1. Daniel Shea seems to prefer his photos be in their natural hue to capture their real-life visuals. Sometimes, he adds filters to convey a different time period by manipulating the color balance and noise of the subjects he takes. A few of his works are formatted in a side-by-side panel-like format, while most are stand-alone vertical-framed photos of industrial scenes in an abstract light.
2. The first photo shows two separate pictures. One of broken glass and one of a bent water reflection of an electrical road pole. The glass seems to have warm tone versus the cold tone of the pole, and both share an element of distortion. The second photo is of the side of a brick building with painted-on windows for a pleasing decoration that matches well with the building entirely. The sun is hitting on the focal point of the picture, eventually letting people realize that the windows are in fact two dimensional. The third photo shows a plain, flat brick wall with faded or painted-over white bricks spelling the words "Why Not Now?". Shea's representation of everyday landscapes and industrial sites show through with varying abstract and questioning material. It makes people look at our everyday surroundings a little differently than before.
3. Daniel Shea's photos grabbed my interest almost immediately. The second photo specifically was captured in a way that seemed the paintings on the side of the building were nearly real. Shea's photo collections seem to all come together to showing nature, society, and our inventions in a different light. Some things in our cities go unnoticed, regular photos of people aren't considered anything unique, and something as simple as putting a picture of broken glass and a electrical pole together could create something more. Shea captures these unnoticed things hidden within an industrial jungle, and seems to carefully put two subjects together for certain reasons in his paneled photos. His exploration into these subject matters is something kind of meaningful and enlightening to me.
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