honorable mention
Michael W. Ellison united states
title
Carnival and County Fair Rides
Purchasing my first 35mm camera during a combat tour in Vietnam I began my love of creating images. After a stint in the Marines, I enrolled in the photography program at Randolph Community College and later completed a Bachelor of Business Degree at Montreat College.
As a visual artist, I find the act of creating photographs an electrifying experience. My goal is to capture the world as I see it and share that vision with the world.
I enjoy working from a straightforward point of view, relying on the simplest elements of lighting, composition, and treatment of the subjects I photograph. Long before I click the shutter on the camera, I have pre-visualized how the image will be viewed and what my observations are.
One of my goals is to challenge the viewer to appreciate the details in life by presenting the image of the world in straightforward manner.
Some people are surprised to learn that I ride a Harley-Davidson Road King Classic. I tell them it gives me a better view of the world than riding in a car with the windows rolled up.
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entry description
The images in this portfolio were taken at two different locations in the spring and summer of 2012 in Savannah, Georgia. The images of the Ferris Wheel and Tilt-A-Wheel #2 were created at a family-run carnival with a small town feeling. Tilt-A-Wheel #3, Whirl-A-Ride #2, and YOYO #1, were at the Chatham County Fair, which was more polished and businesslike in its operation. For some time I had been fascinated with the concept of an extended moment in photography. I had been doing lots of diptychs and triptychs, and wanted to explore the results using a Neutral Density Filter as a method to extend the moment of a single image. I had seen lots of images by other photographers of extended moments of ocean and water scenes, but I wanted to try something I had not seen before. All of the images in this submission were shot using a B+W ND 10 filter which, in some cases, gave me a four-minute exposure. Having a four-minute exposure accomplished my task of extending a moment in a single photograph.about the photographer
I grew up in post-war Charlotte, North Carolina, the fourth child in a working class family who loved going to the movies, watching a new invention called television, and attending school-sponsored field trips to our local symphony, all of which sparked my interest in the visual arts.Purchasing my first 35mm camera during a combat tour in Vietnam I began my love of creating images. After a stint in the Marines, I enrolled in the photography program at Randolph Community College and later completed a Bachelor of Business Degree at Montreat College.
As a visual artist, I find the act of creating photographs an electrifying experience. My goal is to capture the world as I see it and share that vision with the world.
I enjoy working from a straightforward point of view, relying on the simplest elements of lighting, composition, and treatment of the subjects I photograph. Long before I click the shutter on the camera, I have pre-visualized how the image will be viewed and what my observations are.
One of my goals is to challenge the viewer to appreciate the details in life by presenting the image of the world in straightforward manner.
Some people are surprised to learn that I ride a Harley-Davidson Road King Classic. I tell them it gives me a better view of the world than riding in a car with the windows rolled up.
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