the contiguous moment

Southern Romantic (with a ferrous perspective)

2010-08-19T11:01:00.006-04:00

I used to be a determined Landscape photographer. 4x5, chromes, color neg, Polaroid... Not so much these days. At least, I rarely go looking for the ironic vista anymore, although they are increasingly hard to avoid.

In hindsight I find many of my landscape images to be absurdly romantic, like any good love affair.

What I think set them off from more traditional photographic renderings of the Southern landscape was a paradoxical fondness for the deliberate disregard we pay the very land which defines us. Like a bad but lasting marriage, the landscape is littered with relics of past transgressions and episodes, which I enthusiastically dredged up and re-contextualized with a mat and frame, like tales told at a cocktail party. “Remember that 1000 acres they clear-cut for The Scenic Highway near Grayson…? Hooboy!”

2010: 02: 13 a conundrum for the age

2010-02-13T14:05:00.009-05:00

Here's a re-dedication. More writing. Not too much extemporaneous. Not so literal (a conundrum for the age).

Most of my work lately has been on an organized image library (now up to 28,909 images), but I've also realized (perhaps due to that personal retrospective) that I have been neglectful as an artist. The commercial photography that I veered into over a decade ago had seen it's hey day (or is that hay day?) at least a decade before that. Now the metaphor has superceded the representative and I'm back where I started, making pictures of things that aren't in the picture.

I've been rethinking the reasons I chose this path, and arrived here. Making photographs that just look like the things photographed is becoming a poor way to make a living. Photography is different now (how long ago did this actually happen? I've apparently been asleep. Dreaming perhaps) .

The business of photography is different now. I must be different now, without just lying to myself.

Another change is that good technique is now bad, and I don't mean in the parlance of the hip (as in "That's sick, man", which now means "that's good".) I mean that those who can deliberately and repeatably show a consistently bad technique (stylistically consistency) can parlay that willingness and ability to suck into a lucrative career. I don't need to name names, just pick up any counter culture or fashion mag and you'll know what I mean. Wedged into that dreck is some truly inspired work, masquerading as focused indifference to perceptual reality. Work produced by smart people laughing on their way to deposit more cash into short lived (but well stuffed) bank accounts.

In any event, a cycle has come around, and a slow awareness has bloomed. There's a great editorial by Roberta Smith in The NY Times that for some reason, has held my thinking and will need several re-readings to hold dear. But let me recommend it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/arts/design/14curators.html

More later, but sooner. Really... t

2009 11 06

2009-11-19T09:45:00.002-05:00

Ritz Carlton, Les Dames Escoffier "Evening in the City" Fundraiser

changes

2009-10-31T22:41:00.004-04:00

It's been two months...
I don't walk the neighborhood as much as I used to.

2009 06 25 my birthday

2009-07-03T00:12:00.004-04:00

the sun moved slow

2006 09 134: another one today, because I can

2009-06-14T17:47:00.006-04:00

On June 12, 2009 at about 3:20 in the afternoon
I photographed this ring made by my wife, Judy Parady.
See her work at judyparady.com

Some photographers looking at this might recognize
the background as the reflector from a Lumedyne strobe head.
It's an interesting prop that is somewhat ironic in that the image
was made by window light. The ring is resting on a spool of brown waxed cord.

An understated, or narrow palette has always appealed to me,
and this image shows that tendency.

2009 06 14

2009-06-14T17:42:00.002-04:00

March 31, 2009 11:45 am

maybe I'll write something soon. But not today.
Maybe I'll just post images, until I actually have something to say.

2009 03 06

2009-03-07T03:06:00.001-05:00

an image for the spring

2009:02:26 11:20:43

2009-03-02T15:13:00.014-05:00

Lightroom gets me started

I photograph my dog a lot, and since at 13 years old, she is still draggin me around the neighborhood, there's a perspective tendency. More than you needed to know? ahem.

But when using the D700 (back on msg) in duotone mode, I made an exposure that was way hot, but liked it so much I used it as a creative starting point in my conversion through Lightroom. I was talking with my friend Beth Lilly the other day about how the LCD on a digital SLR is a collaborative partner that we didn't have previously. Even though I convert everything from raw files, I still strive for a good in camera WB.

