ONE

The last post of my photos taken with a simple lens on a DSLR.

Happy New Year!

One is 

Digital

TWO

This is the penultimate posting of a small series of photos I have taken with a very simple single element lens attached to a Fuji S5 digital single lens reflex body. The soft focus and lack of color correction are appealing to me and I will do more. Much more.

Two is

Digital of course

THREE

Yes it is the same simple single element lens. The same Fuji S5 single lens reflex. And the same lack of manipulation.  Even taken the same day in the same urban forest as the last one.

Three is

Digital

FOUR

Another photo taken with a simple lens.  Not manipulated.

Four is

Digital

FIVE

The same simple single element lens. No color correction. No coatings. The same Fuji S5. And of course the image is straight from the camera with no manipulation.

Five is

Digital

SIX

A very simple single element lens with no color correction or coatings attached to a Fuji S5 single lens reflex.  This image is straight from the camera with no manipulation.

Six is

Digital

SEVEN

A very simple single element lens with no color correction or coatings attached to a Fuji S5 single lens reflex. This image is straight from the camera.

Seven is

Digital

Me

Self Portrait in a Broken Mirror

Digital.

Purple Queen

I like this plant.  I have lived with these for a long time.  Thanks.

Digital. 

Setcreasea Pallida

The little flowers of Purple Heart Setcreasea.

Digital.

  

Purple Heart Setcreasea

Twenty or so years ago I found a small piece of purple vine on a sidewalk that turned into this plant in my window.  This plant is the beginning of many years of porches (my own and others) full of setcreasea pallida and this year I have thirteen more large pots of this purple vine brought in from the cold.
This is one of the first photos I liked when I decided to take up photography again.  I have taken many more photos of purple heart since then and will post a couple of recent ones that I like.

Analog.

NYC CP The Pond (final)

My last post in a series of photos from Central Park.

Analog.

NYC CP The Pond (2)

Famous streets.  Famous buildings.  The Pond.

Analog.

NYC CP The Pond

At the edge of The Pond in Central Park I found the contrast between the trees and buildings was impossible to ignore.  The snow on the branches was a bit difficult to pass up too.

Analog.

The Pond

Having spent many of my formative years in rural Kentucky it has always seemed odd to me that this body of water in Central Park in the middle of Manhattan is called The Pond.  I have always enjoyed the contrast.

Analog.

NYC CP

Another from a series of photos around The Pond.

Analog.

Central Park

Central Park.  Snow.  Morning.  

Black and white film.

Analog of course.

Remembering

I used to be in NYC for a weekend of work every March.  If I wanted to get the feel of being in The City it had to happen early in the morning or in the evening.  The photos I took were usually in the morning and snow in Central Park made for an excellent subject.

Analog.

Fuji 4X5 Instant Color

This photo "Outside My Front Door" is one of the first 4X5s where I was getting a correct exposure.  I decided I liked the film and using my new Fuji 4X5 back and when I ordered more film it was already discontinued.

Analog.

Spring Grove 5a

This is another 4X5 Fuji instant color photo that was in the show Permission 7 (beyond my own boundaries) that is officially closed although some photos are still hanging probably through this week.  This one "Spring Grove 5a" has found a new home and I wanted to share it before it got away.

Analog.

Appropriate (g)

Acrylic on paper.

Appropriate (f)

Gouache on paper.

Appropriate (e)

Acrylic and pastel on paper.

Inappropriation (black & white)

Charcoal and pencil on paper.

Appropriate (d)

Acrylic on paper.

Appropriate (c)

Acrylic on paper.

Appropriate (b)

Gouache on paper.

Appropriate (a)

Acrylic and pastel on paper.

Rothko Hamlin Borich

Rothko Hamlin Borich is 14 years old today.  This photo of Rothko in front of a Rothko is almost that old.

Analog.

Inappropriation (yellow)

Ink and pastel on paper.

Inappropriation (crimson)

Ink and pastel on paper.

Change

It turned cold and wet.  The coast is dealing with a super storm.  I wanted to lighten up and thought something pretty would be a fine change.
I loved growing a garden of Datura Inoxia and the scent of these evening blooms was wonderful.

Analog.

Walk in the Woods 7

"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle

Analog.

Walk in the Woods 6

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Einstein

Analog.

Walk in the Woods 5

If an extraordinarily talented photographer walks in the forest without their camera and then later explains in great detail what they would have taken a photo of is anything accomplished or achieved or attained?

Analog.  

Walk in the Woods 4

If a photographer falls in the forest and their camera goes down into a bottomless hole are there any photographs?

Analog.

Walk in the Woods 3

If a photographer falls in the forest and while their eyes are closed in pain and no one else is around the flash goes off accidentally does it make a light?

Analog.

Walk in the Woods 2

If a photographer falls in the forest and there is nobody around to hear do they make a sound?

Analog.

Walk in the Woods 1

Photographer in the forest walking toward the light.

Analog.

Light + Time III

Deeper into the forest.  

Another attempt to include time in a still photo.

Analog.

Light + Time II

Light plus time at the edge of the forest.

Time passing in a still photograph?

Analog.

Light + Time

Light plus time at the edge of the forest.

(And a camera of course.) 

Analog.

Time Passes (of course)

Another abandoned room.

Analog.

Time (passes)

Forty years ago I bought a Minolta SRT101 and immediately went out taking photos of everything.  I liked black and white and went into a lot of abandoned buildings.  I was under the impression that I was taking some good photographs.  I had no idea that every one was photographing abandoned buildings.  Apparently it is still a popular subject.
This photograph was taken about thirty years later.  It is an abandoned room.

Analog.

Prism (no prism)

The colors are always there in the light.  A prism can be used to separate light into its spectral colors.  This time I used the reflection from some leaves that blew into the plants on my front porch and a camera.

Digital.

Wave-Particle Duality

Serge Haroche can measure a single photon without destroying it.

Analog.

Light and More Light

It took light for the seed to become the tree that later fell and that I eventually took a photograph of on light sensitive film.

Analog.

Light

From the beginning to the end it's all about light.

Analog.

Personal View (7)

"Art is nothing in the world of ordinary interests, so it can be 

everything in the realm it creates for itself."  - Carter Ratcliff

Analog

(with digital noise from my hand me down scanner)

Personal View (6)

An image of substance should be able to have an effect on more than just the eyes of the viewer.  The maker of an image of substance should be able to allow that effect to have its own existence.

Analog.