Photos 2009

Love it. It looks like black raindrops.

Now that's just plain pretty. And wistful! Both.

I like this one best so far.

I love the edges on this one. So pretty. Maple leaves?

I'd curl up like that too, if I saw a bunch of gossips whispering about me.

Absolutely positively exquisite. Beautiful. Delicate. I love this.

Is that "Smile you are beautiful" as in "Smile because you are beautiful" or "You are a beautiful smile". I need punctuation and context before I can confirm that affirmation.

I love this. I just love it. No time to put on the art historian hat and formally analyze WHY I love it, but--I love it.

weird ... no graffiti ....

1. ha!
2. so nice on so many levels
3. bravo!

LOVE this, love, love love

This whole series is really beautiful. I love the look!

It seems like the apples are floating into a whirling underwater vortex.

Ça alors! Quels élèves rectangulaires que vous avez!

Ask my sister about her Grade 13 prom dress. I think the pattern for it came from a similar source. The black-and-white-rose headband may have been her own creation though. (And yes, Grade 13 was a legitimate year for high school students in Ontario back in the day.)

STALKER!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like this one a lot -- the strange sloping of the pavement and the slightly disorienting angles.

I guess there's no going back either, eh?

I'm gonna assume that's a camera she's holding and not a little can of spray paint :-)

Ain't telling!

Did I have my can of spray paint that day or just my camera?

If Helvetica says it, I must obey.

I think I will TOO!

This is really inspiring, because it seems to suggest what the author is up against. The person is determined, in the face of a seriously challenging situation. They're working with limited resources in their world, and maybe only able to reach the lower corner to write in, but writing anyway.

I don't know if I am free on SATURDA>.

Nor am I sure I know how to "Garag".

Wow! This looks like the detail from a Rembrandt painting. Incredible light, detail, and drama.

This is so great! It looks like some sort of supernatural flames.

It made me think Fire & Flames, but then it also made me think of a wild storm at sea with 20-story waves and winds spraying up the water. I pity the sailor who's out in them waters.

Wow...this is really striking...

in the source lot by the looks of it.

B/1 OPEN TRUE

kitty!

I love this.

Thanks! I meant to add a comment when I uploaded this photo:

I stared at these sheets of cardboard for months while contstruction was going on behind them.

I didn't figure out how to photograph them until a few days before they came down.

Wow. It's like an archeological discovery. I want to know more about the person, history and culture alluded to in the bottom left panel.

A lot of this was shot with the new lens, yeah?

All of it, in fact. I basically haven't taken the new lens off since I got it, aside from a couple of hours this afternoon.

That is a cool image.

A gorgeous urban image, I adore the lights in the background and the trees on the post.

This image sings to me...calmly, softly, a whisper

Ivars?

Man, you weren't kidding about the mean streets.

we keep it real, foo.

Fascinating and beautiful. It's too bad that bees sting, or else maybe the house could have remained a multi-family dwelling :)

Awesome! Something about the style and colors of the photographs give a particularly surreal feeling to the whole thing.

This one goes on my list of favorites from your color experiments.

hi this is a really beautiful photo! kinda how i'd imagine fire underwater looks like

Title implies there will be more. Excellent :-) Might one of them be in colour? I'm very curious about it.

You're making heavy-metal album covers, now?

Was it there to keep people in, or keep people out? Which side were you on?

Ain't tellin'

The blue is so deep up there at the top that I'm lost in it. How pretty.

This makes me so happy!

Aurora Ave Gardeners, REPRESENT!

bokehlicious

You could post these all year long, I would be so happy!

So would I! So beautiful.

Waaaaay cool image! And it also makes me thirsty. Interesting.

whoa - groovy colors!

Interesting. Your first hala-in-silhouette is nothing short of a formal masterpiece--a serious achievement. But this one is the one that moves me. This is the hala that I've *seen* on my trips to Hawaii, somehow inexpressibly sad.

And you try to pretend you don't like cloudy weather!?

Clouds are fine... It's cold weather that's evil.

You make briny look so pretty.I love the turquoise.