Years ago I worked briefly with Joel Meyerowitz. At the time of every exposure, he made a written list of verbal descriptions that would then serve as a printing guide. Joel was exposing VPL, a tungsten balanced film in all sorts of daylight conditions, so a standard color pack derived from a Kodak test negative (a Shirley) was pretty much worthless. The verbal descriptor was used to ~~torture~~ inform his printers regarding the palette and tone desired from those negs. Big fun. Now we have a jpg. Better fun.

The conversation I had with my friend Beth, was in the context of our immediate creative attraction and response to a scene. That response could either encourage (or not) further exploration within any particular moment or setting. Beth does very interesting work with a cell phone and the feedback from the device is an essential part of the process. If it looks promising, continue to work the scene. If not, move on.

Things look different in a photograph and on the LCD than they do when you perceive them directly, and that syntactical appearance can influence the final rendering of an image, even (or especially) as you are engaged in the process of making the photograph.

This is why, even though I may ultimately create the duotoned image from the full spectrum raw file, I use the camera display to create a sort of collaborative feedback that leads me toward such ultimate decisions as contrast, tonal abbreviation, white balance and saturation. And of course, composition (like the ground glass of a field camera). It also gets me back to that in the moment mindset when I am formulating my interpretation at the desktop.

This "touchstone" concept works in color, too and is why I always strive to hit a WB in camera that I feel compliments the subject/moment and my desired effect or mood, and will enhance the capture processes as well as the post-production creative processes. It melds my visual thinking to my intuitive and visceral responses.

One situation I have found this quite important in, is when a portrait subject can either be enthralled or horrified by the image on the screen. Use with discretion.

At the top of this post is an image that I created out of my immediate response to that overexposed, warm toned display on my LCD, while walking with Bailey.

I started with the Creative Aged preset in Lightroom, and altered almost everything. The adjustment brush with minus "Exposure" let me bring the sky back in. Some saturation came back, tonal shifts and Clarity and other stuff, too... t

Lightroom polishing

2009-02-24T21:37:00.004-05:00

Java Lords, L5P

Updating the Duotone post:

Here I raised the contrast some with the Tone Curves, using one of my custom Lightroom Presets as a kicking off point. I moved away from red, added some contrast and bumped Fill (a weird combo, counter productive one might think). The adjustment brush lightened her left eye up a little. Clarity ended down in the minus.

Then in Photoshop, converted the 16bit PSD to 8, added a layer to get to the Diffused Glow. Worked it a while and then added a layer mask to bring back some of the darker and lighter areas that had moved too much.

The original image posted last night was not enough for her... t

She makes the best Americano. Really.

2009 02 24 - 8:17 am

2009-02-24T08:16:00.009-05:00

From the D700 NEF, through LRv2.3, now a custom preset
it still needs work

I've been told I need a blog.

I've been told it's an asset to reveal how much (or how little) I know about my profession. Ha.

I had thought that just putting images up would be sufficient evidence that I know what I'm doing with a camera and light (and that other stuff in a photograph). But no.

There is a lot more to it. And that, apparently, is the valuable stuff. Like the hours I spend with software. And hardware. And theoretical positioning with other artists as to the relevance of what we do, and how it is perceived.

Apparently, this stuff matters too.

Well I know it matters to me. But does it matter to anyone else? And is anyone else reading this? Apparently not. Or maybe you are looking, but are shy of the "comment" button. I mean, I rarely say anything... why should you (if you're even here)?

So it begins. I trash the concept of a blog with images and minimal words, to join the mass of private publicity in the excessively obese (that's redundant) blog-o-sphere.

I will try to stay thin and focused. And not be stupid on the internet.

Where to start.

OK, here you go: I've been shifting pointedly back into duotone work.

Having left that behind in my cobweb covered darkroom, it restarted with the Nikon D700, which has capabilities that offered black and white digital capture at a quality my personal standards could accept. It has excellent high sensitivity resolution, tonality and focusing all in one package, with a neat built in capability to build my own profile using color contrast filters and duotoning of the images. Pretty exciting.

