Playing around with Panoramic Photography: Images across America
La Jolla Sunset (San Diego)
Here you’ll find my recent explorations of panoramic photography over the past year, taken with the camera on my Galaxy S-9 phone. I’m fascinated by the way the format seems to warp space, and by how you can photograph two images of the same thing (or persons) at slightly different times. Furthermore, stacking such images together, which I do in a Google Doc and then take screenshots of the images so they will import as one unit into my blog, gives a tremendous amount of visual information. This process I find useful for my poetry: while taking the images in the Athenaeum of the “Splinter in the Eye” exhibition by Carlos Castro Arias, I happened to read the wall text which mentioned Junipero Serra, the Franciscan priest who established missionaries up and down the California coast. Serra was one of Arias’ subjects: you see a bust of his head in a birdbath in a piece titled, “Sometimes Doing Nothing is the Best Thing to Do” which recalls the George Floyd protests of 2020 in which several statues of Serra were toppled, after the priest was singled out for being a colonizer.
Athenaeum Music and Art Library in La Jolla California: “Splinter in the Eye” exhibition by Carlos Castro Arias
Cuyahoga River Valley National Park, Ohio
Barrio Logan and Tijuana River Valley Regional Park along Mexican Border, California
Tecate, California and Tecate, Baja California, Mexico
Images from La Jolla California: Home; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Cove, La Jolla Village
Indianapolis (top 3 images), Bloomington (image 4-8), and Carmel, Indiana ½ hour before eclipse.
Tecate, Baja California, Day of the Dead
Border between US and Mexico from Tijuana River Valley
Panoramic images from top to bottom: Playas de Tijuana;; Migrant aid station run by American Friends Service Committee on secondary border fence in South San Diego, bordering Tijuana; Day of Dead in Tecate, Baja, Migrant camp near Jacumba, California, US-Mexico border fence south of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, near Lukeville, Arizona.; Museo de Art de Ciudad Juarez and grounds, Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico; Overlooking the Rio Grande in PIedras Negras, Coahuila into Eagle Pass, Texas; On the road near border west of Brownsville, Texas; Rio Grande from Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge grounds; SpaceX rocket on launchpad at Boca Chica Beach, Texas.
