My first-ever STILL photo

In recognition of my announcement yesterday about pre-orders now being available for STILL: The Art of Noticing, I am posting the first ever STILL photo I ever made. I was in southern France, and was toying with the idea of doing a self-imposed one-a-day, one-year creative challenge.  I considered a lot of different options (e.g a-collage-a-day, a-pattern-a-day, a-collection-a-day…). But when I saw this image through my viewfinder, I knew I had found my answer: found nature, daily, on a plain background, photographed in natural light, with a simple and graphic treatment. That was thirteen years ago. Some days, seemingly insignificant at the time, can send your life in a whole new direction. The thing about these inflection points, is that you do not even know that your life just changed direction (that is how they differ from major medical events, for example). It took me maybe two or three years into doing STILL that I realized how monumental that quiet afternoon in southern France was.

wild teasel (Dipsacus)