Then I discovered the down side. The profile only sticks to a jpg. The NEF (raw file) instantly becomes a color image when opened in Photoshop's ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) and in Nikon View if you want to make any changes to it's saturation (which is not one of the adjustable parameters of the in-camera profile).

I am working entirely in Lightroom (v2.3CR) or Photoshop (still CS3) and am not going to spend a hundred bucks on the creatively talented and cute but insane Capture NX2 (I've had girl friends who were like that. No thanks). It pains me that Nikon won't make the immediately previous version of their flagship conversion software compatible with their newest $3000 camera. Life is tough. I go to Adobe and keep my hundred bucks. Neither will I shell out $200 for Silver efex, which is fun, but not that fun. I'll look at it again when I have money (not holding breath).

So I have been using LR's presets (I've made about 20 of them) to customize my duotoned imagery. The in camera jpg acts as a proof, that lets me assess an image's effectiveness as a duotone. I have not been able to force myself to settle for a more compressed or smaller jpg (coming soon to a mindset near me), so my back up protocol expands hugely in time and bytes. I do need to work on that. This issue is compounded by my new affection for the DNG format, which is tempered by my distrust of corporate stability (where did that come from?). So now I have JPG, DNG and NEFs of all duotone images and NEFs and DNGs of all images. sigh.

So there's my topic for the next entry: file formats and image backup storage. sigh... t

2009:02:20 12:37:33

2009-02-22T15:00:00.002-05:00

February 20, 2009

2008:09:07 09:03:14

2009-02-11T15:48:00.001-05:00

estate rimane
the remains of summer

2009-02-01T18:51:00.005-05:00

I made this portrait of my friend years ago on his 69th birthday. A handsome man who, when I showed him the Polaroid (yeah, that long ago) he said "Oh Tom, guess what?" (What... Gene?). "I am an old man". I told him that everyone knew that, except (apparently) him.

I see, on a pretty regular basis, older guys making idiots of themselves around younger women and I think some of that is an inner vision of themselves that stopped aging somewhere around college. They deny what is revealed in the mirror every day, by engrossing themselves in detail; the beard, the hair, the clothes. And they continue to hit on girls that are grossed out by their incredible lack of self awareness.

I decided that day with my friend Gene, that I didn't want to wake up one day with the startling realization that I was old. I'd rather keep track of what I look like and not be shocked like Dave in 2001 A Space Odessy, suddenly seeing myself sinking into my death bed, and wondering, "when did I get old?"... t

2008:09:01 12:55:17

2009-01-22T11:56:00.002-05:00

Hsiao Ch'u / The Taming Power of the Small

2007:12:20 17:10:53

2009-01-17T00:51:00.001-05:00

Ice Storm, December 20, 2007

2007:12:30 19:43:19

2009-01-15T13:08:00.002-05:00

Inlet Beach December 30 2007, 7:43pm

2008:09:18 17:46:40

2009-01-11T14:42:00.005-05:00

Cine Lenses
September 19, 2008

2009:01:02 16:07:43

2009-01-06T00:05:00.001-05:00

Venus

2009:01:01 16:57:34

2009-01-05T11:38:00.002-05:00

Moments later,
the traditional New Years Day meal
of the Southern United States
Happy New Year!

2009:01:01 16:21:06

2009-01-01T19:52:00.003-05:00

Happy New Year
Judy Parady's Killer Corn Bread
for an early dinner with Dave Butler

2008:12:24 17:00:29

2008-12-25T19:23:00.002-05:00

Street: Sign
Christmas Eve - West Davis Street

2008:11:11 12:57:48

2008-12-19T22:48:00.003-05:00

orderly deconstruction
November 11, 2008

2008:12:13 21:19:34

2008-12-14T21:34:00.002-05:00

The only child at the party
December 13, 2008

2007:12:30 19:26:49

2008-12-13T19:26:00.002-05:00

Inlet Beach, Florida 7:30pm
December 30, 2007

2008:12:04 17:01:09

2008-12-13T00:33:00.007-05:00

Lean (Sex), December 4, 2008
from the Sex or Death series

2008:12:10 17:31:08

2008-12-10T22:01:00.002-05:00

Angelica wears a Judy Parady pendant
amethyst, copper, bone, leather
December 10, 2008

