Photos 2007

ha ha. i love it. i'll see what i can do...

Get to know the real me: http://unclevinny.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/eyeball/

Most recent accidental self-portrait:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/2078340975/in/set-72157603349786945/

Best one from earlier in the year:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/390698293/

"Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a tree and fruit native to the Malay Peninsula and western Pacific islands." This quote has been copied directly, without paraphrase, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadfruit. In no way do I imply these words are my own. I fully respect the work and intellectual value of these words, which have been written by another person, a person who is not me. To be clear, I share these words because I find the breadfruit to be an interesting plant. I am not attempting to pose as an expert; I am not. I do not attempt to profit from the fruits of labour of others, nor from the labour of the fruits themselves.

look at the colors of the water.

it's cold and rainy here. boo hiss on cold and rainy.

Ever wonder if maybe we're living in the wrong part of the world....?

Only every couple of hours in the winter.

We are so fortunate in northern climes, protected, at least in part, from the menacing, ultraviolet rays. As a side note, Vitamin D is on sale this week.

This is a very elegant line.

Opportunists! Freeloaders! WELFARE TREES!

This is so striking. Thanks for taking it, and thanks for posting it!

Ok dude... it's about time you said "Orange" ;-)

nice. almost looks like fabric.

awwwwwwwwwwww. my grandparents always had banana trees at their house. they're gone and their house is now a rental property (breaks my heart). but i love seeing a banana tree - reminds me of the good times, of which there are too many to count.

I had planned to start this off with "You're nuts! You and I were both there not that long ago! At the same time, even!"

But then I started counting on my fingers and it turns out that "not that long ago" is in fact over two years.

So I guess I'm the nut!

Thank you for this lovely slice of aloha!

Didja finally break down a buy the the Widepan 617 (http://shop.lomography.com/widepan/widepan617/), or is this some sort of digital stitchery magery?

Hey, buy the way, did you ever get that Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC1? (http://www.noise-to-signal.com/2003/10/possibly_my_nex.html)

Nope, no widepan. It's digital panoramic stitching courtesy of MS Research and Windows Live Photo Gallery.

I didn't get that panasonic because Leica actually decided to make a digital M, and I'd rather save my shekels for that (anyone want to buy $6000 worth of photos from me?)

I looked at Leica's web site.

The digital M looks really really cool.

I love your work Dave. YAFPBD (yet another fabulous photo by Dave). I like the different layers of different textures here.

Who is the demon with the glowing eyes in the reflection? A friend of yours? A holiday window shopper?

ooh! that's spooky!

Now that's cool.

Gaudi!

Some structural engineer should come along and tell us why every other floor is convex, then concave, etc. Cool photo, even without a nerdy explanation.

.....and the answer is ...

Air Pressure

I'll fess up here and say that although the mirror windows are flexing in different directions, they're only emphasizing the already weirdo shape of the building being reflected.

Nice juxtaposition!

Where's David? How did you stay out of the image?
Are you standing just off to the side?

I'm shooting halfway up the side of the building, so I'm 50 feet below.

Here's an aerial image of the area with pushpins showing where everything was. Firefox and IE7 only, Safari doesn't play well with others:

http://maps.live.com/?v=2&cid=1A622E3CC2F261BF!411&encType=1

The waves and reflections are cool, but I also like the yellow and blue :-)

Yeah, but this one still leaves me feeling a little blue... possibly even bruised.

The lamp stares at the emptiness in the room, Zen-like in its trance.

I would do so much better with rotational kinematics if I had pictures like this in my text book.

beautiful.

Very noir-y/Arthur Hitchcockian.

It's you, taking a picture of a shadow of you taking a picture of a shadow of y... uh... yeah.

Very noir-iterative ?

Wow! This woke me up! Thank you!

Whoa!

WOW! That IS yellow.

Gorgeous.

har har.

Wow. You weren't kidding.

I thought it looked nice on mine too, until the colours just started trembling and burst into tears for now apparent reason,and are now running down my monitor and collecting into a smeared, swirling puddle of pixels on my desk.

You shouldn't have brought up their "colour management issues". And saying "Hues your daddy" was truly unnecessary.

Meow!

Hey, how's the old hood?

the first thing that came to mind when I looked at this one is "raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens"... just something about dewdrops and greenery and pretty light, I guess :-)

Of course it could also have something to do with having watched Mary Poppins a total of 1,242 times end to end over the course of the last 12 months.

What about the"People", "Us", and "Star" that grace your kitchen counter? They deserve to be photographed in nice light too. :-)

I second Heather's idea. "People" deserves good light as well.

