On the Beach
Category: B&W
Wild Palms?
And some Birds of Paradise with their late afternoon shadows from our day trip to Coronado.
The Juggler
Modern Living
Gnarly
Screened
I’ve been checking out what all the miscellaneous photo apps I have on my computer are, preparing to trade in my MacBook and found Tonality from MacPhun, apparently a B&W conversion tool. Looking for an unimportant file to play with I found this one from walking around Brooklyn during a workshop I did about 5 years ago with Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb. It looks pretty interesting, so I decided to post it.
Sunlight
The very last images from my time in Farnham, more views of the bright sunlight streaming into our apartment.
Light and Shadow
A couple more of the images I collected in Farnham of the bright sunlight flooding our apartment. The one above, shot on Ilford HP5 at 6 x 4.5 cm and the one below shot digitally.
Light and Shadow
One of the things I miss most about Farnham is living in a bright, sunny apartment. A couple of the last (digital) light play images I shot there.
Light Play
The play of sunlight on the walls in the mornings is fantastic. I took to photographing them on film but haven’t yet gotten the processed film scans, so I started taking them with a digital camera as well. Here are the digital ones.
Triangle, Streets
The triangle juts out from the corners of Principality (formerly Millennium) Stadium. A couple of other contrasty Cardiff street views I converted to black and white below.
Dome
The domed roof over the entrance rotunda of the National Museum + a couple of other architectural images. The “Keep Left” one might go with my “keep right” one from the Metropolitan in NY, or it might be a recommendation to the recently elected Labour party here in the UK who have tried so relentlessly not to frighten anyone with their leftism.
Wrestler
The painting above, with embedded video was from an exhibition about a local man who escaped the mines by becoming a flamboyant wrestler. I can’t find any trace of it on the museum’s web site.
We also saw an interesting exhibition called The Valleys, with work by over 60 artists including Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne, photographer Robert Frank, Josef Herman, photographer Bruce Davidson, and Ernest Zobole as well as introducing the work of collier artists and makers including Nicholas Evans, Harry Rodgers and Illtyd David.
Perfectly Clear
Alternately, in black and white:
Going Down
La Petite Ceinture
Almost a year ago, I visited a delightful park in Paris called La Petite Ceinture (the little belt), created on the remains of a disused little railroad circuit. Imagine my surprise to see this photo story at the Musée Réattu taken back when the railroad still ran.
Tower Steps
In the last post on La Tour I had been trying to see Joel Coen introduce his curation of Lee Friedlander’s photographs but the crowds were too big and I was turned away. I returned the next day to see the show without Joel and capture some more of the stark geometry of the place.
I missed it
Sitting in the shade at the Place de la République I saw this priest walking across the square and reached for my camera. By the time I had it out of the bag, he had turned and started chatting with this cyclist and the shot was gone. In the meantime, other photographers were attempting images with their Leicas (lots of older men wandering around with Leicas in Arles, shooting, I don’t know what…). Anyway, I clearly missed the shot and didn’t even nail the exposure.
Darkness in the Afternoon
More Geometric Art Space