It's always striking to see how different the light is out there.

Where's that big wooden play structure?

Yeah, every time I'm home I realize I had convinced myself that I had imagined the light there.

That play structure is the Kamalani play bridge in Kapa'a. So cool.

I love the photo of Mz B with the Tree :-)

That's a home run right there, sport.

Cool squigglies.

It makes me think of the Nile River delta.

... you'll notice that the leaves of this plant are diamond plated for added traction and to reduce the slip hazards when the leaf is wet .....

That's totally what I thought of too. Seriously!

So pretty!

So you're keeping it real with kalo but 'ulu gets short shrift? :)

Beautiful watercolours!

And wears a strange hat ... OH you meant the fish ....

I love how this looks like a lapstrake dory being (de)constructed.

My God, man!

Can I help whoever's next?

Texture-y!

But... are they attached to anything?

How come you are doing the project I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to do?

One word ....

TAUNTING

See, that would almost fit within the 140-character limit. You're already a Twitterer, you just didn't know it!

He's back on the streets!

I don't know why, but I love the white railings in this photo.

An army of slinkies marching down the steps.

Yay for ferns! And for the chance to use the word curlicue.

I believe The Fern is an inspiring plant, but Wikipedia is less impressed. It offers the following.

"One problem with fern classification is the problem of cryptic species. Cryptic species are those which are morphologically similar to another species, but which differ genetically in ways that prevent fertile interbreeding."

I had to stop reading, for fear of learning other tragic fern problems. Millions of ferns are prevented from fertile interbreeding. Won't you please help?

Ooooh.... pretty! reminds me of going to pick fiddleheads in the swamp with my dad at the farm we lived in when I was 4.

cryptic species makes my head hurt.

but I do love how the curlicues become out of focus.

how did I miss this one? this is magical (I particularly like the dreamy out of focus regions towards the bottom).

Perfect colors!

beautiful!

Jet fighters!

Orange you glad you didn't... oh... wait... you did.

yum. yum. yum! colorgood70syellowyyes.

ahem.

beautiful. reminds me of thighs. in the good way.

Encore!

This rocks the house, amigo.

yes, very nice.

I like this one; it makes me think of an exotic bird. I love the colours.

oh yeaah!

Courgettes?

Nope, they're Brugmansia:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=brugmansia

Wonderful! Every time I see this it's like an invitation to explore some new aspect - color, sunlight, shadows, lines...

I keep anxiously checking the trumpets in my back yard, and they're not that orange.

Doo doo doo DOO doo DOO!

CHARGE!

No, that's a serious skin condition. See your doctor right away.

That's not fuzzy. THIS is fuzzy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugginyou/3560513865/in/set-72157618659252209/

That's not fuzzy, that's Suzee.

looks prickly to me.

the iPhone is still cooler.

I love that these look exactly like the garbage bins outside my house. Great photo!

This is beautiful. Callas were a theme for our wedding. I think they are so graceful looking.

Nothin' beats a goofy goat.

Although I was enjoying Cookbook Week :-)

Good morning fresh lettuce, you look divine.

At last, someone who understands lentils. I'd go for a week of just legume photos.

That is lovely.

This power tool has a name. A name too old, too dark to be expressed in the chick-fluff of unicode.

It has waited so long that it has almost forgotten the taste

Salt.
Copper.
Flannel.

This message has been brought to you by the disturbingly effective Canadian Educational Safety Film Board. "Saving people, f**ing them up for life".

That, my friend is funny.

In a more serious vein, it's intense to see these arty shots of a place that's a part of your life. The ladder, and this shot, are distinct little physical pieces of my life and childhood. I remember the layers of paint spills on that now-rickety ladder, and the sound of that saw running, and my Dad wearing safety goggles while he used it (OSHA lawyer, go figure). When I was in 5th or 6th grade, my Dad built a small working water wheel for my school project, in that shop (I, um, helped).

For someone with a not comprehensive set of childhood memories, these are visual haikus that evoke vivid sense memories. That is a lovely thing for photographs to do...

