Tamagini Design Blog » From the Blog of Photographer Jeff Tamagini

Well where do I begin with this one. This isnt a picture, or is it? Over the last couple of weeks I have been eyes deep in creating an awards submission for a project at my office. I was in charge of the entire design layout of the presentation while others wrote the copy for it. Everything went great I was in the zone the whole time. My first idea for the theme of the project was met with it’s great lets roll with it which never happens in design EVER! Last Friday I had all the design work done, when I came in on Tuesday (Monday was a holiday) all I had to do was wait for the final copy to come in and put it in the layout.

Thats when it started. For the many that probably don’t know, I am dyslexic. It was acting up big time, and I am not a just mix up the occasional letter or word, I mix up lots of things letters, words, colors, I will read something and shift around entire paragraphs. It is just how my mind works, at times it’s a struggle, and this week it was that struggle. With no set deadlines and nothing really pressing, my concentration got lax, my mind started to wander, I just couldn’t get things in order.

Then came yesterday afternoon, I had spaced out for a couple minutes after reading an article in some trade mag when all of a sudden my mind started seeing all these colors and shapes and I decided to snap out of it by getting it down on “paper”. The “paper” was my iPad and I used Sketchbook Pro. What resulted is what you see here, I sketched dozens and dozens of starting lines only to clear the layer and start again. Then it hit me and what you see is what I was “seeing” at the moment a sort of organic set of colors and shapes all interacting with one another.

I think what drew me to photography at an early age and why I still love it so much is that I can see things in the everyday world that most people never even notice. When I shove my eye into the viewfinder of my DSLR it turns into a microscope for me and the world is just molecule that I am examining piece by piece.