2024

Industrial portraits

Micro Four-Thirds /

So you have 5 minutes between running to get presents for the dog and cat and hurrying home to make baked goods for the holidays. AND you forgot your camera. But it snowed 2” and was pretty. But now it really mostly melted so there’s only a tiny bit left. So I pulled out my trusty iPhone and found a few photos. The first one from a local industrial building. The address is 544, LOL. I thought the echos of the numbers between the door front and the mailbox was pretty neat, as was the orange color. Maybe not a […]

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Beach Pinhole

Film - Ilford, Pinhole /

You go to the beach and try to find a little time away from your family. Pinhole photography and the super portable setup you can have from such a kit is perfect. I brought my RSS 6×6 camera with Kentmere 100 film and a little table-top tripod. Lovely, start compositions abound on an early morning beach. The exposures outside were around 1-2 seconds, as I remember it. Permanent beach umbrella, before the summer beach-goers have arrived. Unmanned lifeguard stand. It says Lifeguard On Duty, but they lied. A pair of children’s teal blue/green Crocs water shoes. I should have shot

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ICM Multi-Exposure in Boston

Abstract, ICM /

I’ve tried my hand at ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) for the past year or so and I see the attraction. If you work hard enough, you can get great images, especially when the subject is colorful. This image is probably my favorite of the one image ICM photos I took this year. I paused during the exposure a couple of times, so you see duplication of the fence at the beach BUT….I saw people taking images with in-camera multiple exposure mid year and fell in love with the results. While I love the one-shot, pure ICM images, I longed for

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Canon P and a 24mm at the Pond

Film /

So you’re out on an errand on a Saturday with no time to really spend, but you have a film camera with tilm in it and you start looking for a place to take a photo. It was still winter when I took these and I had a 1959 Canon P with the wonderful Chroma 24mm f/11 fixed focus fixed aperture lens. I took a bunch of photos with my favorite Kodak 5222 Double-X and developed it in HC110….actually Legacy Pro LC-110….in Dilution B. The sharpness of this lens is really good, but you do have to have decent light.

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Locked Up

Abstract, Micro Four-Thirds /

One more image from my work on the road paving equipment a few weeks ago. This a wonderful red chain with a black, shadowed background. Nothing earth shattering. I kind of wished I had worked this subject a bit more, as there may have been a few more compositions……but alas, it’s long gone, off to another street Olympus EM-1 12-40/2.8

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5 Frame Study – Concrete Hut

Abstract, Micro Four-Thirds /

This concrete hut sits on Diamond Hill Road in Scotch Plains NJ right beside a little creek. If you pull over on the busy road, the plaque says something about this being a creek water level monitoring station. It’s pretty beat up these days with multiple layers of paint, graffiti, etc and seemed like a good subject if I was willing to risk a little to dash across the busy 2-lane road. The green is a nice color and there is nice pink graffiti in the background on the 2nd photo. I should go back and like this, make sure

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Trashcan Beauty

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This is really an unusual photo and one that not everyone likes. Why? I think because they figure out what it is pretty quickly, and they don’t like it. I found this bounty of red and yellow at the bottom of a local campground/city park trash can. It is of course, a bunch of McDonald’s trash. But at least it didn’t end up on the ground, but where it belonged after use. The round symmetry and the red forms are really great to me. I hope you like it. Olympus EM1.2 12j-40/2.8…….as usual

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Red and Yellow Pavers

Abstract, Construction Equipment, Micro Four-Thirds /

They were paving my street a few weeks ago and on Saturday/Sunday the paving equipment was sitting around, waiting for the Monday crew to use it to actually pave the street. I went out there and there were lots of red, yellow, orange, and asphalt. While not a typical subject, I love the bright colors, hard lines, and interesting contrasts. It also often is great in direct sunlight, unlike many other more typical subjects. These all with my trusty Olympus E-M1 Mk 2 and 12-40/2.8

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Industrial Still Life

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The more and more that I hunt for colorful, rusty, industrial details, the more I find. I find them much more satisfying than the beauty of flowers and they don’t move or blow in the wind, which is a big plus. These taken with a combination of my iPhone and my trusty Olympus E-M1.2 with the 12-40/2.8 First three: In rural FL around Bradenton, I found an unfinished development on a street some 1/4 mile long. The first three photos were details of a piece of water management piping, not installed yet. The rusty bolt in particular was a great

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