My first thought when I saw this was "Damn! He snuck into our house and photographed my bedside (and living room)!" :-)

Very nice. I like the texture.

Fork, Mother!

Why not a series of photos taken while flossing?

Taking pictures while dining? What would Miss Manners say?

Or at least, that's how it appeared. But a few moments later after the green glow faded, and their vision was restored, the senior officers of the Enterprise rubbed their eyes and slowly looked around in confusion and awe. They were sitting on a bus that was trundling down a crowded street. Judging by their surroundings they appeared to have materialized sometime and someplace in the early 21st century. The vehicles were all still powered by conventional fuel and moved along the ground, and the city streets and sidewalks were all dirty, drab, concrete.

Meanwhile, back on the starship, the junior officers were attending a eulogy for the recently vapourized bridge crew and preparing for battle with the strange, green, anamoly that continued to pulsate and bob in space in front of them.

I love the Metro! It was a bit daunting at first, what with calculating the different fares and whatnot, but after trying to navigate the Beltway, I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to use the Metro to get around. The only drawback is the crazy factor. I see a crazy lady everytime I ride on it. One likes to salute the coming trains SS-style.

Love this one. My dad helped dig the tunnels for the Metro in the 70s & today's my birthday, so this was a nice treat to see your photo.

Well thank god! You had me worried for a minute there.

Seriously, this is a lovely abstract, with nice contrasts no less!

Way cool photo!

...indeed!

Coincidence?!? I think NOT!

This is a beautiful, solemn, photo.

Red! Green...! CHRISTMAS COLORS!!!!

Dude, that's not red and green.

Whatever you say, Grinchy!

This is nicely framed!

Oh! Oh, I didn't even see the face in the tree at first! I was so fixated on those fascinating leaves.

Man. That *really* looks like "The Scream." Uncanny.

What fascinates me most about Munch is that his style, as an artist, completely changed later in his career. Completely. As Randee of the Redwoods put it with his usual profundity :), "It's like the factory's still there, but it's making different stuff now."

this one's way way way cool.

I'll let you know weather I like it after a few more people chime in. You know, so I can see which way the wind is blowing.

I bet you think this comment's about you, don't you, don't you?

I think this is a breath of fresh air, myself, but don't let that go to your head or anything.

If it looks like a duct and quacks like a duct...it's a duct.

I know...puns like that really grate on the nerves.

If only there was some way my RSS reader could screen out posts like this one.

I know y'all think you're clever, but it's just a lot of hot air to me...

sour?

only if you whine!

Is that Alan?

That was my guess too, Heather!

Both correct!

Dude, this is so abstract.

Red onion?

The Canadian gets it in one. Nice job identifying the exact kind of onion, too.

... I think I see myself in the reflection of that glass ;-)

Weird.. on first glance my first thought was "snowflakes"... must be my Canadian blood ;-)

It actually looks like a person waaaaaay up high, doing a swan dive off a tight rope. The wing is his lower body, and the head & tail are his arms.

I am really liking this series - and this one in particular.

You know me... I don't know jack shit about photography. But both this one and the one from yesterday don't look photo-blurry to me, they look photoshop-blurry. Is it my imagination? Should I be able to tell?

Well, whatever you did here, the effect to me looks cool! This building here looks like an up-close shot of a model or a doll's house (you know, the way buildings look in those old Godzilla movies). This may not have been the effect you were going for, but I think it's interesting on can manipulate the real to look so artificial and vice-versa.

Either that or a Spiderman complex. :-)

Sadly true :-)

Thoreau would dig it...? Oh, maybe not.

close ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13937566@N05/1693190328/in/set-72157602611134628/

You could say "IL". That's what I said.

It's obviously two legs of spindly-kneed robot. He's a terrible swimmer, but his feet can double as floor hockey sticks.

Saw the eye before I saw the title. Nice :-)

I love the angles and perspective here.

That is just cute :-)

Aaahh! This kind of freaked me out because it took my eyes a second to register that there were eyes in that bag. Aaahhh! Creepy and Halloweeeny!

Ed!!!

brilliant!

You Northwesterners know how to have a good time! I saw some familiar faces in those pics.
Be careful!

I think it was either you or Rob who told me "If you hear a redneck say 'hey, look at me', run the other way." I thought about that a lot with the guns going...

Why no, actually, I am *not* done with the DAE love!

David, this picture made me see something "ordinary" in a very non-ordinary way.

Thank you.

Look at how the light changes 'texture' halfway up the cup, near the top of the handle. The vanishing shadow of the handle, looking like a ghost highway into the depths of the cup, is great too. And I'm not even done--there's a lot more I could say. You really, really made the most of this one.

