Gotta’ get the dry cleaning, pick up the kids, and then run to the store.
Don’t forget to pay the bills, feed the dogs, put away the laundry, guests are coming for dinner, and damn! I forgot to take the meat out to defrost.
Running late, forgot that file, gotta get back to the office, gotta pick it up, and God oh God I hope I make the meeting on time. If these people would just MOVE! Why won’t these people MOVECAN’TTHEYSEEI’MINARUSH?! Why, today of all days, does my car have to be in the shop?!
Stupid meetings, always running over time. And if I’m late, Tommy’ll be mad, but it’s not my fault people don’t follow rules. And I didn’t yell when he lost the keys. If I could just catch the bus, then maybe it’ll work. But at this time of day there’ll be traffic and it won’t matter if I run.
‘Cuz I’m always running and running, and it never ends, never ends, and why can’t I just get there? There’s always something, always more, and I’m always running, but I can’t ever get on top of it all, and I keep TRYING and TRYING and oh don’t you ever wish, don’t you ever wish…
that you could just…
…just…
…breathe?
For some great captures of motion, head on over to I Should Be Folding Laundry and see what others have come up with for this week’s You Capture challenge!
I love it! Great job!
ha ha – I could totally feel the rush of people in your words! LOVE IT
These are great! Love the colors.
Great storytelling (and photos!)!
I love the transparent guy in black in the 4th one!
oh, i love this!
Awesome post! Were you just set up on a tripod? Great, great idea!
Love these…and how it all ends. Great reminder to S-L-O-W down.
Thanks everyone!
@the animator’s wife: No unfortunately I don’t have a tripod for my wee camera. I just held as still as I could and cropped the excess in Photoshop. The last one I propped up on a precarious pile of purse, water bottle, and jacket.
Wow!! That was pretty AWESOME!
Great story! Great pictures! Awesome job this week!
What a fun series. I’m out of breath from just reading it and looking at the pictures. Very nice!
Fabulous shots! Wow!
Awesome shots and commentary!
I love this concept! Too fun!
I love the photos and the captions! I think my favorite pic was the last one. Great job!
Great job! Love it!
These are awesome! What a great take on the theme! My favorite part of the theme is seeing how others interpret it!
this is outstanding…great job, love the words that go with it!!!
Thanks everyone! I’m so glad the intent came through on this. I had been debating whether or not to submit the photo posted in my previous blog: http://jadekeller.com/2009/08/man-down/ because I think that photo is a little bit better. But I really liked this series conceptually, so I’m very glad to hear others do too! Many thanks for your lovely comments!
Wow what a lovely shopping center.
You did a really great job on the them. Great job!
This is an awesome post. I love it. Very cool.
Great motion series – it looks like you caught a ghost on ‘film’ in the 4th one!! Very clever story line
I love the depth in these pictures! Hope you had time to stop and smell the beautiful flowers!
such an awesome take on this. Great job!
These are great! I love that you can see the motion with the still, brilliant colors in the background.
This is terrific! I love the story-it’s so true!
Oh my gosh that is awesome.
Steph
This is brilliant!! I could actually hear all of those people thinking the things that you wrote. Absolutely amazing!
Love it! Such a unique way to capture life. We really do need to stop and breath more often. Also, that little shopping area looks so quaint and inviting.
Wonderfully done! Where ever it is that you parked yourself to do this series, it just gorgeous!
Wow. Great job capturing motion perfectly! Love this : ) Creativity is so wonderful, isn’t it?
Hey this is an awesome post! I love how you added storytelling to each picture as well! I’m kind of new to photography (even though I love taking pictures) and I take tons, I don’t know a lot about different settings on cameras etc. I was wondering how you made it look like people were disappearing? Does that have to do with the shutterspeed?
Jocelyn,
, I copied and pasted different scenes of people on top of each other, altering the opacity of each layer in Photoshop. I cleaned up the edges around the people so there’s only one background you see. But basically these photos are layers of photos on top of each other. That gives the sense of frantic busyness and the opacity is what really makes them look like they’re disappearing.
Thanks so much! I’m not a super whiz at the camera (though my husband is a pro so I’m lucky to have a resource on hand!), but to make it look like people were disappearing, I did slow the shutter speed way down. That adds a lot of the motion blur to their movements.
But really to make these photos, I set up my camera so it was perfectly still and took a bunch of pictures of people walking. Then, using artistic license
I hope that helps!