Detta Johnston Owens shoots the new Trinity Project

I love wall murals and graffiti and am always on the lookout for great backgrounds for photo shoots. I had done my niece's maternity pictures in Trinity Park just last month so the bright colors jumped out at my as I drove through since they weren't there before.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-examiner-talks-to-pro-photog-detta-johnston-owens

 

Here's a photographer I snapped who likes murals in his background:

http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Photography/Miscellanea/i-rPSZjx2/0/X2/2012-06-12-112-X2.jpg

and another photographer that I took a photograph of:

http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Other/Candids/i-zSs2ZzC/0/X2/2012-08-10-1-X2.jpg

and a gallery of my own photos of wall murals:

http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Other/Spray-Can-Art/14787279_g3JCgW

 

I had a bitch with a friend about how local graffiti was often badly
photographed and many of the best works were never shot. Tony's mural
collection is not the last word in fine art photography (and I wouldn't
suggest Tony is claiming it is) but it's a good contribution and I was
thinking of that as inspiration when we had the discussion.

They've been building up a gallery for a while now and have more to shoot
but their collection is going a long way to fill this gap. I think this is
important because it will raise the bar for local news media and provide a
better target than the scruffy scribbles most people who were into creating
graffiti used to do. Everyone wins.

 

I despise graffiti. It is a blight and an insult to the community (not
to mention the damage to property owners and neighbors).

That said, some wall murals are good, but the good ones are art, not
graffiti. I don't see anything at all redeeming about the Trinity
Park graffiti.

 

Although the photograph presents a silhouette of the expecting woman, I would have preferred to see a hint of her facial features. It would have created a better snap, but that’s my take on the snap. Otherwise, I love the S-shape of her body, captured beautifully in this image.