Wow! The perfect blend of your wild/abstractionist and tidy/geometricist/realist instincts. *Nice* synthesis.

I'm checking this one out on my iPhone right now and as usual I ignore the title (it's a fun little thing I like to do with your photos, btw :-)) and the first thing it looked like to my was an ultrasound photo. And of course you can guess what my next thought was ;-).

Yup... on the computer I still see a fetal ultrasound on first glance. :-)

Mmmm... nope :-)

That is exactly the right way to look at my photos... the titles are really titles of the posts, not ever titles of the photos. I don't think I've titled a photo in my life, except for descriptive titles ("cherry blossom #4", etc.)

No sooner had Scotty cried out "Brace y'erselves, she's gonna blow!" than the pulsating anomoly they had been watching intently on the view screen suddenly expanded and engulfed the ship, casting an eerie green glow on the bridge and vaporizing everyone inside.

Man, Star Trek would have been so much better with Heather as a writer.

This is wonderfully painterly. A la Klee or Kandinsky.

I'm loving the whole Space theme :-)

Your influences are showing. I like the motion, round curve of the first person's leg, and the second person in the background.

Well done! Awesome photo. One of my favourites!

Wow! Is it coincidental that this got posted at the same time the solar eclipse (from Saturn) was posted on the Well.

And yes, I have tried to post before (three times!) and nothing happened. I was wondering if you had banished me.

One of my favorite subjects, captured beautifully. How can you not love urban autumn in the rain?

Hmmmm - no HOT mannequin legs in this one.

I can't figure this out at all. Well done!

I can.

I like the mannequin series. This one seems like they're dancing in earnest, fighting against dark odds. I'm torn between pity and cheering them on.

I like the many overlapping transparent layers on these window shots.

...I like the HOT mannequin legs!

It took a while before I noticed the figure on the left. The entire image is intriguingly unsettling.

uh, yeah! what Tim said.

Nice raindrops!

I agree. It feels like "normal" again finally.

What a wonderful photo! It captures so many aspects of water and light, in beautiful Northwest grey.

Moldy, ill-remembered pumpkin is preferable to the most succulent and photogenic squash!

Ha hah, you hater. That's not mold, it's 'ow God made 'em.

My favorite so far is the blue ballet. Not sure why.

They're Galeux d'Eysines, and are great for cooking.

Less nasty squash, more delicious pumpkin, please!

Bite my delicious squash, tomato boy.

I love this one. The colors and shapes just say "autumn harvest" and "trick or treating" to me.

My favourite colour! Beautiful.

I'm amazed by how this picture brings out every single water droplet - wow!

Hooray! For anniversaries! And birthdays! And happy toddlers! And clean ones too! And... oh.... WOOHOOOOOOOOO!

Congratulations on the big 1-3! Hmm. My husband's birthday is also six days before our anniversary...hmm!

This is a most joyous and wonderful photo. May you all continue to have much joy of each other formany years to come. :-)

I've always thought that the colour on the photographer was a little odd, myself.

Is the shutter lag better than most smaller digital cameras?

It's definitely better, but even when I'm manually focusing there's still some time between when I press the shutter and when it actually takes the picture. If it's predictable, I'll be able to learn that rhythm, but I'm a little dubious that it is.

Any other drawbacks so far? I'm guessing it has much less "noise" than my Powershot A610?

I started writing a long comment and then decided it made more sense as its own post: Some thoughts on the G9.

So it looks like only the big jars get blue ribbons. Note to future contestants! Also, looks like it was a 28 way tie for first?!?

As near as I can tell from the entry information, every entry gets a ribbon, first through third place, and then the actual competition is for the best in show type awards.

That's always been one of my favourites songs. And what a perfect photo for it :-) Happy Birthday! Here's to many more toys in your future!

I would have liked to have seen more thumbtacks, birthday boy.

I don't really know the style of filmmaker Ingar Bergman, but this is the kind of image that comes to my mind when I think of his (or other bleak northern) work. Minus the mule, of course. There's always a black crow.

Wow! So tactile.

Beautiful lines!

Lacecap Hydrangea - and nicely done!

http://www.hydrangeashydrangeas.com/lacecaps.html

It's a hydrangea, isn't it? I love them - so pretty.

I love how all the veins on each petal show up here. I don't know what you are doing photographically to get this, but it is extremely cool. Even if the plant has a weird name.

This is beautiful and eerie at the same time. Don't go into the house Timmie!

