Form and Function, The Olympic Tug "Eagle," 2009

The New 100 Prints Project — Image #98

One of the great challenges of photography — at least for me — is to create an interesting two-dimensional image of the three-dimensional world. Plop me down in front of an wall or other flat surface and I see photographic potential everywhere, and easily. An object with depth and curves like a propeller fills me with artistic doubt. Knowing this about myself helps, because when I photograph in a highly three-dimensional environment, I slow down and work more carefully to compensate for my lack of natural vision.

The workmen were installing a new drive shaft and propeller in this tug, and I knew it had photographic potential. But while they were working, I would have needed to compose quickly — which simply does not come naturally to me in these situations. I came back the next day, when they were finished, and after forty minutes or so of looking from all different angles, I found this composition.

Print specifications:

• These pigment-on-paper prints are from the folio The New 100 Prints Project to be released in the fall of 2009 after the project is complete.
• In the meantime, individual prints can be purchased one-at-a-time.
• Images are approximately 7x9" on 8x10½" paper.
• As folio prints, there is text below the image that includes the image title and folio title.
• Printed in warm-tone K3 archival Epson inks using an Epson 4880 printer.
• Printed on either Hahnemuhle Photo Rag or Harman Glossy FB AL.
  
• These ummatted prints are shipped enclosed in an archival crystal clear sleeve with backer board.
  
• Packaged flat for shipping.