Peter Parker

My boyfriend and I spend a lot of time in the car, and with my vow to take and post a new photo every day, he’s gotten used to being in the middle of a conversation with me—one or the other of us talking—and hearing me shout out, “Stop!” I think he’s almost gotten to the point where he starts to hit the brakes before I purse my lips to say the p. Today was one of those days, and the result is the photo you see below. I think all the adults were inside watching the Super Bowl, and there were just a few kids in the yard. I learned from one of them—a boy, maybe six years old?—that it was his birthday and that his cousin’s birthday is in eight days. That’s why they have Spider-Man in their yard.

Copyright © 2007 Liz Kuball

Next weekend, I’m taking a two-day course at The Julia Dean Photo Workshops in Venice. And that week is also the start of a six-month workshop I’m taking there called “The Long-Term Project”—that’s the one I’m really eager for. I have a couple different project ideas, but the one I think I’ll start with involves the Los Angeles County line. I don’t know that I can articulate my plan just yet—I’m still thinking and researching and figuring out why I’m drawn to this in the first place—but I think it’ll have something to do with following the county line from where it starts just west of Malibu all the way up past Santa Clarita, east through the Antelope Valley near where David Hockney did his Pearblossom Hwy., and then down past Disneyland and toward the beach again.

This will be my first long-term project, so I’m not sure how it’ll play out. I’m assuming (and hoping!) that the project will evolve as I get into it, and that when I start I can’t possibly know what I’ll find. I’ll still post daily photos to my blog, but I’m sure you’ll start seeing some from this project instead of just the one-offs I’ve been posting so far. So stay tuned. It should be fun!