Hi! I found your posting while Googling John -- his wife, Colleen Gallagher, another fabulous potter, has recently made a web site for them. Here's the URL: benngallagher.com

Enjoy!

This would be great foreshadowing if you were to post a photo in the future of the same hotel ablaze in huge flames.

Fact: People who drive white cube vans live in houses with wood panelling in the basement.

Hmmmm... we have wood panelling in our basement. Maybe we should get a white cube van. You know, for the soccer team.

These are nice. I do like these texture and light pieces as they are so quiet.

This one's my favorite of the series.

This shot shows the glass' transparency, but also that it is there, as well as showing how it layers with the light and objects behind it. Very cool!

So I like the picture, but for me the post title is really the icing on the cake.

Thanks! I like the work to have layers of meaning.

ugh!!!!

Oh good grief, but this one made me laugh so hard I snorted. Gotta pull myself together before my next meeting :-)

Ah, yes, but is the cheesecake excited about him?

I dunno, but I have to say that it was the best damn lil' cheesecake I've had in a long time. Blueberry flavor! You can get them at the Pike Place Market. Ohhhh man, I need to go get another one.

I *love* this one.

Delicious!

This blue is intense and amazing. I assume you had to do something to the photo after taking it to make it look this shade of blue.

BUTT PUN!!!!! - hahahahahaha!!!!! - OMG You said BUTT PUN!!!!!

I love it. You should do a series. I'd love to see Blurcat, and blurtoddler next :-)

hmmmmm - I know this curb

This is an awesome picture :-)

This one is cool! And an aptly worded title :-)

People still use those kinds of telephones?

Goodness, how archaic.

Richie Rich has one.

I like how the transparent layer overlaps the background here.

Prettiest stack of chairs I've ever seen!

Seriously - I love this one and the previous one (Seattle walk 2) - I like how the yellow chairs look against the background with little bits of the same yellow in the out-of-focus leaves. And I love the red hearts in the previous one... I think you've talked about it before, but I like the photos whereyou kinda focus in on just one or two colours - simple but brilliantly pretty.

You wacky photographer you.

One has to ponder, "...Boy..." or "...My little...".

In that context it not very "urban" ... or is it?

Maybe Z wrote this as a reminder to you of what she wants. :->

Poo!

The title implies there will be more! Cool!

I like this. It looks like a magazine shot almost. At first I thought it was a poster or ad for something.

Finally! An action shot!

This is my favourite. Great photo!

It looks like it's flying!

So, dude ... all the clouds were going the wrong way until they put up this sign, right? Makes total sense.

It means no left turn?

Totally makes sense - there are way too many power/telephone lines in thie hood ...

You all may now carry on with what you were doing ...

That cloud in the bottom right is pissed...

this is beautiful. URBAN BEAUTY. like the works of Australian painter JEFFREY SMART.

I love it :-)

Hi Puppy!

Actually he's the driver. "Back to Oz with you all!"

Is it considered photographically bad (or boring) to show the back of people's head or are you breaking some other kind of taboo by doing so?

It's just that when you look at a collection of photos from a beginning street photographer, you'll see a lot of photos of the backs of people's heads -- because that's safer, less scary, etc.

I dunno, that lady's hair is kinda creeping me out a bit.

Sounds great to me.

Or, if you're like me, you get really good at taking pictures of "your kids doing something" from behind them; getting excellent pictures of the backs of their heads.

mmm... .like.....

I especially like this one.

Whoa. At first blush, it looks like debris from a tornado being hurtled at a storm chaser.

Hurtled at, v. 1) a cross between "hurled at" and "hurtle towards". 2) Evidence that college doesn't always work.

This makes me feel like I am in a Lava Lamp. In a good way, of course!

See, here comes the abstraction again :)

You had a good long run in the Land of the Representational this time.

AWESOME picture :-)

Definitely the prettiest picture of a concrete garage that i've ever seen! I love the colours :-)

I like how you were able to bring all the little raindrops into focus and fade everything else into the background here.

Uh...what does a dude in spiky leather with his sack hanging out have to do with a solstice? Is it the grill?

I thought they were showing the new summer fashion line...

This year there were definitely a lot more "WTF?" groups than I've seen before. I think RFKJ has it -- some sort of "S&M picnic" theme. The sack racers were part of this same group.

I'm voting for the lady in the orange dress. "With the googlie eyes, three dollars."

Yay!

Can you feel the photosynthesis? This makes me want to go eat a salad or something green...

This is a cool, but eerily ghostly image.

Do you have any colour photos of the Koi pond?

Not with the Koi in it, no... happy shiny greenery, yes :-)

How much per night? Is breakfast included?

