- The Good Men Project

July 13, 2012 by Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

I took these photographs over the past couple days while sitting in a Starbuck’s café which is located on the second floor of the Harris Teeter on Old Georgetown Road, I think, in Rockville Maryland USA. I stole all the shots. I kept my camera hidden behind my laptop which was on the table before me. I put my coffee cup about an inch away from the side of my computer, and when I saw something interesting, I snuck the camera lense into the little opening which I had made and discreetly clicked. The blurs in the pictures are caused mostly by the table on which I rested the camera. There was also the issue of working with low light. If you do not or cannot keep the camera real steady for a pretty long time when photographing in low light, you get some blur. I try to use the blurs for, you know, whatever: Call it poetic effect. As for the grays versus the colors: I have no explanation, only intuition.

About Tim Ruane

Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.