This was taken on the LX Tour.  

144 protraits in 25 minutes with a chorus of “Rawhide” playing in the background.  We had to do something because of the rain.  Thanks to everyone at dinner 8/27/08 at Penland.

What started as a lark ended up as a minor obsession; one friend thought there were 98 too many.  I give you “99 KJs“.  Position 4E is me and Keith Johnson in a Denver hotel bar each at different conferences.

Yuma Rocks is available at the PRC annual auction 10/25/08.  Given the tough economy please come to the auction and help the PRC, truly a worthy cause.

Good oysters, too.

450,000 Gallons in 22 sec.

Niagara Falls is an amazing site.  Visual, audible, tactile, and amazing all at the same time with 450,000 gallons of water right there…amazing.  Maid of the Mist was the intent.

Snake River Mating Dance

I post this with fear and trepidation, it is my first time based piece. It is a 27 second video that seemed so obvious at the time I made it. Click on the link and it will open in Quicktime.

This is the second time this piece has been shown: first at CEPA as a linear installation, 20×240 in ; This time at Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven as a 4×3 grid measuring 86×64 in. I think I like it best this way.

A beautiful day in the Queen City. Time to head north along Niagara Blvd. to Niagara Falls. this was just one of those pictures (one of 15 such made) that could not be passed up. Yahoo.

The whole point of putting a blog onto my website was to have a dynamic sometimes temporary place to run a picture or thought up the flag pole to see if anyone notices.  The website has become a bunch of galleries and related stuff that warehouses the past.  The blog deals with things I am trying out or maybe just sharing with those who might look.

With that said, I have been making some pictures for some time that I have loosely thought of as an artist book called “How to do Color Photography”.  This is the working cover.

For the past two months I had the opportunity to work with a Leaf Aptus 75S on my Hasselblad SWC/M, thus giving me (maybe) the best of both worlds. Working with a camera I am completely familiar with an extremely high quality digital back. While it did make the camera bigger, I chose to work with the hard drive as I wanted to work on a tripod and the encumbrance would be null, plus I was able to work all day without having to think about reloading. The file size and quality is pretty stunning but not having to scan and clean files is such blessing.

I expected to miss working with the square but the aspect ratio (48×36) was close to my Plaubel Makina W67, with that size sensor I was able to use most of what the Biogon 38 would provide. (Normal Hasselblad neg size is 55 wide). I thought I would work slower and more deliberately (as in view camera slower) but this was not the case. It produces a 190MB Tiff at 16 bits so going to 30×40 or larger is no problem.

I worked directly from the hard drive to the Mac and imported into Lightroom where I could work nondestructively with the MOS (Leaf RAW file). Here is the rub: it costs the same as a Saab, but I can use my SWC. I have shot several hundred files and will work on them over the summer.  Stay tuned.

A recent extended effort, please note; this is the first black & white picture I have made in maybe 25 years.   More in the Extended Landscape gallery.

My intention with this blog was to use it as a dynamic, current, and temporary space to post and try out new work and ideas; work that is not resolved yet but is intriguing to me; work that may not fit yet but warrants a look see. Along those lines, I have been carrying a Leica D-Lux 2 pocket size camera for a few years and I’ve shot about 3000 files. I am struck by some of the pictures I have made although I wouldn’t have shot these things with my big (read serious) cameras. There is a freeness and immediacy that this allowed me. I am continuing with this idea using a D-Lux 3 (bigger file size and snappy professional black finish).   To find out where it is going stay tuned as I will post pix periodically but regularly.