I love how this photo shows every single little wrinkle and crinkle and shadow on the pillow cases. Very cool!

I always forget how _small_ they are! No wonder they went (nearly) extinct!

Oh look. A buffalo. You just had to rub it in.

:)

These are creeping me out. His head looks is a mine field all pock-marked with different-sized follicles.

Wow, that is *so* expressive. Amazing.

Will you never stop taunting me for being unable to see red?! Ay-yi-yi, the anguish!

I love the conglomeration of tree patterns (both tree shadows and tree itself) coming together here.

So much to like here. It makes me think.

That is a beauty!

this one's a still from some sort of spy caper, huh?

Delving into food-porn now? I might have to get one of these to match the egg photo that I bought from you a while back.

Oooh, link to the egg photo, please...!

That'd be this egg photo.

Are you planning to do a Western North America version of this? :)
http://www.amazon.com/Stray-Shopping-Carts-Eastern-America/dp/0810955202/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3721261-3854565?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179240759&sr=1-1

Hah! No, I think I'm going to do the related fashion and lifestyle magazine for shopping carts.

Dude, it's crooked.

... and the sign part with the words is missing ...

See, I *wondered* when you were gonna break. I was watching those super-clear, super-specific "shop" pictures, and I thought, "It's coming. Oh yes, it's coming like a summer storm."

I really like this one. The shallow depth of field looks great.

These are like little poems of light. Very nice series.

This *really* made me laugh. Thank you.

You mean "Green Built" sculptures, right?

:-)

Are you have Christo fantasies again? :->

Somehow I think Miz Becky would object to me TP-ing the inside of the house.

It is very cool how you were able to make everything else in this fuzzy and blurred, except for her face and upper body. The difference in these qualities drew my eyes right to her.

I like this series, particularly the "keyboard" shots of people at the crosswalks.

And bonus: she has a halo!

My head feels like that guy's belly.

I like the steam from the personhole.

As serious as this looks,
I have to say,
ironically it's halarious!

I just can't get over how real/in-depth each raindrop looks on these petals, not to mention, again all the shades of black and white colors (no quotes here, Savannah!). I don't know the official term for this effect in photography, but I like it!

nice series. i appreciate the broad tonal range in this particular frame. it hints strongly of lilies in a garden pond for me.

What interests me about this series is that I associate dogwood with the south, but you bring an incredibly Asian sensibility to bear on it, so I experience this huge disconnect between what I'm reading ("Dogwood") and what I'm seeing (which is more like how Hawaiian flowers would be photographed).

(Do they have dogwood in Hawaii?)

Spot on as usual. The Asian influence on my vision is clear in all of my work, whether design, photography, or pottery.

When I threw my first bowls on the potter's wheel, what came out of my hands were not flat western-style soup bowls, but tall, narrow-footed rice bowls, the right size to be cradled in the hand while eating rice. I didn't set out to throw rice bowls; that's just what my assumptions about bowls drove me to throw.

The same thing is true with my design work, where my aesthetic is very spare and clean, and my approach to color reflects traditional Chinese painting -- all black and white and gray with a spot or two of intense color. Very different from my mom, for example, who has always had a much wilder color sense than I do.

Also in design and photography, I definitely structure space the way traditional Chinese paintings do, with a lot of use of the main subject off center and other elements balancing it across the composition -- in fact, it wasn't too hard to find a painting structured exactly like this photograph: Fan Kuan's Travellers Amid Streams and Mountains.

I'm pretty sure we don't have dogwood in Hawai'i.

This is my favourite of the 3

Man, these colors are great. I like the b&w that you posted, but the tones in here really come out. Would like to see same treatment on the next two pics to compare.

Wow! The texture and richness of "colors" in this B&W is amazing!

kewl kontrast.

One day I will get to take some black and whites that look like this instead of the grey sludge I normally end up with ! Nice pic.

No need to put colors in quotes. Black, white and gray are colors. Tremendously variable and subtle ones, in fact. Look at an old movie sometime :)

Dang it. I put my order in too soon ;-)

We always welcome repeat customers ;-)

Hey, that's wiggin.

Ooh, Mr. Abstraction is back!

I am really bored and you just gave me a good idea TAKE BOREING PICTURES!!!!

Where was this taken? It makes me think of an amusement park; what a fun image :-)

Does it destroy the mystery if I report that it's another window from the same store as yesterday's photo? In fact it's about 15 feet to the left :-)

Hmmm, I have a question about this. Were you "on a public thoroughfare" when you took it? If not, did you need to ask permission from whoever owned the store/venue/home in which these dresses were hung?

