This past Saturday I had the opportunity to photograph the beautiufl fireplace surround, hand forged by Nathaniel Reinartz; and installed in an equally gorgeous arts and crafts style home located on Milwaukee’s East side. Nathaniel brought many of the formal details of the original woodwork, as well as the masonry, into his metal work. Additional […]
Author Archives: imagist
Friday: cryo-flowers
our very last blooms in slowed, yet inevitable, transition toward future conditions (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo-Macro Elmarit
Weird, wacky Wednesday
from cabinets of curiosities (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 35 mm Summicron
I hear you knocking
This fellow regularly visits the side of my cedar sided home — just below my second floor office window. He taps rhythmically and I get up and put a long lens (in this case the 350 Telyt) on the R8/DMR and tip toe out to catch him. No matter how I stalk him; wait for […]
Friday: flower — still life?
The flowering plants have fallen over, wilted, dried, gone to seed. Very little green remains “outside” — only the pines and some grasses. The days have become short and the light, more often than not, overcast, dull and gray. If I continue to produce a flower photograph each Friday it will require more planning; no longer simply a […]
Taking a photograph to make an illustration
I’ve posted this first example, of using a photograph as a jumping off point to create a digital illustration which suggests a work created with traditional art materials (such as pencils, brushes and/or paints), as a response to a conversation with another photographer. I contend that one has to use the digital tools to move […]
Look! it’s weird wednesday already
(somehow this photograph seems like an apt metaphor for our recent election results — ’nuff said) (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph
Just a photograph
Photographers may document their lives; where they travel; who they meet; what they see. Sometimes they attempt to create a photograph that may qualify as “art” or even “Art.” Sometimes they create fictional photographs; or advertising; or portraits; or illustrations; or they may document wars, disasters, weddings, funerals and other events of every sort. The […]
Forest fairy found in Wauwatosa, WI
the photographers disappear behind grandpas when fairies appear (click images for larger view) Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph
Taking It Lightly video resurfaces.
Some years ago I produced a video, in cooperation with the Center for Creative Learning, and Taking It Lightly, which has, after some time without a video streaming server, found a new home at the Light Development Video Blog.