Dave Foss

Writing stuff for things like this is like having root canal for me. I seem to ramble, and without someone to keep me on track I just run amok. You might say I “lack focus.” I guess that\'s because I see things differently. I believe I learned to re-focus my vision during one particular family car trip when I was a kid. My dad looked out the window and said, “That’s an odd place to hang a bicycle.” Well, I looked all over the place – high, low, left, right, near, and far – and I couldn\'t find that bicycle anywhere! Finally, I gave up and asked, “Where? I don\'t see it.” He said there was no bicycle, \"But that WOULD be an odd place to hang one.\" To this day (50+ years later) I look around and think, \"That’s an odd place to shoot a nude.” I have re-worded my dad’s observation a bit from the original. Some people call my type of photography \"Guerrilla Photography\" because we \"Shoot and run!\" However, at my age it\'s more like, \"Shoot and walk away slowly – then go back and get the camera bag that I forgot.\" I think of my work as \"Serendipitous Photography\"; I try to compose each image to maximize the visual impact of the elements present: light and shadow, location, objects, and, of course, the model, who is the magic element that makes the inanimate objects come to life.