Richard’s Notes

A Remarkable Tornado Photo
Lori Mehmen took an incredible shot. The light makes it, not just the cloud and funnel. Wow.

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Elizabeth Carmel, Fine Art Photography.
Spectacular work. Difficult to navigate web site but worth poking around. Prints are expensive but looking is free. Have fun.
[via Dale Allyn]

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Washington, Connecticut. This field is part of the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust. I first knew it as a corn field but this year it’s planted with grass and will be hayed in late summer.
This lone tree is the only one on the entire field and it no doubt either gives the [...]

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Aerial photography of Alex MacLean
Fantastic collection of patterns seen from the air. I see things like this but haven’t found a way to capture them yet. This is wonderful work.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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Ooh Lee has a nice collection of these square, monochromes in his stream at flickr. I’m not a huge fan of artificial vignetting but it does help with the effect he’s looking for (age) and supports the impressionist nature of the work. I do love thinking about photography as impressionism.

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What Adams Saw Through His Lens
Don’t miss the interactive feature: Ansel Adams’s Yosemite narrated by Andrea G. Stillman, his former assistant. The narration over the slide show of his images is superb.

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East Litchfield, Connecticut. For each of the twenty years I’ve lived in this area I’ve been going to see the daffodils on a farm in East Litchfield. There are acres of them between rock walls in various fields. Flowers like this on this scale is not something you see every day. Now that I’ve been [...]

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Vincent Laforet looks at Americans commuting using a tilt shift lens: The Long Way There.
Many photographers have done similar things, perspective shift and aperture making objects look toy-like. This example is particular striking and well done.
[via kottke.org]

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Warren, Connecticut. The sun was coming up as I was driving by this swamp and the light was just too good, I had to stop. Light like this changes in minutes so one has to work fast, not to mention the stillness of the water can be disturbed by a leaf, a bird, or a [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. Steep Rock Reservation. The Shepaug river is just over the near trees in what will grow into a ravine off the left edge of this image. Calling this a canyon is sort of like calling the hills around here mountains. Still, it’s a beautiful spot and close enough to my house that I [...]

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The view through a 24-70mm lens at 38mm
Washington, Connecticut. I took another walk in the Steep Rock Preserve, this time loaded for bear, with more camera equipment. There’s something about this bridge and the Shepaug River that it crosses that really captures my imagination. Part of it is that this is a small scale suspension [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. The Hauser Bridge crosses the Shapaug River within The Steep Rock Preserve. It’s a cable suspension bridge with towers and two cables draped between them and attached to the center of the bridge.
The Steep Rock Land Trust is a local version of The Nature Conservancy, a non-profit group that through donations, buys [...]

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Santa Monica, California. I’m shooting east up Wilshire catching a wooden post and rope railing with cars behind. There are four serious photographers to my left wondering why my back is to the Pacific Ocean with an incredible sunset happening and what I’m seeing in this wooden post.
When I left two of them came over [...]

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Mute (Miles) has come quite close to duplicating the mood in the first two Bourne movies: Berlin and Moscow at dusk. The only thing missing here is building lights and maybe the whole thing should be a bit darker, but it’s close. I love Miles’ work.

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Warren, Connecticut. Opened slider to shoot, cat ran out, took shot, put camera down, chased cat around backyard in snow, got soaked, came in, had enough. Going to bed.

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Warren, Connecticut. We took a hike in the woods the other day and found numerous leaves that must have been stuck on trees and had fallen off after a recent snow.
Some of us may miss summer and find winter hard going but let this leaf be your icon for the fact that the winter solstice [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. A new lookout has been built in Macricostas Preserve and Gary and I trudged through the snow to check it out. It’s ten feet off the ground which gives a photographer or bird watcher a nice perspective of the surrounding landscape. This is the east end of the swamp which is filled with [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. The landscape at Macricostas Preserve is full of photographic possibilities in spring, summer, and fall but winter presents a bit more of a challenge. This dried grass was the first thing that caught my eye and its color was echoed all day as we saw this color and texture in meadows and marshes.

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My friend Gary is visiting and he made this exceptional image of the little church in Cornwall, Connecticut last night.

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Warren, Connecticut. Anne (my wife) rolled her eyes when Gary and I announced at 11:30 pm we were making a night run down to the lake to attempt some shots. It was pitch black when I took this but a tripod allowed me to leave the shutter open long enough to capture some light. The [...]

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