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Remembering the Northeast

2011-09-18T11:12:00.000-07:00

I took this photograph at dawn on a side road in northwestern Massachusetts after an all night drive from Chicago. Circa 1980.

Mission Santa Barbara - 7/14/2010

2010-07-19T16:15:00.001-07:00

Boulevard CA (also very near the Calif/Mexico Border) 7/8/2010

2010-07-08T23:53:00.001-07:00

natural monzogranite formation.

Jacumba CA (very near the Calif/Mexico Border) - 7/7/2010

2010-07-08T23:41:00.001-07:00

Bottom picture is the US/Mexico border and houses at the outskirts of La Rumorosa on the other side of the wall. You can see the wall continues down to the left in the photograph.

Joshua Tree National Park 6/28/2010

2010-07-08T23:31:00.000-07:00

My First Shots in Medium Format

2010-02-10T21:58:00.001-08:00

Taken with a Mamiya RB67 (negative is 6 cm x 7 cm), processed and scanned by the good folks at North COunty Photographic Services (http://www.northcoastphoto.com/). Very little, if any post-processing was done to these images.

Abandoned in Mentone

2010-01-31T22:15:00.001-08:00

Rte 38

2010-01-23T21:35:00.001-08:00

Snow in Calimesa

2010-01-22T08:50:00.000-08:00

Was on my way to school when they cancelled. Shot with Canon 780 IS.

The white spots are snowflakes falling.

Claremont

2010-01-16T22:31:00.001-08:00

Photos from Los Angeles, December 2009

2010-01-10T19:47:00.000-08:00

Ones I like...reposted

2009-11-24T20:51:00.000-08:00

Hinckley Farm is changing

2009-11-15T19:03:00.001-08:00

I am not sure how there can be so many shells at a sluice on a farm.

Lost Shoes

2009-11-15T18:47:00.000-08:00

These were sitting on a bench at the corner of State and Fifth in Downtown Redlands.

Love

2009-10-01T19:20:00.001-07:00

Redlands, between Orange and Fifth, Citrus and State Streets

2009-09-26T20:01:00.000-07:00

More with the point and shoot; think of them as photographic sketches.

Click on them, though, and you'll notice it is possible to get decent detail with a P&S: the peeling paint on the counterweight in the B&W shot, the grain in the plywood of the shed, the texture of the cement in the F.W. Woolworth sign. And I downsized them for the web!

Myrtle leaves

2009-09-20T09:09:00.000-07:00

I've been mourning my former residence. The grapefruit are in the back yard where I live now (taken with Canon SD780 IS P&S); I took the picture of myrtle leaves last year in the front yard where I lived (shot with Canon Rebel XSi with a 17-40 f/4 L lens at 27mm).

5 Citrus Street, Redlands CA

2009-09-06T21:09:00.000-07:00

My son takes Spanish lessons in this building.

shot with camera phone

Have dripping clouds always been around...

2009-09-06T20:49:00.001-07:00

and I have just started to notice?

This is from Palm Desert, direct from the camera except for a small amount of increased contrast.

shot with Canon Rebel XSi with the kit lens

A few photos from 1979-83

2009-08-20T22:05:00.000-07:00

I found these images when I was going through some boxes.
They were taken between 25 and 30 years ago with a Konica T4 35mm SLR. I sent them this past week via mail to NCPS and had them scanned.

The little girl stood in a fountain in downtown Detroit in 1983.

I shot the image of the cabin at dawn on the tail end of a non-stop drive from Chicago to Worcester, MA, 1980.

The Grand Canyon in mid 1980.

The "open" sign comes from Ogunquit ME 1979.

I have been obsessed with trees since at least this shot from Ogunquit in 1979.

This is my sister in a sandstone formation in Arizona, 1979.

Trompe l'oeil

2009-08-08T09:59:00.000-07:00

Can you tell which part of this photo is a painting and which is real?

A local dentist won a contest to paint a mural on the wall of a downtown Redlands building. Murals are one of the things that make the State Street area so visually interesting.

shot with Canon 780IS P&S.