2008:11:29 13:11:37

2008-12-02T00:37:00.004-05:00

Mohawk Teacup (Death) November 29, 2008
from the Sex or Death Series

2008:05:24 18:30:26

2008-11-23T00:25:00.002-05:00

Bob, Great Speckled Bird 40th Anniversary
35-70mm @ 58mm, 1/320 sec, f/10
ISO: 200 with strobe

2008:10:27 21:29:44

2008-11-22T23:26:00.002-05:00

3 Cicadas (Death) October 27 2008
from the Sex or Death series
60mm, 1/200 sec, f/29
ISO: 100 with strobe

2008:10:16 17:30:34

2008-11-22T21:55:00.004-05:00

from the Sex or Death series
(Sex and Death)
60mm, 1.6 sec, f/22, ISO: 200
window light

2008:05:24 21:42:48

2008-11-22T21:51:00.002-05:00

Great Speckled Bird 40th Anniversary
35-70mm @ 35mm, 1/5 sec, f/4
ISO: 200 with strobe

2008:05:24 19:21:41

2008-11-22T21:43:00.003-05:00

Great Speckled Bird 40th Anniversary
B Complex, Atlanta, Georgia
35-70mm @ 35mm

1/160 sec, f/3.2, ISO: 100

2006:07:23 15:56:14

2008-11-22T21:31:00.002-05:00

L5P
50mm, 1/200 sec, f/7.1, ISO: 200

2007:04:23 15:00:45

2008-11-22T21:29:00.002-05:00

Naomi at Java Lords, L5P
50mm, 1/100 sec, f/2.8
ISO: 200, window light

2006:08:06 21:04:25

2008-11-22T21:25:00.002-05:00

Pat, night swimming
24mm, 1/4 sec, f/2.8
ISO: 400

2008:07:29 19:36:58

2008-11-22T21:20:00.002-05:00

Lisa Alembik, Artist and Curator
after a thunderstorm
85mm, 1/15 sec, f/3.2
ISO: 200 with strobe

2007:06:13 11:35:13

2008-11-22T21:15:00.002-05:00

Phillip Carpenter, Artist
50mm (75mm in 35mm film)
1/20 sec, f/4, ISO: 100 with strobe

2008:11:09 16:06:03

2008-11-22T21:08:00.002-05:00

Serenbe, Palmetto, Georgia
Fundraiser for Les Dames Escoffier
Skewered turnips for dipping in butternut caramel
60mm, 1/160 sec, f/3.2, ISO: 200

Back...

2008-11-22T20:59:00.004-05:00

2008:10:18 00:30:07
Trackside Bar, Decatur, Georgia
60mm, 1/8 sec, f/2.8, ISO: 3200

August 5 2008

2008-08-05T08:06:00.004-04:00

July 2 2008 7pm window light
60mm Micro, 8 sec, f/22, Custom WB

Augut 2, 2008

2008-08-03T00:49:00.003-04:00

June 25 2008 9:30pm
50mm on a DX camera, f10, 1/100th, Lumedyne, Custom WB

July 20, 2008

2008-07-20T11:06:00.005-04:00

July 13 2008 11:30pm
magnolia pods with hydrangea flower
1/200th sec, f22, 60mm Micro Nikkor, Lumedyne, WB custom

July 12 2008

2008-07-12T13:49:00.003-04:00

July 8 2008 9:30pm

July 2 2008

2008-07-02T11:54:00.002-04:00

June 27 2008 9:15pm
TULA Arts Center, MOCA Ga
Atlanta Georgia

June 23 2008

2008-06-23T14:37:00.002-04:00

June 22, 2008, 2:00pm
Atlanta Georgia

June 14 (B) 2008 (catching up...)

