I should title this photograph, "From a Winter that Was" This past one definitely wasn't! I felt a bit sorry for all the ice fisherman who used to sit on their stools on frozen Walton Lake. It did freeze, but thawed in a bit more than a week, and never was thick enough to support fisherman, skaters, or much else. The issue in question is "global" warming, not local warming, but if this year were a portent of things to come even around here, it's a major shift in the climate. I hope not, but who knows?
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
I enjoyed a wonderful adventure on Friday, April 6th. We met up with a small group of painters at the Southlands Foundation, Gentle Giants 4H club farm in Rhinebeck, NY. The painters (OH RATS*) had arranged to have one of the Belgian horses, (Turk), and a couple of donkey's available for them to paint. I tagged along with my cameras, and had a grand time ranging within and beyond the paddock where the painters were painting. We will return here (have an open invitation) many times, I think. A splendid place!!
*Old Hudson River Art and Truth Society.
*Old Hudson River Art and Truth Society.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
The two photographs below are from 2005. They were made with my first view camera (ToyoView45D), and a very modest entry level lens (Rodenstock Geronar 210). I had also just acquired an enlarger for 4x5 negatives, and couldn't wait to print these two. But, the full negatives had problems I didn't know how to solve, and they have never been scanned or printed until now. (these are scans, but prints to follow immediately). I have a sense of what to do with the prints that I didn't know back then. The challenge is to achieve in the darkroom what is so ridiculously simple in Photoshop, but nothing I do there isn't a legitimate darkroom technique as well. We'll see how well I do!
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