Running Girls

'Running Girls' - 1986                                                                                                                                                        snake

Stand Hunting.  A bowhunter scouts territory, whether in forests, farm or swamp land or even suburban tracks dotted with fields and wood plots, for the purpose of discovering the movement routes of the whitetail deer.   Once the travel corridors of the deer are established, the bowhunter will find a position for his ‘stand’. Choosing either a tree stand, which is perched about 20 feet above ground or a ground blind, which is camouflaged within the surroundings, a bowhunter will wait in ambush for their prey to come within range. The objective is to secure a quick and humane kill so the bowhunter looks for the prey to offer a shot whereby an arrow can pass cleanly through the deer’s vital area.

The full-frame photographer behaves in a similar fashion.  For instance, a photographer searching a cityscape, might perch themself where different elements (a parking meter,  an empty alley, converging brick walls) work as elements of composition within the viewfinder.  The artist sits and waits, in ambush, for someone or something, to walk through the composition that is framed.  When all the elements come together in a moment in time, the shutter is pressed, capturing the shot and paralleling the motion of the arrow, leaving the bow and hitting its mark.