2008-06-14T18:05:00.003-04:00

June 13, 2008 7:15pm
Decatur Georgia

June 14 2008

2008-06-14T17:27:00.002-04:00

June 13, 2008 4:15pm
Serenbe trail, Palmetto Georgia

June 10 (D) 2008

2008-06-10T21:29:00.005-04:00

May 24 2008 7:10pm
Wolf, Great Speckled Bird 40th Anniversary Celebration
B Complex Murphy Avenue Atlanta Georgia

June 10 (C) 2008

2008-06-10T21:08:00.005-04:00

May 25 2008 9:00pm
Infinity garaged, Decatur, Georgia

June 10 (B) 2008

2008-06-10T20:55:00.004-04:00

April 20 2008 8:00pm
Leesburg Florida

June 10 (A) 2008

2008-06-10T20:52:00.005-04:00

May 21 2008 5:30pm
Pete's spoon

resurgence - June 9 2008

2008-06-10T20:42:00.004-04:00

May 17 2008 8:30pm
Garden Party, Oakhurst Community Garden, Decatur Georgia

April 23 2008

2008-04-23T11:54:00.001-04:00

April 11 5:00pm
Atrium, Reynolds mansion, Sapelo Island, Georgia

April 23 2008

2008-04-23T11:37:00.002-04:00

April 11 4:00pm
Sapelo Island Ferry

april 23 2008

2008-04-23T11:21:00.003-04:00

April 11 2008 10:45pm
meat slicer, Reynolds mansion kitchen, Sapelo Island, Georgia

April 8 2008 primo

2008-04-08T22:13:00.004-04:00

April 5 2008 6:15pm
Oakhurst Community Garden Project
Sally Wylde, Kyla Zaro-Moore and Curtis Gentry
Bee Rescue Crew

april 8 2008 segundo

2008-04-08T21:46:00.004-04:00

april 5 2008 6:22pm
Oakhurst Community Garden Project
Curtis Gentry directs the move

April 5 2008

2008-04-05T16:40:00.005-04:00

april 5 2008 12:15am
106 West Theatre, Winder Georgia

march 29 2008

2008-03-29T23:28:00.003-04:00

march 29 2008 8:10pm
bamboo

march 27 2008

2008-03-27T00:40:00.004-04:00

march 23 10:35 am
LeBeau, Horse Cove, North Carolina

march 20 2008

2008-03-20T22:07:00.002-04:00

march 16 3:00pm
City Gallery East, Atlanta Ga.

March 19 2008

2008-03-19T22:58:00.005-04:00

March 10 2008 7:50 pm
studio window light with tungsten lamp

50mm f14 2 sec iso 100 WB 4000K

march 15 2008

2008-03-15T18:13:00.006-04:00

march 15 2008 2:30pm
Easter Clebration, Canton Georgia
35-70mm @ 48mm
1/80 sec, f/6.3, iso 400

These are some of the most unpredictable jobs I work. This one we spent most of the time in the bathrooms at the Forsyth County YMCA with a few guys from the Forsyth County Sheriffs Department K9 Corps. Intense. Belgian Shepherds. Intense. We were waiting for the tornadoes to blow by. Intense.

and the kids... either they are absolutely terrified of the Easter Bunny or completely enthralled. This beautiful child was obviously of the latter group. I love the mudra-like gesture she is making and the beatific serenity of her expression. You'd never know she's just spent over an hour in the YMCA bathroom with 80 other kids and a bunch of clowns with a limited number of tricks. Real clowns, if that's not an oxymoron.

march 14 2008

2008-03-15T00:45:00.003-04:00

march 6 2008 12 noon
Oakview Blvd, Decatur

march 12 2008

2008-03-13T13:38:00.004-04:00

march 12 2008 4:15pm
spring bud, Hill Street, Decatur Ga.

march 11 2008

2008-03-10T01:37:00.003-04:00

march 5 2008 11:58am
Georgia State University Gallery
Imago by Ed Akins II with David Green

march 10 2008

2008-03-10T01:29:00.006-04:00

march 3, 2008 8:52pm
under the corner of west peachtree at peachtree streets

March 6 2008 (I've been busy)

2008-03-06T23:35:00.003-05:00

march 4, 2008 1:50pm
El Portro Restaurant
Buford Highway

february 29 2008

2008-02-29T22:09:00.008-05:00

february 27 2008 4:00pm
global payments inc
35-70mm @ 44mm
1/20 sec, f/4 iso 200

As I was heading into their headquarters, I saw this neon logo in their lobby. Nice.
Upstairs in the board room, I balanced the window light on the wall signage with the Lumedyne, and made the safety shot:

