MOVING PANORAMAS
I took my first moving panorama with an iPhone 5 from a bus seat traveling between Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania. It fractured the landscape. I’ve found that my various cameras handle the panorama process differently. My Lumix GX8 creates a smoother image, more “life like” whereas the iPhones create a unique repetition of distant objects and a truncation of closer ones. And then some images, like the one of the Saudi desert, are very flowing. I find these moving panoramas change smooth everyday life from a set image to a process with both distinct and conflated edges, with truncated and repetitive aspects bumping into one another. I like their comment on nature and community, on construction and culture. I like that they make me look twice. Clicking on the image will enlarge it.
Bahrain National Day lights on palm trees just past the roundabout on road 4203 from my friend’s car
On the road to the Tree of Life in the southern part of Bahrain from a colleague’s car
Military housing from Shaik Khalifa bin Salman Highway from the window of my driver’s car, Bahrain
Billboard between Union Mall and Mo Chit BTS Station from the BTS local train, Bangkok
Lotus pond west of Bangkok towards Nakhon Pathom from a rowed boat
Town between Shanghai and Hangzhou, China from the high speed train
Cattle along Highway 11 between Svay Antur and Prey Veng, Cambodia from the back of an SUV
Myanmar border town from a 12 seat van
A Pudong, China highway from the high speed train
Between London and Coventry, Britain from the commuter train
Ari Station, Bangkok, Thailand from the local BTS train
A Seoul, South Korea highway from the airport bus
Desert between Riyadh and Hofuf, Saudi Arabia from the family car on the train