Posted in Art and Design, Flat Macros, Objects, Photographers on Oct 8th, 2008 No Comments »
maraid has an incredible collection of scanned and photographed Japanese matchbox labels and other ephemera in her flickr collection. It’s incredible to browse through it and makes me want to get started scanning and photographing my own collection of matchbook covers and ephemera. A great winter project.
Posted in Ideas, Objects, Photo Resources on Jul 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Another reason to shoot at larger apertures to blur the background is to blur a background seam, in this case the line where the white wall meets the white tabletop. That line gets blurred here because of the larger aperture. Back corners are usually dealt with by draping fabric or paper and I [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects on Jul 14th, 2008 No Comments »
“Adapt or Die” has an amazing set of images on flickr: postage stamps.
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Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Objects, People, Photography on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. In photographing my friend Joy Brown’s studio, I caught a small reclining figure, two large pods, and without knowing it, three photographs in the upper right hand corner of this frame.
Those photographs were shot and printed by me of my own ceramic work for my MFA show at the University of Oregon in [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. Another view of two of Joy Brown’s ceramic sculptures. The pod is a large, hollow ball that joins dozens that Joy has made over the years. These are environmental sculptures that one can place out on a lawn or in a garden and move around experimenting with various configurations.
Joy’s figures, while not explicitly [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People, Places on Jun 21st, 2008 6 Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. I was over at my friend Joy Brown’s studio today doing a bit of documentary photography for her. I’ve been doing portfolio, gallery, and magazine illustration photography for Joy for a few years now and it’s always a pleasure to work with her. She’s a world class artist and a great person and [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Objects on Jun 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Great collection of car door handle images in: The handle.
As you scroll through think about car brand and design. Think about what it might be like to open the door, what flush handles do for access as well as wind noise and more. It’s a great collection.
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Posted in Architecture, Art and Design, Objects on Apr 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Bethlehem, Connecticut. A good friend of mine builds timber frame houses and thought I might want to take some pictures of the assembly of a large, Japanese-style house his crew is putting up.
Post and beam or timber frame construction is beautiful and impressive on many levels but the part that interests me the most as [...]
Posted in Objects, Our Place, People on Apr 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My wife Anne loves babies and knits and that combination has led to countless sweaters, vests, bonnets, hats, scarves, blankets and more, all hand made with love (including cat hair).
There’s nothing wrong with buying gifts and we do it more than not, but a hand-made gift that took some time, skill, thought, and [...]
Posted in Objects, Opinion, Photographers on Mar 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Chris Jordan has a great series: Running the Numbers where he makes statements about waste by showing, for example, how many plastic cups are used on commercial airlines every six hours (one million).
This series is a work in progress which means new images will appear in time. Fascinating and depressing at the same time.
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Posted in Art and Design, Objects on Mar 9th, 2008 6 Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. Last night we went to a potluck dinner (Indian food) at the home of Joy Brown, a close friend of ours who’s a world renowned artist.
Joy has a well developed aesthetic sense and she surrounds herself with beautiful things that feed it. Her home is full of color, pattern, texture and warmth, and [...]
Posted in Objects, Places on Mar 4th, 2008 No Comments »
New York City. I was admiring a shelf of wine goblets during dinner and as we left a restaurant in Soho last night I stopped and took a picture. Anne and our friend thought I was taking a picture of them and they posed. Little did they know I was melting goblets into bokeh.
Posted in Food, Objects on Feb 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Waterbury, Connecticut. Warming up with some hot sauce for the challenge of shooting my granddaughter Erin’s 7th birthday party.
Posted in Objects on Feb 21st, 2008 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We were in a mall yesterday looking for a birthday present for the grandkid and after drooling in the Apple Store I wandered into Williams Sanoma, a high end cooking tools store. I wanted to buy everything, but having all of that stuff means someone actually has to cook with it. Perish the [...]
Posted in Objects, Yoga on Feb 16th, 2008 13 Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. Anne and I were getting ready to leave after a great yoga class this morning and our "his and hers" yoga mats were crying out to be photographed. His is the orange one, more tightly wound (like him) and hers is the yellow one, looser and more optimistic. they do best leaning [...]
Posted in Ideas, Objects, Places, Stories on Feb 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
New York City. After delivering a musical instrument I sold on eBay the day before (my first eBay sale) and making the buyer extremely happy with the hand delivery which made me happy, it was beer time.
My friend had a Guinness and unfortunately I blew that shot. I was going to have a black and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Objects, People on Feb 14th, 2008 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I wish all of you a happy Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately, I have to go to New York today to deliver a musical instrument but I’m leaving my wonderful wife Anne this soapstone heart although she knows my heart is a lot softer than a rock.
I love my wife. She loves me. I’m one [...]
Posted in Food, Objects on Feb 11th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. It’s beer time and well, the light was good so it’s camera time too. This glass is dreaming of beer.
Red Hook ESB on the menu today.
Posted in Cats, Objects on Feb 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I have all kinds of mini-ceramic animals from years of buying Red Rose tea but this is the first cat I’ve gotten. I must say, the smug look is quite cat-like. Those Brits know their cats.
Posted in Objects, Places on Jan 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. Waiting for what turned out to be an incredible roasted vegetable sandwich at the Pentimento cafe at LACMA , out came the camera to shoot the silverware, salt and pepper shakers, plates, and the water.
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