redlights and redeyes: desaturate

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redlights and redeyes: desaturate

Sarasota is a circus town. Ever since John Ringling moved the winter headquarters for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to Sarasota in 1927, evidence of his influence is sprinkled across the town – street names, museums, art schools, public statues, and a long list of local circuses and traveling shows that always seem to find their way across the assignment desk.

It was hard for me to rob these photos from the of their obvious, saturated color…alas, I wanted to mix up the moments a bit by shooting a lot tighter and concentrating more on form and texture.