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 →
Luis Belmonte Diaz
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.
Second Editioned Folio in Development
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 →
Tansitional Seam series update
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 →
周常英業
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 →
Tim Atherton
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 →
Memorials removed
Yesterday on my drive home, I noticed that I had not seen two of the three memorials that I had photographed in Southern California on the toll road. One is a little out of the way, so to reconfirm that it had been removed, I took a little extra time this morning to drive by... Continue Reading →
Hongqiao – Pending Construction
After I was back in China last month, I had received an email from Paul Butzi regarding the walled villages found in China. He did not have an opportunity to go through one while he was over in China, but had I? I knew what he was talking about, because I had seen the remaining... Continue Reading →
Open during Construction
I have been thinking about my post yesterday, regaring how much of me is in my photographs. I will have to admit, up to now, you might not know that I have a engineering degree and extesnisve technical implmentation expreience by viewing my images. (or do you??) In a way, I have been avoiding that... Continue Reading →
Me in my photographs?
This weekend I made it to the bookstore looking for the recent issue of Photo-Eye, which was not on the rack, but I did pick up the current issue of Photo Techniques (Jan-Feb 08) issue. Although I was recent chosen by them as one of six photographers to be highlighted as part of a future promo... Continue Reading →