>>3972323>It's distracting because it pulls the eye to a part of the image that adds nothing to it.It's actually intentional. Cranking the shutter speed up to create the crunchy background was my way of portraying the chill of winter.
You're also not picking up on the broader themes of my work, which are very much about my family's history, which is not calm and smooth like idealized bokeh would portray.
Perhaps I should clue you in on all of the other things that you'd never believe to be intentional;
>>3971318>>3971319This succession of frames clues you in that I'm focusing on my Choctaw-adjacent history, its a zoom sequence
>>3971388This is both an upside down cloud-flag, mirroring my OP post, and a stand-in for the sacred pole of the Choctaw/Chickasaw migration legend, which guided the people first to the East Coast, and then back slightly west to safer land. Note the eagle is pointing frame-right.
>>3971324And here the shadow of the powerline represents the movement back west.
>>3971325>>3971326This sequence loosely hints at movement west (that's the rising sun; you won't see fog like that at sunset)
The reality of course was walking on foot, not the luxury of a train car.
>>3971339>>3971340an inversion of the White Dog (watch Te Ata on Netflix if you don't know about this)
>>3971348>>3971354"Check Sheol"
>>3971354>>3971355>>3971358>>3971360Now we're at Moundville, a mortuary city that's currently involved in NAGPRA litigation. 6000 people from this graveyard-city are currently in indefinite storage and NAGPRA seeks to repatriate them and open the path to also burying those who died on the trail of tears here, to try to right some wrongs.
>>3971361>>3971364>>3971365Is this your Utopia?
Blame it on my ego, but I don't mind being called egoic; my photography is for people who actually have enough personality to find engagement in the banality of folklore and story. This ain't art for your TikTok attention span, zoomzoom.
