Looking at one photograph at a time
Winter Field, JiaShan, China (Wo Zhi KanKan - I am just Looking) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - When I read a question asked by Miguel Garcia-Guzman on his blog Exposure Compensation (2014 update: the Exposure Compensation blog has been removed and has a new owner) regarding what constitutes Contemporary Great Portrait Photography, that started a kernel of thinking as... Continue Reading →
Since my visit to China, and specifically here in PingHu, was very brief, very much a cultural snapshot, a brief slice of time. Thus, I was unable to tell by looking at this family owned business, which came first, the development of the industrial park, or were they just lucky that the government did not allow their small factory... Continue Reading →
While wandering around in this new industrial complex that was recently built in PingHu, I found this room. It was a large room in size, not neccessarily in height, part of a clean room area for future medical device assembly. The Chinese have a number of windows in their facilities, but they are usually masked with... Continue Reading →
What I am realizing is that my series Open During Construction (Zhao Chang Ying Ye) is getting a little more complex than some of my earlier work as it relates to scope. Most of my earlier projects were united under a theme and althought they did change over time, but remained realitivly one dimensional. I had an... Continue Reading →
I thought that this made a better blog title than quit being lazy! I have found that as I work a series of photographs, I have been doing some shortcut evaluations and not really taking the images to where I can fully evaluate them. Such that I was going from camera, to RAW editor, to Photoshop... Continue Reading →
Okay, so sometimes when titling an image, I get a little carried away and think that I have a visual pun. Part of this is pretty obvious, eh? So at the moment, I am not sure what the title of this will be, but I have in this image in consideration for my series Open... Continue Reading →
As a child, did you ever have an art farm? The little plastic box that you put sand and some ants in and then watched them make their borrow home. We bought our first one and then decided we had enough ants around the area, we could make our own. They were very fascinating to... Continue Reading →
Untitled, 2004 Photography copyright of the artist, Gregory Crewdson With Gregory Crewdson's recent cover photograph in the Spring 2008 issue of Aperture magazine, there seems to be a buzz about Crewdson's art process. Such as being disappointed that he may not be the one who actually hits the exposure button. Duh. It's not who actually makes the... Continue Reading →
Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1974 White Castle, Route #1, Rahway, NJ, 1973 All photograhs, copyright of the artist, George Tice Sitting next my book by David Plowden, is the book, Photographs 1953 - 1973 by another urban landscape photographer, George Tice, who I know does have an influence on my urban landscape photography. This retrospective book... Continue Reading →
Vanishing Point, photograph copyright of the artist, David Plowden Last October 2007, David Plowden published his retrospective urban/rural landscape photography book, David Plowden: Vanishing Point. I have not seen the images within the book, but checking his web site, I think it may be like visiting old friends. I believe that Plowden may be one... Continue Reading →
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