Urban

Walk around, look, think. Photos will present themselves, in my experience. This set of photos was just inside an open air stairwell that went down to some sort of exhibition hall at Princeton University in NJ. They were the most mundane of subjects, stairwell lights. The stripes resulting from water raining down and dripping down the stone was lovely. And the lights, with their yellow colors contrasted with the blue-gray color of the light shrouds. There were options as well to include the railings, which provided a nice offset to the lights. PBWA – Photography by Walking Around. IT WORKS!

I love driving around early on a Sunday morning to hunt for subjects. There isn’t much traffic, and you see the results of the previous week. These photos were from such a morning near to my home in Westfield, NJ. The skeleton was hanging out behind a store, obviously having been used for a Halloween decoration. I loved both the more documentary-type photo as the more close-up version. While these photos are all Olympus EM-1 digital photos, it would probably have been great if I had taken my pinhole camera and got about 3-4” from the skeleton’s face. The other

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.