Or maybe ideas that used ta be good?

Ah, that's a pretty blue one in nice light.

I keep hoping to spot a "B/6 ASSIMILATED" but no luck so far at the local Trader Joe's.

Ya'll's next project: catch peoples in the act of shopping cart lifting.

I have one photo on flickr that shows some re-organizing the contents of his shopping cart

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nocklebeast/3429537296/in/set-72157607556611086/

I think I have one photo of someone crossing the street with a hot shopping cart... but it's still in the (film) camera at this point. I can't remember if it's in the Hexar or the Zorki.

It's on the Zorki. Got a couple of hot shopping carts on the move:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nocklebeast/3577081547/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nocklebeast/3577890448/

To me, this series is not so much menacing/ominous as it is somber and elegiac. It suggests the *memory* of leaves and flowers. It seems to be about time passing, or through the eyes of someone dying...fading away from the bright world.

Sad, in a distant and magisterial way. Beautiful.

I agree with Savannah...

It's kinda sad, yet wistful for me. What was and what will hopefully be again.

I like the first one the best, both the photo and title. They seem more like alert and alive creatures, with the details of the petals showing more against a lighter, bluer background.

They hunt in pairs.

You've found the flowers of evil.

mwuah-hahahahahahaha

Dirty!

Daycare.

tell me how you stayed out of the reflection...love this btw

It's not actually anything tricky; I'm barely to the left of the frame, and far enough back that the perspective shift from left to right isn't obvious unless you look for it.

This is really pretty! Shimmery! Like a silver fairy swing in a shimmery fairy garden.

Oh... uh, you, uh, weren't going for ominous again, were you? Cause if so, let's see... I guess it also looks kinda liquidy... like mercury... like a poisonous, wicked mercury-coated swing in a... sorry, it's still in a shimmery fairy garden.

Nope, this was supposed to be shimmery.

Ominous is coming, he said, ominously.

Nice :-)

HA! good one i wish i thought of it but it goes way better on your blog (probobly)
=) =) =P
sooooooo cool!
Becca

That's summer light.

Stay gold.

HEH!! You said Damp!

Beautiful, and yet oddly and colourfully... ominous. Oh Dave, you did it! Ominous Spring! Give us more! MORE OF THIS EXACT SAME STUFF!

:-)

Huh. I didn't know you could participate in conversation like a normal person. That's gotta be weird.

I'm real good at pretending.

Gorgeous, mysterious image...plus I learned a new word..."benthic."

Sometimes a photo comes up in the morning and I think, wait, didn't I edit that one out? Huh.

There are things I like about this one but that upper left area just ain't right.

Oooh! ooh! It's spring! Which means DAE might take a break from the ominous and post some pretty colour blossom photos! My favourite time of year :-)

That sure sounds like a challenge to me.

hmmm... how to make spring look ominous...

Beautiful. It's nice to see a photo that shows one shoot as an interesting individual in a community.

I love the purple grass. Cool!

In your dreams, bleakboy.

Hoping that Squeaky Z has derived some joy from the toys is the only thing that is keeping me going.

If by "less bleak", you mean "only makes you want to lie down in the sand box and ponder the inevitability of decay", as opposed to "leads you to wonder if the rake is sturdy enough to dig a shallow grave."

perfect!!

Do you really think there's a contest here? Little porcelain kid vs DAE in a burka? I will have nightmares about one of these photos. Hint: it won't involve green hair.

green hair is rare in mammals.

That's solid.

Very imposing. What is it?

No idea. You spend more time near it than I do :-)

Here it is from above.

Cooling towers of sorts

Nice!

I love this one. Beautifully complex, is what comes to mind for me.

That's an enigmatic connection, but I totally agree...

creepy

It is now, but what was it before?

This looks familiar somehow. There wouldn't happen to be a rabbit named Henri near by would there?

The color-blind dude isn't having a hard time picking out the red 'n' green on this one.