35-70 Nikon AF-D @ 42mm (in 35mm film)
1/30 sec, f/4, WB Sunny
that's window light on the metal logo,
and my Lumedyne for the main

Global Pay CEO Paul Garcia was then willing to make the trip for another portrait in front of that neon logo in the lobby. I went ahead with his assistant, nailed down the white balance, gel'd a grid and made what would be the heavily cropped cover shot of a magazine you'll probably never see.
Total time on location was less than 75 minutes, and Paul's time in front of the camera was under 12.

february 23 2008

2008-02-23T15:26:00.005-05:00

february 22, 2008 7:48pm
Ponce de Leon, Atlanta Ga.

This was outside my car window as I waited for the traffic light at Oakdale and Ponce de Leon.

50mm 3 sec f 8 iso 100 WB 4200k

february 20 2008

2008-02-20T09:08:00.005-05:00

february 19 2008 7:00pm
Hill Street, Decatur Ga.
Walking Bailey at sunset on Hill Street in Decatur,
These Crepe Myrtles seemed so gestural. Nice palette, too.

50mm 1/50th f3.5 iso 100 WB Custom

february 18 2008

2008-02-18T23:14:00.003-05:00

february 15 2008 6:30pm
studio window light, L5P

I ripped that portrait of Norah Jones out of the NYT

24mm Nikkor AF-D 1/5th sec @ f5 iso 100 WB Sunny

february 17 2008

2008-02-18T01:02:00.005-05:00

december 31 2007 7:00pm
Inlet Beach, Florida, USA

New Years Eve 2007 Inlet Beach Dune Preserve Florida
Yeah, it's really this beautiful there.
See more about where we stayed. You should book a week. Take some friends.

- 17-55 @ 17mm 1/13 f7.1 iso 100 WB Sunny minus 3 -

february 15 2008

2008-02-15T23:24:00.006-05:00

archive image - july 20 2007 5:05pm
L5P Community Center Upstairs Sink

I kept hanging around the Community Center in Little Five Points, hoping a studio would open up. It did.

- 50mm 1/60th f4.8 iso 100 WB Custom -

february 13 2008

2008-02-13T20:41:00.005-05:00

february 13 2008 7:10pm
timex cat

Emily & Sam's cat (what... one of five?) transfixed by Timex

24mm 1/50th f2.8 iso 400 WB Incandescent

february 12 2008

2008-02-13T10:26:00.004-05:00

february 6 2008 6:45 pm
studio

Payin da bills (thanks, Emily)

24mm 1/200th f22 iso 100 WB Custom
Dynalite, Lumedyne and lots of other stuff

february 10 208

2008-02-11T01:05:00.005-05:00

february 6 - 2008 - 9:15pm
APG Pushpin Show

Described by this subject as a "passport to eterntity" photo.
Steve is a performance artist of premier talent who understands the value of critical distance when considering creative endeavors.
Some people just get it.

35-70 Nikon f2.8 AF-D @ 52mm 1/100th f4.5 iso 100 WB Sunny -3
2 seconds apart at the APG Pushpin Show

frebruary 8 2008

2008-02-09T14:52:00.003-05:00

february - 8 - 2008 11:15 and 11:00 pm
APG Pushpin Show

The Atlanta Photography Group has a Push Pin Show every year around Valentines Day.
On opening nights, I've been making portraits like these on and off since 1987.

They used to be made with my Polaroid 600SE and Type 665 pos/neg film. The discontinuance of that fine film significantly marks the end of an era. The fleeting nature of it's positive and the stability of the properly treated negative brought a Dorian Grey like quality to portraits from that time.
Now I use little HP 300 series printers that use the very stable Vivera inks. Color. Nothing stays the same and yet, nothing really changes.

35-70 f2.8 AF-D @ 52mm 1/100th f6.3 iso 100 WB Custom
Lumedyne in a Westcott 36in Strip light

february 7 2008

2008-02-07T23:56:00.002-05:00

february 7 - 2008 - 10:43am
sun in my belly, kirkwood

Having breakfast at Sun In My Belly with the Oracle At WiFi,
this woman was reading the NYT at the next table.

