Project 6 Proposal

 Final Project Proposal:

For this project, I would like to capture the minutiae of rock climbing in a bouldering gym. Everyone knows what climbing looks like from a wide angle- people scaling either great cliff faces or complex problems made of colored holds in a gym. For this project, I want to photograph the trivial details of climbing. The wear on the climbing shoes, the chalk on the hands, the grit on the holds. To show everyday people what avid climbers come to notice as mundane, even though those things can also be beautiful. 

Shot list:

Climbing shoes

Chalk bag

Climbing holds

Hands with chalk

Hands on holds

Feet on holds

Chalk prints

Backup Project Proposal:

For my second proposal, I would photograph the process of cutting the extreme weeds in my backyard. The weeds reach waist high, and the tools to be used are crude at best, nothing battery or engine powered. This process could be seen as old-fashioned, menial, and boring, but to the trained eye there is beauty in the existence, the cutting, and the lack of something once you know what once stood in its place. 

Shot list:

Weeds from different angles

Scythe used to cut weeds

Clippers used to cut weeds

Tools cutting weeds

Weeds after being cut down