it's raining

i was thinking today about photographs of storms. i took this one yesterday as the clouds came in before the storm. it reminds me of ghostbusters which makes me think about the time i spent as a guard at the metropolitan museum of art. sometimes i would go up to the roof garden and look across central park at that building from ghostbusters and all the leaves moving on the treetops. it was kind of magical. i'm tired of all this stale, lifeless photography. there are so many dull straight foreward photographs of this or that. this fad needs to end. it's as if everyone looked at Stephen Shore's early work and said I need to make work just like that. i need to take pictures of what i ate for breakfast and the tv in my motel room. except that when they try it just ends up being painfully boring. maybe i am just feeling this way because these kinds of pictures are everywhere you look. of course i am guilty of making these kinds of photographs too. but here i am denouncing this kind of picture making. i'm just going to make magical pictures of fire from now on.