Graveyard Portraits – Pinhole and Digital

Film, Pinhole /

Near Covington Ga, my family has owned a large plat of land for about 50 years. On that land is a 19th/20th century cemetery founded by the Cook family. There are about 30-40 graves there from the mid 1800’s to the early 1900’s. There are only a few well preserved and many of the larger stones have been either knocked down intentionally or fallen down of their own accord. There are mature trees on the site. There is a 5×5 stone pillered fence with very old, flat twisted barbed wire around it through holes drilled in the fence posts. I […]

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Construction Art

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I have become attracted to something I don’t think many people pay attention to, construction equipment. My family was in the contracting, land development, and building materials industry for all of my childhood. So I was around lots of big equipment, Dozers, Excacators, Frone-End tracked loaders, Lifts, Tractors, Back-Hoes, etc. I have taken to stopping whenever I have time at random construction pieces, almost always between jobs or parked on a weekend. The yellow, orange, or other bright colors are really irresistible to me. Where else can you find such bright colors, strong lines, graphs, geometric shapes, or bold lettering?

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The Lone Palm

Minimalism /

So you’re driving around rural, central Florida hunting for photographs in the middle of the day. It’s hot, the shadows are harsh. There almost nothing out there. But I see this lone palm tree on a random road in Bradenton, FL. There are trucks whizzing by. I stop on the side of the road and take this photo. One lone palm tree in front of a pasture. I break rules – NO “rule of thirds”. – I put the subject right smack in the middle (but I do plan to crop this square). – I shoot in the harsh light

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Nighttime church

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In Orlando for the Olympic Trials Marathon and of course, I have some camera with me at all times. We were on the roof of the hotel and it was just after sunset. We looked over the wall and this church was all lit up. I didn’t have a “real” camera, but I did have my phone, an iPhone 14 Pro. Took this as the light was vanishing with care to get it sharp. It was very nice in color, but I thought better in BW, so BW it is. The church is the First United Methodist Church in downtown

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Electric White

Minimalism /

You’re walking around suddenly something catches your eye. For me, it is often electrical boxes. I know that sounds mundane, but I find the asymmetry appealing as subjects. This one in Covington, GA struck me with its off-white color, but there was that little touch of blue on the tags that was nice. I think that they painted everything to match, including the connection box and the wires, which added to the scene. I had to give it a little extra exposure, maybe 1 stop to make it right, as the in-camera meter would have made everything gray.

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Pinhole in color

Pinhole /

Color photography with my Reality So Subtle 6×6 pinhole. 20mm, super-wide focal length. The first one is a familiar subject that I’ve come to like, a piece of construction equipment. They offer such bright yellow, red, and orange colors that it hard to ignore them. I will probably put together a gallery and try to start taking more. The second one of an old chimney from the Porterdale Mills in Porterdale, GA, a now defunct textile mill just west of Covington, GA. Time has passed the old mill town by now, which it’s copious numbers of mill houses. The old

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Master Lock Trio

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Always interesting, Locks are a great subject. I think this will be a regular feature of my work and I’ll start hunting for interesting locks. These three are all Master Locks, but that’s just how it worked out. All shot with the Olympus E-M1 and my trusty 12-40/2.8

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Electric Reflections

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Reflections at night from a couple of signs and car taillights. This one in Boston, but these photos are not hard to find, but you have to be there at the right time of night were there are interesting reflections, wait until during or after the rain, and position yourself appropriately. I love it.

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Great Hair with a 6×17 pinhole beast

Panorama, Pinhole /

I was walking around a local park and had my Reality So Subtle 6x17cm camera. It’s a super high quality pinhole camera that shoots super wide images with a curved film plane. It’s not a swing-lens camera, but the pinhole covers it all. There is a tiny bit of vignetting, but not a lot. I found this nice lady sitting on a park bench next to the lake and asked her if I could take her photo from behind, because I loved her hair. I really like the picture. As far as focus, I was a little too close. You

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Black and Rust

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These two images represent different views of the same window in the Back-Bay section of Boston. Obviously it was painted black, but there was nice orange rust poking through. I should probably go back in my archives and see if there is another photo to provide a third All taken with the Olympus E-M1 Mk II and the 12-40/2.8

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Nighttime Boston

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You’ve got to love the iPhone. This photo was just a grab when I was out in the rain in Boston. The exposure for such a tricky scene was just handled. There used to be another building on the left, but Photoshop’s magic Generative Fill eliminated it. I love the subtle colors, the contrast of old and new architecture, the moody sky. I thought should it be BW, but I kind of like the yellow windows on the older building

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