… in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA.
June 21, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Landscape/Panorama, Nature | Tags: Badlands National Park, black and white, erosion, monochrome, road trip 2015, stratigraphy | 1 Comment
In Wyoming, the state fines you for littering … and then sends a storm after you.
June 18, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Landscape/Panorama | Tags: black and white, clouds, I-80, monochrome, road trip 2015, sky, southern Wyoming, storm | 1 Comment
… a small cabin high above a valley near my university.
June 12, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Landscape/Panorama, Nature | Tags: black and white, cabin, clouds, monochrome, Pfeiffer Nature Center, sky, texture, valley | Leave a comment
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I felt the solemnity of the location, the near-sacred aura of Ground Zero, coupled with the somewhat lacy reflections of nearby buildings juxtaposed with the strong lines of the memorial structure was poorly served by a riot of tourist color. The gathered crowds retreat into the background when rendered in black and white, while the names stand starkly front and center.
I’m glad to have shot this after Moab. I feel I did it much more justice than I might have otherwise.
June 10, 2017 | Categories: 5280 Lens Mafia, Architecture/Design, Black & White, Personal Narrative, Urban/Street/Industrial | Tags: Ground Zero, monochrome, New York City, World Trade Center Memorial | Leave a comment
… in northern Nevada. See larger image.
June 9, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Landscape/Panorama, Nature | Tags: Basin and Range, black and white, geology, monochrome, Nevada, road trip 2016 | Leave a comment
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One of the classic shots in the Palouse (eastern Washington’s grain region) is color and shadow from the top of Steptoe Butte. Rather than explore the shades of green and/or brown, I chose to explore the textural contrasts and patterns in this scene.
June 9, 2017 | Categories: 5280 Lens Mafia, Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Landscape/Panorama, Nature, Personal Narrative | Tags: monochrome, Palouse, Steptoe Butte | Leave a comment
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Faux Falls is just outside Moab, UT. It’s “Faux” because the water is pumped from an adjacent canyon through a ridge to move the water closer to town, cascading down into a lake.
During the Moab Photography Symposium I shot Faux Falls on two separate occasions, once coming down on the falls from above, once from below. Acutely aware of some errors (er, suboptimal decisions) in the first session, I set out to create a better image during the second. Part of that was seeing in black & white, part framing, part clearing excess material from the image field itself. I’m happy with the result, at least for now.
I should point out that during this second shooting session, I lost a lens step-up ring into the stream and was soaked to halfway between my ankles and knees. At least I didn’t hurt myself. That was a different shoot :-).
June 8, 2017 | Categories: 5280 Lens Mafia, Black & White, Landscape/Panorama, Nature, Personal Narrative | Tags: Faux Falls, Moab Utah, monochrome, Waterfall | Leave a comment
… over Route 50 in Nevada, oft-billed as “the loneliest road in America.”
June 7, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Landscape/Panorama, Nature | Tags: clouds, monochrome, Nevada, rain, road trip 2016, Route 50, sky, storm | Leave a comment
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I had a wonderful experience during a weeklong workshop and symposium (the Moab Photography Symposium) in early May. Among the realizations was remembering how much I loved working in Black & White as a kid (much easier to process and print in black & white when you are using film). In conjunction with starting to print my own work, I am re-exploring monochromicity. The next few days will bring samples.
Bodie is a California State Historic Park in the Eastern Sierra, south of Bridgeport and north of Lee Vining. The ghost town has been a state park since 1962 and a national historic landmark since 1961.
A short stop in Bodie in 2014 began my adult, digital, photography as art period. I had about 45 minutes in the middle of the day and shot deliberately for black and white, using the harsh light in an attempt to evoke stark emptiness. Out of less than 50 exposures (most of them bracketed sets of three to capture the total dynamic range available), I got three or four of my better images. It’s taken nearly three years since then to solidify my sense of my photography as art, but the Terrific Trio workshop before the Moab Photography Symposium (plus one other presenter during the Symposium itself) have managed to do that.
June 7, 2017 | Categories: 5280 Lens Mafia, Black & White, Personal Narrative, Travel, Urban/Street/Industrial | Tags: abandoned, Bodie, machinery, monochrome, Stark | Leave a comment
… off Route 50 in Nevada, USA. [see larger image]
May 14, 2017 | Categories: Black & White, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Landscape/Panorama, Nature | Tags: clouds, monochrome, Nevada, road trip 2016, Route 50, sky, storm | 1 Comment
… in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA.
May 4, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Landscape/Panorama, Nature | Tags: geyser, monochrome, road trip 2016, trees, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park | 1 Comment
… in the forest at my university.
March 31, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Nature | Tags: black and white, Bob's Woods, branch, forest, logging, monochrome, St. Bonaventure University, tree | Leave a comment
March 22, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Nature | Tags: black and white, Bob's Woods, monochrome, shadow, snow, St. Bonaventure University, winter, zen | Leave a comment
… along a small stream at my university.
January 29, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Nature | Tags: black and white, marsh grass, monochrome, snow, St. Bonaventure University, Two Mile Creek, winter | Leave a comment
… off Eden Trail Branch Road in Bernardston, Mass., a few miles from home.
January 28, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Landscape/Panorama, Nature | Tags: Bernardston MA, black and white, farm, hay bales, monochrome, sky, snow, winter | 4 Comments
… in a field at my university.
January 26, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Nature | Tags: black and white, Bob's Woods, field, monochrome, silhouette, snow, St. Bonaventure University, winter | Leave a comment
It’s 4 degrees and snowing where I am. Hence a needed break … my favorite image of Badlands National Park.
January 8, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Black & White, Cameras/Gear/Software/Technique, Landscape/Panorama | Tags: Badlands National Park, black and white, clouds, monochrome, road trip, sky, south dakota | Leave a comment
… on leaves on a path in the forest at my university.
January 6, 2017 | Categories: Abstract/Texture, Nature | Tags: Bob's Woods, forest, leaves, monochrome, path, St. Bonaventure University | 2 Comments