50mm 1/15th f3.5 iso 100 WB Custom

february 6 2008

2008-02-07T00:34:00.002-05:00

february 6 - 2008 - 1:55pm
Java Lords, L5P

The almost lost art of letter writing lives on...
This was (for me) a palette study
I am not responsible for wardrobe.

50mm 1/10 f 1.8 iso 400 WB Incandescent

february 5 2008

2008-02-06T00:27:00.002-05:00

February 5 - 2008 - 7:05pm

Walking Bailey at twilight, a street light put a nice glow on a wet parking lot at Agnes Scott.
The evening blue sky makes these street lights seem rosie.

50mm 1/50 sec f 4.5 iso 200 WB Sunny

february 3 2008

2008-02-03T23:58:00.003-05:00

february 3 - 2008 - 6:10pm
studio still life

These Mimosa Seeds had been drying in my studio for years. Through my current re-infatuation with window light still life, they finally came to rest on this glass that had been aging in my backyard. They both have a patina that cannot be manufactured.

- 50mm 3 sec f11 iso 100 WB Custom -

january 30 2008

2008-01-30T23:37:00.005-05:00

january 30 - 2008 - 4:45pm

Java Lords, L5P

Judy Parady's jewelry looks so good on a person. Go figure.

Angelica makes Americanos for me.
She, the necklace and the light in the cafe' were just perfect at that moment.
A confluence of beauty.

-85mm 1/60th f3.5 iso 200 WB Sunny - 3

January 29 2008

2008-01-30T00:05:00.002-05:00

january 29 - 2008 - 5:50pm
studio still life

Bought these washers because I like the way they look.
Years later, when I dumped them out of the bag, they landed like this...

- 24mm 4 sec f16 iso 100 WB Custom -

January 27, 2008

2008-01-28T00:32:00.001-05:00

January 27 - 6:55pm - 2008
Thomas Deans Fine Art
the new gallery

Thomas Deans moved his gallery from it's former location in TULA,
just up the hill to 22 Bennett Street.
Here he is fitting about 6 tons of art into a 4 ton gallery. It worked.

- 24mm 1/50th sec f2.8 iso 400 WB Tungsten -

January 25, 2008

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January 17 - 2008 - 9:15 pm
Capital City Club, ATL

Got booked for a PR gig at The Capital City Club.
This guy was enjoying his vanilla wafers in the chocolate fountain.

17-55 AFD2.8 1/30th sec f4 iso 400 WB Daylight
Handheld Lumedyne (400ws) bounced off the ceiling

january 23 2008

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January 23 - 2008 - 5:21 pm
studio still life

my friend Sarah called me about the hawk that was dead in her backyard.
I only got to it the next day.

- 105mm 5 sec f16 iso 100 WB Sunny minus 3 -

January 22, 2008

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January 22 - 2008 - 1:20 pm
after the snow

January 22, a few days after the snow. This pile of stones and the shell are on a table between the house and Judy's studio.

These photos were all made on that day as the snow was melting. I was caught by how the snow melted in a way that echoed the warming body nearest it.

-various exposure settings, all about the same -
85mm Nikon w/ T6 diopter, 1/100 sec f2.8 iso 100 WB Sunny minus 2

start up

2008-01-21T09:39:00.000-05:00

January 20 was the first posting of images here.

The idea is to present images created within a contiguous moment, employing that which photographers have enjoyed for centuries... filtered photons striking a sensitized plate.

While there may be more than one image presented on any day, each image will contain only the information gathered within a contiguous moment... a realization and recognition of that specific experience in time and place... t

January 20, 2008

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Left: January 19 - 2008 - 10:10 pm
Variety Playhouse, L5P Atlanta Ga.

Right: January 20 - 2008 - 6:50pm
studio still life

Left
The Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings concert at the Variety Play House was packed tight.I wandered the hall making pictures from the hip, enjoying the music, only occasionally trying for clarity. This woman was waiting at the top of the aisle between the lobby and the concert hall.

- 50mm 1/2 sec f 1.8 iso 800 WB 2500k -

Right
This still life was made the next day in my studio down the street from The VPH.
Later that night, I was struck by the similarities in the palette of these two images.

- 50mm 25 sec f8 iso 100 WB Custom -