This past Saturday night I trekked to a park along the Charles River to take long exposure photos with a manual flash. I looked forward to combining light trails with objects frozen by the strobe’s light, but my manual flash had other ideas.
After refusing to fire for 15 minutes, I was ready to pack my bag and head home empty handed, but a nearby parking lot offered salvation.
A combination of puddles, pieces of garbage, and the reflections of street lamps offered a unique opportunity to craft a story around litter.
The glow of street lamps floated into the parking lot on a wave of light. Dark shores washed up a green rag weathered by wind and water. Elsewhere, two plastic lids lay exposed, with just a single coffee cup able to lay claim to one of them.
A wrinkled and dirty napkin stood on its side, the victim of sticky fingers which had just grubbed through a bag of M&M’s. Little sticky fingers that is, whose young owner had outgrown a once treasured blue gem.