Went for a good, long run yesterday (one of the other ways I'm attempting to remain upright and more or less functional during these rather rough days, have I mentioned that I just found out yesterday that my dog has cancer?). In the course of my pavement pounding I spotted something I wanted to go back to take pictures of later. So after dinner I went out for a walk back to the place I'd spotted, but on the way there noticed instead a nearby house with these scattered, upside-down chairs. The owners had just washed them, I think -- there's a hose in the background, if you look. I only took three shots because I don't know these people and had to walk pretty far onto their lawn to shoot this. But having seen the three I did get, I'm putting up this iPhone shot and then getting dressed and walking back over with plastic camera in hand to see if they are still there.
I do have me something of a white plastic lawn chair fixation. One of the very first exposures I ever made with a Diana, back in 1993, was a church lawn full of these very same white plastic chairs. There have been many others ever since. Maybe it's just because they're everywhere? No, not just that. I do find something visually compelling about them even in their ubiquitous blandness.
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