This is a really striking photo! It draws me in to so many subtlties, thinking about a common object in very different ways. It seems like several complex stories about time itself. One is the vast span of history: metal, rocks to, time, light, economics, religion, leaders. The other, a series of unique events for this coin, the accumulations and erosions brought on by countless exchanges between people.

Nice.

Very nice :-)

Nifty!

The tulips are starting to come up, and they were covered with snow yesterday! Yes, I'm ready for Spring, too!

Spring has sprung, the grass has riz. I wonder where the flowers is.

wow. i havnt a photo that is identical to this one. powerlines and all:)

wow. i havnt a photo that is identical to this one. powerlines and all:)

Beautiful!

Care to explain yourself?

I really like this. "Beautiful, yet tragic" was what my immediate thought was.

That is beautiful!

Wonderful!

Wow! That is really lovely. I love the subtle way the focus seems to wrap on itself.

An exquisite picture of the snow.

You know how sometimes in nightmares things just don't seem right, but you're not sure why? There's a point when it finally sinks in what's happening, just before the terror hits.

Nice abstractification of a familiar form.

The answer is "Up Up" for $250

This is cool. It took me a while to figure out what it was. Tim's comment helped :-)

I like the title especially and image very much, they left quite a mess.

I can never get enough of your colour photos of fruit or foliage :-)

MMMMMMMM - Butter - mmmmmmmm
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM

Pretty blue cups. Makes me wish I drank coffee just so I could look trendy and cool drinking out of those cups. I bet they work as well for hot cocoa though :-)

damn you !!
(btw nice images)

I need to take a trip to La Belle Province now.

Next time you are in Quebec, you should seek out "Sortilege" (there's an accent over the e, but my laptop keyboard doesn't like me typing in French). It's a liqueur made from Canadian whiskey and maple syrup. Sounds gross, I know, but as someone who doesn't not like whiskey, and also doesn't do the maple syrup thing too often, I was surprised to find that it is a flavour sensation, especially when served ice ice cold. Also worth trying is Chicoutai, a liqueuer made from cloud berries or "bake apples" as they are called in Newfoundland.

What a gorgeous set of photos from the market, and greatly appreciated as I look out at snow AGAIN. Sheesh.

Gorgeous!

Gorgeous!

Ok... I may be ordering some of these for our kitchen :)

Zo, tomorrow you vill zhow ze cans of Ragu, no?

These belong in a cookbook of happy comfort foods :-)

This is great! Sunny and happy and interesting.

Beautiful, the light and the organized drawers, it would be wonderful to wake up to that kitchen each day.

Very pretty and inspiring!

Just happened upon your site, lovely photos, I, too, love to find interesting light.

Oooh. Portuguese fish.

Congealed fish. Tasty

When looking at this at first on the web, I scrolled up from the bottom to the top, and the sunshine seemed hopeful, like a reminder that there's space above a crowded city. But then the shadow seemed ominous.

I guess the scrolling effect is similar to that used intentionally in film. I wonder if anyone is using it with web animation of photos.

Mysterious, eerie... This image almost puts you into a trance - the muted, soft colours in the fogged windows playing subtly over the faint, abstract reflections.

It is an image to invoke contemplation: is that a doorway on the left, beside that vaguely humanoid sculpture? What peers out from beside the droplet trails, its red eye gleaming?

This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful photos I've seen in a while. Bravo!

At first I thought it was a signed painting.

And it's not even distinguishable as French graffiti. Mon Dieux!

It's too bad that Rock Band for Wii is kind of not that great, because as much fun as I bet you had playing Guitar Hero...you would have LOVED playing Rock Band.

Where are the pictures of you on the DDR mat?

Did you see those girls on the mat? They threatened to kick my ass if I so much as asked.

That is a beautiful photo of Bobbin and Miss E! I'm gonna have to request a print of that one :) If you had a shot of them after they bashed heads it'd make for a nice contrast :) Yes, Wii is a contact sport.

It was a total blast! We had an awesome time and we're glad y'all did too :) We'll have to do it again!

Nice symbolism. If only the arrow was pointing up :)

Mine!

Why landscape, and not portrait?

I've very much been enjoying the pace of this series.