Yep, I was on the sidewalk shooting into the store.

Here's where the exception comes, though — if I was shooting for a bridal wear magazine, for example, I'd have to get permission from the store owner.

For the "on the street" case — If I shot your photo on the street and then used it in an ad, or in an editorial context that applied a specific intent to your image (that is, not "people on the street in your city" but "overstressed moms attacking their kids"), then I'd have to get a model release.

It's slightly more complex than that, but the general rule is: in a fine art context, it's OK.

So... with http://portlandparents.net/ , I can take random pictures of parents at parks in Portland and post them? Not a specific intent, just "some park pictures."

As they say, I Am Not A Lawyer, but I think probably not, because that's assigning editorial intent -- what if someone's an uncle, but you imply they're a father?

In any event I can't pretend to be an expert about this, since I never shoot editorial except in very clear cases (like shooting the circus). I definitely recommend Bert Krages' book Legal Handbook for Photographers.

i lke the title.
and the dof
and the photo
and the potential for this to be a really good emo album cover

I'm not sure if that last line is a compliment or an insult :-)

I like it. At first, out of my peripheral, I thought it was two hummingbirds :-)

I like this... the hint of green makes it slightly less bleak in my eyes :-) I'm all about spring right now. Soakin' it in. Ahhhhh blue sky and sun shine.

Goat stew? Goat skewers? Goat surprise!?

...Just BBQ it ....

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

The grass is always greener with these goats...

Dude, once you go "goats_x" you never go back :(

/*cries*/

That is one content looking goat. I've never thought of goats as cute or even "pretty" but your pictures sure do bring out both qualities rather well :-) I've loved these photos!

Thanks! I'm happy with this series; I think they show my affection for these goats.

It's not too wierd... there's a flickr group for it
Goats Goats Goats!

I'm a member of it too. I think its the pupils... its unnatural... horizontal rectangles? freaks me out.

I vant to keese ewe! :->

One thing I like about more expensive digital cameras like yours over less expensive digital cameras like mine is an actual "depth of field" :) Love the fuzzy goat.

nice nice nice nice nice nice nice

I keep looking at this photo. Did you black out parts on the left and bottom right, or is that really the way it came out?

All photographs are abstractions and distortions of reality. There is no "really the way it came out"...

That said, it was already pretty dark on the sides. Pushing that to completely black made the graphical statement stronger.

Oh yeah, that's what I thought. I whole-heartedly approve of distortions, as you know.

I love the color balance in this shot.

What is that, drain cleaner? Has Juan been vomiting blue liquids again?

David - if it makes you feel any better at all, t his is what my backyard looks like right now....it is! We have had nonstop Texas rain storms, and my little yard is turning into a swamp, I think I saw some gators out there yesterday!
But I can't take a picture, because I only have the onld fashioned cameras that you have to use film with...if I were to get a decent digital SLR camera, what would you recommend? Should I go "pre-owned"?

on the deck

wouldn't having a lanai on the deck be a little redundant? Silly Juan.

Silly Juan.

....mmmmmm.....
cold beer
.....mmmmmmmm.....

I love the "pinkness" of these photos.

nice DOF

I am now immediately happy :-)

Well, at least you didn't say "here we grow again", cause that one is far too overused.

Is there such a thing as the opposite of shift-tilt photography, to make small things look HUGE? That would be cool. And scary. And a good project for doin' while you're home barfing!

Okay, so I'm a little behind on reading the site. But this image... so striking. The tone and texture of the sky, the organic shape and the inorganic shape holding down their own corners but reaching out to each other, the implications of Japanese design, the War Of The Worlds bits, the classic line of top-left-to-bottom-right, etc. Not only visually arresting, but classes could be taught off this photo. Fo' shizzle. Wreckanize. Can't believe this is the only comment. What what!

That's a good 'un.

This is so beautiful and like Ikebana.

Oooh... THIS is COOL!

This looks like a view from inside the Mothership. Kewl!

orange trees are crazy

Brilliant!

Wow - I can see each bud on each little twig - very cool!

In the half-tone light of a young morning
she sighs and shifts on the pillow.
And across her face dancing, the first shadows fly
to kiss the Pussy Willow.

No, not mine, Jethro Tull :)
Love the weather series. Thanks for the grey rain.

not your fan boy or anything - but man - these colors are killing me. I am dying to ask about your settings.

I don't have my RAW files in front of me but the general idea is:

1) Shoot RAW, using the whibal or some other tool to balance the color accurately (always easiest for me to start from a "known good")

2) In ACR, drop the color temp by about 500-1000°.

