The original capture here was so flawed that I pretty much decided to just toss that badboy out with the bathwater. The only reason I share it with you today is that I think it has good bones. The geometry and texture of this space are scrumptious. A Year Ago: Subtle I’ve opined before that…
Tag Archive: black & white
Inconsolable
A difficult day for some of those I love. It can be hard work to see something beautiful in the darkness. A Year Ago: Hipsters I went out into the mid-80s weather to photograph people… [read more]
A Walk in the Woods
You cannot imagine how many versions of this picture I went through before settling on this one. (Sometimes I truly believe I’m a maniac and should be medicated.) I’m not at all clear on why I kept persisting, despite ample evidence indicating that I was never going to get what I wanted from it. I’ll…
Color Choice
One of the best ways to learn from your own photography is to look at most of your images in both color and black-and-white. Even pictures that you took explicitly because of their color content can teach you something useful about relative light and dark values and abstract elements of composition when viewed in black-and-white….
The White Picket Fence
Apparently I can’t get enough of these things, and I tend to like them in black-and-white. This is another iPhone grab from our stroll around Annapolis. But maybe I should have left it in color. What do you think? A Year Ago: Font I love, love, love this lens: look at the gorgeosity (not a…
Texture Riot
I spent a lovely day-and-a-bit with dear friend Barry (and family). Much of the time Barry and I discussed aesthetics, cameras and their uses, and ways to develop one’s own eye. I decided to use only my iPhone’s camera on this trip, so as to concentrate on the challenges of image-making rather than relative superiority…
Disorder
Life is like this, sometimes. Even when considered with the most dispassionate, analytical eye, one must admit that a certain degree of chaos—of entropy—is endemic. Things may make sense locally, for awhile, but the big picture is (and may always be) a mess. How can we live with this? There is only one way: we…
Big Gun
When I think of the wealth of human ingenuity that has been invested in the machinery of war, I am appalled. And yet I also find myself feeling vaguely optimistic. Why? Because I believe that, slowly—too slowly, to be sure—but nonetheless surely, war is losing its appeal as a way of exerting power and influence….
The Thinker
This is another of the pictures that I took at the Albuquerque Zoo which reinforces my belief that gorillas are people like us. On this gorilla’s face I see an expression of deliberation, a weighing of mental options—I believe she is actively considering something. Check out how her right toes are curled under; the thoughts…
Late Afternoon, Albuquerque
My first attempts with this image involved preserving the ultra-blue of the sky and trying to boost the yellows, reds, and greens of the foliage and earth. I ended up with a nice-enough photograph, but one that said nothing, that aroused no lingering interest in me. On a whim, and mostly just because I felt…