Casondra's Adventures: 2014

October 25, 2014: Big Sur with Julie

All images copyright Casondra Sobieralski

I was going to completely scrap all but 2 of my Big Sur photos from this year. They all seemed so terrible. "How can I go to one of the most beautiful, e x p a n s i v e places on Earth and take such crappy pictures? How can I go to a place so full of super special memories of joy and growth and take such sharp, jagged, tense, trapped-feeling, sad images?" I wondered.

But then I thought about how terrible I FELT that day. And I started to see how I felt INSIDE was really coming through in my pictures.

So maybe, just maybe, instead of creating beautiful images, I actually created Art that day. Like, self expression despite my Self.

As an experiment, I offer these "terrible photographs" up for you to decide, and I added some titles to shade them.

When Condors Are Out, the Condors Like It Here [the EMI Records House]

This is Not a Condor

The Edge of Something

Poke

Crash

Pointy

Dividing Line

Sharp

An Angel Once Stood Here

Where Did the Key Go?

Condor Rock Protected a Treasure, 15-32-45

Good Night Condor

The End, Rest in Peace

October 11, 2014: Moss Beach Tide Pools (near Pacifica) with Julie

We got a late start and had literally 5 minutes at this tide pool. But here is a momento...

October 5, 2014: Ohlone Gathering in Coyote Hills East Bay Regional Park, Fremont with Kelly, Angela & Leticia

On this day it became blazingly obvious to me that I am better at photographing still things rather than moving people...

These are photographs of traditional Ohlone dances.

We got to try acorn mush, a staple for California Indians. I really liked it. It tasted like a nutty Farina cereal, as I mentioned in an earlier post about Indian Grinding Rock State Park.