Walk around urban scenes and it’s amazing what you can find. Early in the morning gives you more options, as the shadows are longer. These are just a sampling of what you can find from subjects as mundane as stair and railings. I really loved the way the shadows fell on the stairs in these image and you can see how walking around the subjects yields great photos. Nothing special, just observational photography
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Very old cemeteries are beginning to appeal to me more and more. I think you can make lovely photos in cemeteries, but the older ones, with overarching trees, offer lots of photo opportunities. The sterility of modern, giant fields of headstones don’t do it for me. But the very old ones, which can be tough to find, are great. As for technique, my current favorites are pinhole and black-and-white Infrared. These photos are all pinhole taken on a Reality-so-Subtle 6×6 camera with Kentmere100 film. I am increasingly using this film, as it has good tonality, decent reciprocity curves, and a
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Abstracts, or at lest abstract-oriented photos, are always appealing to photographers who aspire to be artists. Those of us who are incompetent at a physical art form like painting or drawing see photography as a way to find appealing, sensuous images. For me, i have always loved to find lovely images from otherwise mundane objects and scenes. While the allure of the National Park “STAND HERE FOR BEST PHOTO” way of making photos appeals to many, it’s not me. These two images show what you can find if you just look up. They are of the support beams for a
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Something new this time, sprocket photos with color film. These were shot on my Lomo LCA120, which is great for sprockets because it has wind-on advance vs back-window frame numbers. These are a mixed bag of photos, but I think that the first one, the greenhouse door, is my favorite. I should back up a little on these photos to move the subject inside the sprockets. The film also, Gold 200, should have been rated at 125 or 160 to overexpose a little. The negatives were a little thing and hightlights bloomed more that I would have liked, especially on
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Half-frame cameras were a “thing” back in the mid 60’s. These cameras shoot vertically-oriented frames that are half of a 35mm frame: 24mm x 18mm. The Japanese market loved these lovely, simple, lightweight, small cameras and they were heavily marketed as a way to save film or as a camera for women. I have a Canon Demi EE17 that has had an overhaul and is in great shape. It sports a wonderful f/1.7 lens and aperture-preferred automation. It does not have a rangefinder, but I’m pretty good at scale focusing. The only problem with half-frame is that it can take
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You walk around a town like Princeton NJ on the way to a somewhat formal architecture photo shoot and come upon a red painted dumpster. Walking around yielded these great images, at least to me. The first reminded me of a flowing red river, the second like some sort of snake-like creature rising out of the mud on an alien world. While going around a normal, red dumpster can really reap photographic benefits if you spend 5-10 minutes. Of course, this assumes you enjoy these sorts of photos and enjoy looking odd. This brings me to another point that nobody
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Trash Cans So I’ve thought about this project, but it’s not an easy one. I think that during my travels, I will try to find interesting trash cans to photograph. The first photo is one of my favorites with the wonderful colors and circular symmetry. Most people don’t know what it is until they think a bit and some are disgusted. Some are interested. Some are…..well, just “It’s a trash can”. Yes, they’re right of course.
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In the dead of winter, a lovely rain with no leaves on the trees can be taken advantage of in an urban environment. This was on New Years Day morning, so the streets and parking lots were empty and had lots of water. The clouds were interesting and the black backgrounds really accentuated the reflections.
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Nothing Unique, but I do love to hunt around to find little geometric objects on the sides of buildings. This set of four is typical 1. Some sort of approval badges on a huge metal power pole.2. A telephone switch that someone decided needed to be the same color as the building, LOL3. A hidden light switch4. Number 20
. As lovely as the little village of Apalachicola, FL is, the edges continue to crumble and fail. There are glimmers of progress in this lovely little town, but the outskirts, and there aren’t many when you only have 2,000 people, are full of crumbling riverfront property. Yea, I know it’s the same old photogphers’ penchant for old stuff, but it’s still interesting.
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Not your normal sunrise photos. I’m not a real fan of most sunrise or sunset photos because they usually just don’t look near as good in an image as in real life. These photos were a couple of days apart in Apalachicola FL taken in the winter. The sky just lit up on both days and I just had to shoot them. The first one was a stich of two photos with a long lens and the glow was so perfect that there is no way to accurately depict it here. It was super nice. The second photo was a
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Memories and remnants of a local dry cleaning plant, now closed after more than 100 years in business. Nobody wanted to take it over, so not it sits ready for “redevelopment”, which means an apartment building with ground-floor retail probably. I wish I could get inside, but that isn’t happening, far too much liability. The frosted windows are lovely, with their pressed-in starburst patterns. Obviously this was done when the glass was hot, a long forgotten process, probably. The subtle greens of the window stanchions was a lovely contrast with the glass. I loved the undefined, orange shape behind the
