I have published a number of images from Silo City. This is a location of grain silos in Buffalo. I have published a number of images from Silo City in the past on this blog. I had the opportunity to shoot a model for one day of my three that I spent shooting there. She happened to be a dancer and was able to strike great poses. I was trying to show the human life form in contrast to the machinery of this place. I really like this image.
This was kind of a bizarre catch. Chris Sanderson and I were driving back from Zion National Park when we stumbled upon this tourist trap location that looked like it had been closed down for the season. I always like exploring odd places like this so we got out of the car and explored. I saw this great low angle wide anglr shot and was setting up to shoot it when this chicken jumped into the picture. Was it divine intervention or just plain luck. I of course had to take the image. Fun if nothing else.
It’s pet time. A number of years ago I adopted a kitten on impulse. Well, maybe not impulse. I was visiting an animal shelter with my wife because she wanted to adopt a kitten. She found one she liked real quick and went off to the get to know your cat room. I was left to wander around and in one cage I saw the cutest kitten I ever saw. She was tiny. I asked the volunteer to let me hold the kitten. I put the kitten in my hands and she looked at me and closed her eyes. She had me. I adopted her on the spot and named her Pixel. She has been bonded to me ever since. She is quite unusual in many ways. She is a great companion and hangs with me all the time. Today I was working on an upcoming camera review and she decided the letter tray on my desk was a good place to take a nap. Frankly, it just doesn’t get any better than this. Pixel is my little buddy.
This image is an older shot but a favorite of mine. It was taken on July 7, 2005. I was in London and a few blocks away from where the bus exploded. needless to say, the day was chaotic. I walked all over London that day. They shut down the E that day. This exposure shows the Eye empty. Something you don’t see much at all. I liked the building in the foreground and the stacks. There wasn’t much color so I decided to make it black and white.
I was in NYC a few months back for the introduction of the Leica M10 camera. After the official meetings with Leica, I was sent off with the new camera to give it a try. It was a fun camera to shoot with and I enjoyed using it and the images from it. However, like I do many times I always take images on my iPhone. I did a whole series of images about Being Square and Seeing Double. Article coming soon on that project. I also did a few Pano images. The place is an architectural marvel so how could I resist doing some panos. This image is one pano made there. I’ll share more in the future.
Zion National Park in October is really beautiful. The crowds are gone and the roads are open for cars. As much as I enjoy shooting in the park I also love to wander the back roads around the park. It’s not uncommon when doing this to come across some really nice scenes like this image. This image was close by the park and was different from all the cliche images made in the park. I am driving to Zion this fall and look forward to doing a lot of backroads along the way.
As you may know, if you are a regular reader, I am big on rust and big metal things. This is an image from the waterworks pumping station in Buffalo, NY. This place is very interesting. Kind of a steampunk kind of place. Big pipes and pumps. The pump house takes water from Lake Erie and was built around 1920. It’s a great place to shoot images. This image was made with an iPhone.
Many times as photographers we get stuck on seeing the big scene. yet, under our feet or in front of us is art and we just need to train our eyes enough to see this art. These images today are abstracts found in a bigger scene. One image is a wall where numerous posters have been applied and torn off. The other two images are from peeling paint on rusty truck found near the Palouse region in the state of Washington. I’m always looking for abstracts whether it is man-made or natural. You need to keep your eyes open and always be looking.
Ladders are cool. Back in my firefighting days, I was the first to line up to climb ladders. The 50 foot and 100-foot ladders were the best. I’m not or maybe when I was younger wasn’t afraid of heights. I now have a slight fear of heights. Maybe because I have gotten a tad smarter in my old age. These ladders were shot on Deception Island, Antarctica. They are attached to what were old Whale Oil tanks. There is something about the repeatability of pattern and of course the rust that works for me in these images.
Michael Reichmann and I had many adventures. This was made on one of them as he and I spent several days exploring some of the deepest non-nnglish parts of Mexico. This was a farmer watering his horse by a flooded plain with birds flying into the shot.