Saturday, March 31, 2018

Last oldie for a while I think.  A tree behind our house in NY about 16 years ago...it succumbed to wind and came down a few years after I made this photograph.  (4x5)





I think I'm getting toward the end of photographs I made over a decade ago with my 4x5 camera.  Not all of them, of course, but the ones I still think are worthwhile.  Here's one I made of a stream that I had photographed previously which no longer runs between trees like this as all those trees are gone. I'm glad I have the scenes on film, because they are not coming back the way they were ever again.  (4x5)





Thursday, March 29, 2018

Two oldies from 2004.  Sunlit leaves in a woods beside route 9G in NY (Shen Hao 4x5)








Monday, March 26, 2018

Here are a few more from the archive taken in 2004 and 2005.  The black dirt region of Orange County, NY is an extremely fertile area that was an ancient seabed.  All sorts of vegetables are grown there, especially onions.  Most of all, it's an extremely beautiful area, and I miss it a lot!  (Shen Hao 4x5, 150mm G-Claron and other lenses.)








Friday, March 23, 2018

Archive diving is a lot of fun!  I get to revisit places I used to go near wherever I was living at the time, and also see what I thought was worthy of a photograph.  This was made in Harriman SP in autumn many years ago with my first 4x5 camera.


Thursday, March 22, 2018

Sometimes the conditions that motivate a photograph are fleeting, disappearing in a moment or two, or an hour or so.  The site of this image isn't particularly memorable on its own, but with tide and sky participating, becomes interesting.  (MF Film)


Saturday, March 17, 2018

I continue to revisit places I've been to in the past to see if there's anything I hadn't seen, or didn't pay much attention to.  Well...there are!  A bunch of them.  Here are two photographs I made yesterday of a site I've been to a lot, but from a different place for the camera which yielded these 'new' views.  (MF Film #15 deep yellow filter, polarizing filter, 45mm lens)





Sunday, March 11, 2018

Here's another from the archives. The lovely little tree in the center succumbed to a storm some time after I made this photograph.  The scene is of the woods behind our house in NY, which I really do miss.  I don't miss the taxes or blizzards though.  I'm okay with where I live now.  (4x5, 250mm)





Friday, March 9, 2018

I don't remember anything about this except that I made it at a park in Croton-on-Hudson that borders on the Hudson River.  I think it's from the turn of this century.


Thursday, March 8, 2018

 I was happy to come across a binder with a lot of old negatives, the earliest of which seems to be 1998.  Here are three from that year made on Grand Manan Island, Canada.  It's accessible only by ferry. I had the most delicious smoked salmon that was so fresh it was still warm when  I bought it at a store near these docks.  (Pentax 67)







Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Like low hanging fruit, I've found most of the obvious local places that I wanted to photograph.  Now, I'm looking in the same locations, but at less accessible parts of them.  It doesn't surprise me that I'm finding scenes I like just as much as the original attractions in each.  Here are two photographs I found in a slightly remote place I've driven past countless times without noticing.  The third photograph is of a shrimp boat at its dock that I've photographed before, but this time the light and the sky differed greatly from previous encounters.  (P67, #15 deep yellow filter, Ilford Delta 100 film)