Sacramento is under a Shelter in Place order from the City and State. We are at the beginning of a new normal for most Americans. Most of my work is people based and has been put on hold for now. In an effort to process this strange feeling I leaned on the creative process to help focus energy away from things that are out of my control. I’ve been following the guidelines laid out by the Governor and Sacramento’s Mayor. My wife and I are staying home and away from people.
I had the idea to use the interval timer on the camera for a different take on this feeling of aimlessness. I’ve been pacing around my house a lot and staring out of different windows. I wondered what it would look like if I wandered around aimlessly through an empty baseball field.
This image is made by setting the camera on a tri-pod and setting the camera to fire once every three seconds for about four minutes. I then processed all the shots to black and white in Lightroom and finally stitched them together in Photoshop. Not all shots were included because there was a ton of overlapping images. So when I was choosing which shots to use in the final I was careful not to include any that were distracting.
It felt great to work on a new idea, not for a client, and not really for any other purpose but to create something.
