Looking at one photograph at a time
Castle Fort Houses, photograhs copyright of the artist, Yongjin Luo While in Shanghai, I met Yougjin Luo, an urban landscape photographer as well as the owner of the OFOTO Gallery in the M50 art district of Shanghai. Youngjin does have an extensive web gallery, found here. I was able to walk the OFOTO Gallery back area... Continue Reading →
Agecroft Power Station, England, 1982, copyright of the artist, John Davies From time to time, I find myself ready to buy a book published by an a photographer, on (relatively) sight unseen. The recent book by John Davies is one of those, The British Landscape . An exerpt of what Davies writes about the urban landscape; To... Continue Reading →
Xiaoguan - 2002, photography copyright of the artist, Xinfa Yan This is a follow up to my overview of the M50 photography gallery area of Shanghai that Miguel posted for me on Exposure Componensation while I was in China this January. I would like to provide more information about Xinfa Yan, the photographer who was exhibiting at OFOTO Gallery in January. Regretfully,... Continue Reading →
Just a quick note that Miguel Garcia-Guzman (Exposure Compensation) and I are looking at our options for attending Connect 08, aka the Palm Springs Photo Festival, at the end of this Month. Were both thinking that we can squeeze in one day, but which? Monday is starting to look good to me at the moment.... Continue Reading →
Having recently read Colin Jago's reflection of what he sees and photographs in the urban landscape, may have been have got my own mind into gear when I had my own recognition of how I have been adapting and seeing. Very close to home. Well, actually the view out our windows. We are currently in the middle of a house remodeling,... Continue Reading →
Number 15, from the series Zima (winter), photography copyright of the artist Luis Belmonte Diaz Found over on Wan.der.lust.ag.ra.phy were three or four urban landscape photographers, of which Luis Belmonte Diaz from Warsaw, Poland was one of the more interesting of the set.
I have started working on the development of my second Edtioned Folio, which will be 15 images from my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip. As to a book version of this series, after wafling back and forth so many times, I feel compfortable that the series was well represented in LensWork and the entire... Continue Reading →
After writing yesterday about needing to have some wiggle room in a self-assigned series, it did get me to thinking about two other series that I was working on, specificily A Sideways Glance and Transitional Seam. For both of these series, I am photographing a specific area of Riverside County. And I am finding that one of these two... Continue Reading →
For those not reading Mandarin characters, the pinyin title is Zhou Chang Ying Yeh, the Chinese title for my project Open During Construction. The phrase roughly means that the business is open as usual, which provides me with some more ambiguity and room for creative interpretation of where I want to work on this series. I have been back and... Continue Reading →
Park, Old Town, Yellowknife photo copyright of the artist, Tim Atherton Tim Atherton is well known as the publisher of the blog Muse-ings and his discourses on the photographic work of others. Tim is also an accomplished photographer, working in large format (up to 8x10") in both Black and White as well as Color.... Continue Reading →
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