My 5 year-old son took this picture

2009-07-18T22:08:00.000-07:00

Which may be proof that he pays too much attention to the way I shoot (compose) pictures...

shot with Sony DSC-S90 p&s

2009-07-15T19:51:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture I took a while back of a lamp at floor level in a local establishment. Unprocessed.

Taken with Canon 5D and f/1.4 50mm lens

Newport Beach - art the tide makes

2009-07-14T09:16:00.001-07:00

As the tide advances and recedes at Newport Beach, it leaves marks in the sand that are gone with the next wave. Some of the waves left geometric designs, others created fanciful, temporary animal shapes.

shot with Canon P&S.

Requests

2009-07-11T10:49:00.000-07:00

Here are pictures that come from a couple of requests. There are photos I took while in MO and also there are pictures of AJ Soldo's band Hwy 38 performing at Angels Roadhouse.

Light

2009-07-08T22:16:00.000-07:00

I am trying an artisitc experiment in which I shoot with a p&s (point and shoot) camera. I say "artisitic" and that may sound pretentious, but I feel it is the opposite - I wish to see what I can capture with the available means...this is the first shot...

Shots from the airplane

2009-07-06T10:16:00.000-07:00

This storm kept us circling Phoenix for an extra 20 minutes, but it was spectacular to watch.

Waterfall

2009-07-05T16:01:00.000-07:00

I have no idea whether it is in Kansas or Missouri -it was quite a whirlwind three days- but I shot this at Powell Gardens.

Kansas

2009-06-29T22:58:00.000-07:00

James told me to shoot this

2009-06-19T20:49:00.001-07:00

James and I were lying side by side on the ground at a local park, staring up at the canopy of trees.

I tried to take a "myspace" - an arm's length self-photo - of the two of us.

James said, "Take a picture of the trees."

Shot with the 3MP camera onboard my LG Dare. I hate this phone...except this time.

Strange clouds over Beaumont

2009-06-03T19:50:00.000-07:00

A couple new ones

2009-06-02T15:08:00.001-07:00

From yesterday.

2009-05-09T10:46:00.000-07:00

Here are a few more photos from the last year or so. I included a couple of non-smiling portraits. I like to catch real emotion: happiness, anger, thoughtfulness...but there are enough people using cameras to capture happiness. Other emotions interest me more, even when they make me uncomfortable. Enough explanation...why say why?

The Hinckley Property

2009-04-21T10:24:00.000-07:00

I think most photographers have a place that they return to again and again to photograph, drawn to the things they see and feel there. The Hinckley property, up the block and across the street from my house, is my place. And it will be gone soon.

The Hinckley property is a large area of neglected land. Orange, grapefruit, and avocado trees grow unkempt there. Ducks and red-winged blackbirds skitter across a series of irrigation ponds. Rabbits and squirrels dart between the rusted water tanks and windmills that punctuate the land.

A small group of out-buildings, formerly used to store and service the equipment that managed the farm, have since been home to caretakers, migrant workers, gang members and even one man who, according to legend, bought and sold body parts from there.

In short, it is a beautiful, ominous place, cross between wildlife habitat and junkyard, just possibly the perfect setting for a "no one can hear you if you scream" horror flick.

It wasn't always a mess, but the owner died, and his brother cannot make a living from it. In order to sell the property, the brother has to level the whole area to the smooth, concrete-friendly surface that developers require.

At least that is what the caretaker told me the last time I went there to shoot pictures. He is charged with cutting down all the trees.

It is a shame, but inevitable, I suppose, that no land can lay this idle, this perfectly decayed for too long. Here are some pictures I have taken there recently.

More new pics

2009-04-11T16:15:00.001-07:00

These are all part of my "What do you mean they are oversaturated?" series. Click 'em to make 'em bigger. You may download them for your personal use only. Comment if you like one (or more) in particular. Or if you hate one or more in particular...

Some new abstract shots

2009-04-04T21:13:00.001-07:00

Comment and let me know if you think any should go into the main galleries. Click 'em to see 'em bigger.

The first blog

2009-04-03T21:18:00.000-07:00

In the last week or so, I have done a couple of on-site shoots.

One was AJ Soldo's band Highway 38 last Saturday.

The other was a portrait for the owner/promoter of the Art From Scratch gallery on Vine Street in Redlands.