Remarkable – I count 7 people in the wedding party (not counting the bride and groom), 1 photographer, 3 cameras, and 2 phone cameras.
A Wedding on the Beach
Category: Candid
Refinement
Post-Photographic, or Photographic Post
It’s hard not to take pictures of lovely sunsets, no matter how cliché we know they are. And after seeing Penelope Umbrico’s post photographic 5,377,183 Suns (from Sunsets) from Flickr (Partial) 4/28/09, it’s that much harder. But I also like to photograph people in the act of photographing the sunset, like the one below where the subject is trying to catch the sinking sun in his hand.
The Juggler
Caffeinated American
We’re spending most of January in southern California (south of fire-ravaged LA). Technical note: I used Adobe Camera Raw’s beta reflection remover on this and it did a pretty fair job, except for the white blob on the far right and some vestiges along the top. Expect to see lots more California shots over the coming days and weeks, many of them kind of touristy.
Martin Luther King Jr Parade – San Diego
Christmas on Riverside Drive
Night in the City
More images I considered, but didn’t pick for Urban Exoticism.
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Urban Exoticism
I had a cousin who was an optician. He offered me an after-school job at his shop. He told me he’d teach me how to work the lens-grinding machine but to be careful lest I fall in and make a spectacle of myself.
Some more urban night shots from the archive.
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Urban Exoticism
Some more of the 70+ images that didn’t make the grade for submitting to Urban Exoticism.
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Urban Exoticism
I continue with samples of images I rejected from my Urban Exoticism contest submission.
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Urban Exoticism
I recently entered a competition on “Urban Exoticism.” From my archive I found 76 images I considered candidates, but only 5 could be submitted. Over the next few days I’ll share some of those that didn’t make the cut.
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Peggy
Tree and Wall
A candidate for adding to Urban Tree Portrait?
Have Brains, Will Travel
The slogan of the Brains Brewery, “people who know beer, have Brains,” is the kind of clever advertising I enjoyed seeing around Cardiff. I did not, however, get the opportunity to taste any Brains while there.
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.
Regarding Nature
Concrete Action
Every time we think the frightfully loud building work outside our windows may be done, something new comes along.
Tree-lined
A couple of Saturdays ago we joined the Farnham Ramblers on a coach trip to Salisbury in Wiltshire and went on a 6 — 7-mile ramble. This is a lovely shaded walk at the Northwest end of the Cathedral. I’ll be posting pictures from that trip over the coming days.
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.
