Personal Project

    For the personal project I have chosen to photograph benches. Benches are not just a place to sit. They tell a story. Benches show age, use, abuse, or neglect. Some people use benches for show and others actually use them. They are at lunch tables, in gardens, and on the sides of walkways and some rock, stay still, sway or swing. They are made out of many different materials and can be photographed differently.
   
    Benches all tell different stories depending on their uses. A wood bench left outside through out the seasons is going to tell a different story and photograph differently than a bench that has been kept inside. A bench in a church is going to tell a different story than a bench in the park or a bench where the wood has grayed and the metal is pitted. Sometimes the most interesting bench are the ones that are barely there where the wood is rotted away and only the iron sides are left.