3) drop the saturation by 20-40 points.

That's all I'm doing, in a nutshell.

I want to get Feb 23rd, Feb 26th and this one each simply framed and hanging in a row above Bobbin's crib.

They've been added to my growing list of DavidAdam "must purchase" photos :-)

I mean 25th, not 26th. But I love 26th too. Ack. I'll just put all 4 on my list :-)

We here at Noise to Signal would be delighted to help you expose the delightful Bobbin to fine photography :-)

look at those colors. seriously.

But were you on the road more travelled or the road less travelled when you took the shot?

I wonder if babies start off thinking that that odd, swoopy-and-prongy glyph means "those little round red things" as opposed to "*three of* those little round red things."

In the very beginning, I imagine they don't see it as anything other than a part of the whole picture...

Happy, bright and fun! i'm definitely looking forward to this series :-) Great idea, Dave! :-)

TAKE THAT shitty, rainy Saturdays!

Perspective really makes me scratch my head -- or turn my laptop upside down! Cool effect...

This is like GNARLY, dude!

Rough.

Woof! Woof!

I see gold in them thar trees.

That is absolutely gorgeous.

This is, I think, the most beautiful photo I've ever seen.

I really like the post-processing you've done here. The colours look fantastic.

Having a hard time reading that, due to the glare.

Um, are you sure?

call me crazy, (and many people do) but this one speaks to me on a "cosmic" level. or maybe i've had NASA pic-o-day on my desktop too long. strangely cool nonetheless.

ice creepy color/texture thing going on there

Titanium?

You could save a lot of printing costs by selling these!

Clearly you've never priced white ink.

You're *still* printing on black paper?!

I got a good price on a bulk order, what can I say?

Wow! Is that from Oregon?

I second that "wow"!

Thanks lads. It's not Oregon at all, except in the historic "Oregon Territory" sense. It's right... about... here.

I always wondered what happened in those fields. Now I know.

A bit of local folklore: I once asked why that field has remained undeveloped, but has a basketball court and the appearance of a parking-lot-to-be. The answer? Nintendo owns the field and is holding on to it to spite Microsoft, who clearly wants it for their expansion. True? Who knows.

Bamboo 2 to you, too!

WOW!
More bamboo! A week of bamboo! A month of bamboo! Bamboo out the yazoo!

Here's to another exciting year ahead! And thanks to Dave for the link to Josh's website - I had no idea he did such cool metal work, or that your mom had her own site too. So, where is your Dad's? :)

This looks like an animation about to come to life!

Save the cheerleader, save the world.

It's like Martha Graham, stretching towards the sky...

Needs about 10 more years.

HA!

I've often wrought over over-wraught bananas.

It's over between me and these finely-wraught bananas.

I like this one. How the top and bottom frame the photo. And it's emphasis on shape over value.

Hey, it's a red rectangle. Kinda like a Rothko?

http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/abstraction4.shtm

Pretty.

I like all the triangles. This one's pretty cool!

This one just glows happy yellow. This would be a great picture to have in a kitchen or a restaurant (or anywhere, really).

Yes, this is one happy photo. Nice demonstration of photography as poetry. :)

Yes. Very nice enjambment.

I love this!

Where's the
enjambment in
the photo?

And don't tell me "Exactly!"

I like how the light crosses over the boards here. Are you trying to say something about post-modern existentialism as it relates to Twinkie manufacturing and the rising middle class again?...

Well, Merce Cunningham would be trying to swat you with a rolled-up newspaper for suggesting that dance is not about the movement. (Later Balanchine, too.) Sometimes, the idea is that there *is* no idea. But, I agree with you. I'm not a big fan of either Cunningham or Balanchine, so there you go.

That said, I think "Graphical Light" is one of your most abstract works, despite the fact that we can clearly recognize all the elements in it. It's abstract in its *intent*, because what we're supposed to witness is the shapes caused by the blocks of light and shadow. Did you take it before or after your highly abstractified highway pictures? Is this a direction you feel like you're going in your work? It's easy to see the antecedents of it in works like "Edgar Demonstrates The Concept of Graphically Strong," but it seems like it's getting more pointed now. Maybe that's my imagination.

Anyhow, the relationship of abstract artists to their ideas is an interesting one. Arguably, abstractionists are *more* involved with their ideas than representationalists, because representationalists can count on their subject matter to do a lot of their communicating for them, while abstractionists have to somehow make it work without signposts. (If Delacroix is 'feeling' "the sadness of life," he can choose a subject that will help him express that, like a solitary aging man. If, say, Klee or Kandinsky are feeling the same thing, they've got to make it come through in their hand and their color choice and what have you.)

