• Black and White,  Canon Powershot G12

    Abstract

    September 1, 2011
    Abstract

    It’s been one of those days when laundry is done, the bathroom still needs cleaned, and I don’t feel like doing or going anywhere. However, there is a twitch with my forefinger on my right hand, most likely from not getting enough exercise with a shutter button. So, I ask myself what is there around me that I see all the time but really never see and needs to have a photograph made of it? I glance over towards the bathroom and have an idea. Thirty minutes later and I have come up with an abstract image of something we see and use all the time. Crap, how do we miss seeing so much of what is around us?

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  • Documentary/Street

    Design In Art

    July 30, 2011
    Abstract

    “Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”

    D. H. LAWRENCE

    In case you’re wondering, this is a street grate with a small branch and pebble trapped within it’s arms.

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  • Art/Design,  Photography

    The Valve

    December 26, 2009
    The Valve 

    It’s plain and simple, I need exercise! One way for me get some exercise when traveling is walk the stairs at the hotels. I take the elevator with my bags but after that I usually walk up and down the stairs. I’ve noticed that in just about every hotel stairwell you will find valves. So I’m coming out the the closet and letting you know I take a lot of images of them. They are one of those manmade subjects readily available for me as well as a subject most people will overlook. Yep, need more exercise.

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  • Art/Design,  flowers

    Green Ferns

    February 2, 2009
    Green Ferns

    “While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

    Dorothea Lange

    Photography has given me is the gift of seeing more of the world around me. These ferns were against the wall of a stucco building next to a pathway leading to the swimming pool and immediately caught my attention. I feel photography has allowed me to see more of the world rather than just walking past it.

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  • Art/Design

    Snow Capped

    January 30, 2009
    Snow Capped Posts

    It can be rewarding to get outside the day of or the day after a snowfall, you never know what you might find. The day before this image was taken we had a nice snowfall and as sometimes happens today has turned out to be bright, sunny and warm, a great time to be outside. I drove to a park located near my condo and started to walk around. Near the kids playground, which was empty, there is a maze for the children, made of treated posts. The snow on the flat top is melting and creating a wonderful pattern just waiting for some guy with a camera to take a shot. That was me. It’s good to get out after a snowfall.

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