Fresh Loaf

This week’s Time and Place photo was shot at 11th and Peachtree Street NE. For me, one of the benefits to living in the city is that the mirrored buildings create living canvases that change dramatically throughout the day. I like this photo because it combines that element of the city with another of my favorites — the workers who dangle fearlessly from buildings while they complete their daily jobs. To me, they are heroic. I also like the multidimensionality of this image — how the reflected building forms one world and the surface of the lines of steel form another dimension. The worker, seemingly walking at the top of the reflected building while touching the sky, forms yet another.

(Photo and text by Joeff Davis)

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While the Beltine mucks through the financial and political bogs holding back its progress, photographer Meryl Truett opens her exhibit Picturing the Beltline this Fri., Oct. 3 at Barbara Archer Gallery.

Truett brings her sleepy Southern aesthetic to a series of photos documenting summer and early fall along the neglected set of tracks that encircles the city.

Artist’s reception Fri., Oct. 17, 7-9 p.m. Through Nov. 1. Free. Thurs.-Fri., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 280 Elizabeth St., #A012. 404-523-1845. www.barbaraarcher.com.

(Photo by Meryl Truett)

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This is a photo of the construction being done on and around the 14th Street bridge, which crosses over I-85. Word is it won’t be done ’til winter 2009. You can get all the info you could ever want on this project here.

(Photo and text by Dustin Chambers)

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This week’s CL YouShoot Flickr photo contest winner is this beauty-from-the-mundane snap of shoes on a wire by Flickr user eye3cee.

There’s a common thread among our winners. We like photos that find beauty in, or cause us to look twice at run-of-the-mill Atlanta things. I’ve seen more sneakers tossed over power lines than I can count. But I don’t think I’ve ever stopped and stared like this photographer did. Next time I will.

Keep submitting photos to our group. There’s another prize next week.

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Normally I try to resist taking a picture of somebody sleeping in the street. Nevertheless, when I pulled into the gas station to buy some gasoline (at $4.09/gallon) and I noticed this guy out of the corner of my eye, it was just too hard to resist. I had just photographed the governor’s Memorial Day service and I had fallen soldiers on my mind. To me this photo is about a guy who works all day in the hot sun, finds a little peace in the shade on his lunch break and is so tired he falls asleep face down on the concrete. There was another guy sitting up eating lunch behind the back tire and another in the passenger seat, but I purposely cropped them out when I framed the photo in hopes of forcing the viewer to create his own narrative.

(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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