Here's My Job

This is my work place

Marilyn

This is an add to my Doll gallery.  It is a doll of Marilyn Monroe, taken by candlelight and by dipping the camera to the right

Night In The Neighborhood

We had a power outage here that lasted for two days.  The first night, Dale and I went walking around the neighborhood before he left for Philadelphia.  Some places had light and others, no.  It was rather random.  I started gimmicking around with the "night" settings on my new Lumix LX5 to prolong the exposure and twirled or moved the camera while the exposure was open.  I got some very nice results, I think, and it was fun to play :~)

Playing with exposure...

In the rain, bored

Some more new shots from the neighborhood

Here are some more new shots with my little Lumix :~)

Some new shots walking around the neighborhood

On Saturday I took my old Panasonic Lumix out for a walk.  The Sony a55 is a marvelous camera but it IS a DSLT and I missed the immediacy and smallness of the Lumix, even though it is only a point and shoot.  It has taken a lot of damn fine photos in its time and I like playing with it.  Here are some shots I got in Silver Lake

More Dolls

Dolls

I love dolls.  Always have.  Very compelling objects.  I intend a whole series on dolls, but here are a couple to begin with.

Fox River Sky

Fox River

Some new photos

bit of Fall in Aurora

A Quinceañera in Aurora

I love this store window.  well, somewhat enhanced by me ;~∆

Aurora

I was in Aurora, Illinois a couple of weeks ago and wandered around the downtown taking photos.  It's the damnedest place.  Practically deserted yet scrupulously clean.  The whole place reminded me of a movie backlot with a beautiful river running through it.

These black and white shots are a new study for me.  It is a very interesting way to learn more about light and translating color, in which the photos are taken, and then transformed and manipulated using Lightroom.

Look for more to come

Harry Callahan

He is a photographer I very much admire.  He was self-taught, but arrived to such a level that he was invited by László Moholy-Nagy to teach at the Institute of Design in Chicago.  He taught at the Rhode Island School of Design for a very long time.  Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia that sums up what I admire about this man:

Callahan left almost no written records—no diaries, letters, scrapbooks or teaching notes. His technical photographic method was to go out almost every morning, walk the city he lived in and take numerous pictures. He then spent almost every afternoon making proof prints of that day's best negatives. Yet, for all his photographic activity, Callahan, at his own estimation, produced no more than half a dozen final images a year.