So anyhow--as you (seemingly) get more abstract, do you find your ideas becoming more important to you? Or are your ideas starting to merge with your visions such that they're becoming completely ineffable?

Merce notwithstanding, I'd argue that even the most abstract dance has to do with ideas about movement, which are then expressed with movement — but I'm hardly an expert. Perhaps the choreographer will chime in here.

That sense certainly feeds into this photo, where what first interested me was how the light and shadow seemed to me to be applying as much structure to the space as the concrete and steel. So this photo is an attempt to express those ideas about structuring space.

This was shot after the freeway photos*, but it definitely comes out of the same thought process. About six weeks ago I was taking one of my regular walks around the neighborhood with The Kid in her stroller. I was thinking about complexity, and how ordinarily the way I deal with complexity in my photography is to isolate some element and throw the background out of focus.

I remembered some advice that Ted gave to Christina — try doing the opposite of what you'd usually do — and I figured that I should do a series of photos where the point is to apply order and structure to the subject, and at the same time embrace the complexity in the composition instead of getting rid of it.

Since it's winter now, I had plenty of good candidates in trees that had lost their leaves. Unfortunately most of these are too detailed to make any kind of sense online, but here's a sample that might get the idea across.

I'm not sure any of the photos that came out of this project work that well as final images, but the exercise clearly had an effect, in that I'm much more confident in my handling of these kinds of complex images. The first time it happened, I didn't even notice until later — had I shot this bleak landscape before that exercise, I probably would have gotten in close to the Queen Anne's Lace and tried to completely minimize the background.

I don't think I'm ever going to be a primarily abstract photographer; I'm too interested in the world as such to really be happy spending that much time inside my head. But I do think that kind of more assured and complex handling of space is a good direction in my work. I don't think my ideas are becoming any more important than they were before — I'm just better able to express them.

*Curatorial note: The photos I post on Noise to Signal are almost always posted in the order I shot them; in the cases where they're not, they're usually clustered in groups that are posted in order. Art History types can always look at the filename of the photo, which includes the date (in GMT) I shot the photo.

I'm in the "A painting is made of paint" school. Mostly because it's so easily forgotten.

Shouldn't photography be about light AND dark?

For me, it's mostly about the dark.

This is tres cool. I love these patterns.

Okay, now this pic is sweet. It snowed here in Nashville two nights ago, and I thought... "It'll snow again tonight and I'll shoot some epic snow-fallen pics tomorrow."

So, it didn't snow again that night.

I hate myself.

Attention -- Cuter footprints are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/82281724/in/set-72157594327938747/

My favourite is still Dildo, Newfoundland :-)

Feces, Spain has moved to the top (err...bottom?) of my list.

I drive past Calabogie twice a week. I am not sure how much boogie-ing goes on there though. It's pretty tiny.

Other interesting place names in Ontario:

Batawa (named after the Bata shoe factory there)
Kinmount (the unsavoury jokes at the expense of its friendly residents are virtually limitless)
Balls Falls
And of course, Bobcaygeon, home to a pet store named "Bob's Cage 'n' Pets".

This makes me think of blood vessels...

what are the other secrets the snow is hiding?

... having forgotten that the cat box is in the basement ...

Signore Baffo!

Yup. And I married this man :-)

Hey, I know a guy who looks just like that!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/347250625/in/set-72157594230100127/

Yes, but I want more, dammit!

Could happen... I'm about to finish up my breeder leave, so I may get pressed for photos :-)

I am feeling the warmth of the Mediterranean sun on that self-same place!

Oooh - I love this one! Great photo!

Ahhhhh.... very pretty and warm :-) Bringing back sweet memories too! Thanks Dave!

Bellissima! You may tempt me to add to our David Adam Edelstein Gallery...

I *love* this one. How did you do it??

Nothing more complex than careful use of a reflection in a puddle.

Maybe if it had a kite caught in its branches and torn to shreds...

Or a raven perched on one of the branches with a glint in its eye and clutching something resembling the skull of a shrew in its beak...

Or maybe with a serial killer perched with a bloody chainsaw staring eerily at you from behind a muzzle.

What am I saying...that's just silly!

Quite. Hey - you got any cheery colour in that collection of yours? Maybe some old Hawaii photos? Or are ya saving them up for February when we'll all be REALLY be needing it :-)

I like this. It kind of reminds me of images one might see on "Oregon Field Guide" or in the winter months Oregon Public Broadcasting guide.