ImageFiction

Rocco & Me

2009-12-06T10:34:00.008-05:00

<- Click hereMy buddy isn't happy about cameras, even on - or maybe especially on - timers.***OKAY Andreas (see comments).... Here's some wisp of color... sigh.... I hate to break too much with tradition... why, the entire foundation of my political philosophy would shimmy, huh? Enjoy...

Candid Woman

2009-11-27T09:31:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereTammy is camera shy. The lighting was a soft, dim, restaurant stew . Which meant cranking up the IS to 1600 and grabbing the shot with the lens zoomed to max. A problem with quarter frame sensors is that they generally make it hard to narrow the depth of field and consequently tossing the foreground and background distractions into soft focus is impossible. So what to do with a

Maybe -Don't Buy The Apple Magic Mouse!

2009-11-26T10:57:00.004-05:00

Okay.... you can read my rant below. The $%^%$ Magic Mouse I bought a month ago was maddening. Today is Black Friday (I'm writing this the day after I posed this original posting). You will note that Flo suggested I take the thing back before throwing it against the wall, stomping up and down upon its carcass, then setting fire to the remaining pieces.Black Friday is NOT a good time to go to the

Thing Over Seal Rocks

2009-11-19T19:49:00.007-05:00

<- Click hereOn the edge of San Francisco.There's a thing.Above the seal rocks it sits there.Looking out.Which is what it does while we look.Back at it.Have you seen it? If not... so look. There it is.***The thing tugged at my camera's lens. Look how pristine the place is. How sterile and bare. Scoured continually by Pacific winds. But out on this point poking over a cliff into the sea, against

Baby Picture Goes Here

2009-11-14T16:31:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereI'm very good at creating candid images of children. Not so good with babies. But, since KatelynRose is the first grandniece... Well, hadda try, you know? She's actually a lot cuter than this. Thank heavens! What is it with babies that makes them so hard to capture candidly?

Then...

2009-11-08T21:33:00.006-05:00

<- Click hereWe lugged all of that stuff from the college darkroom up on the second floor behind us. It was the middle of the night. See the big thing right in front of me? That's a Korean War aerial camera. My buddy Jim Furlong found it somewhere, got us some film and found a single engine, three seat plane with an overhead wing. We took the door on my side off so when the plane banked I could

Furlong

2009-11-07T15:01:00.007-05:00

<-Click hereSo the guy says to me, "Ted, who's the most important photographer who ever lived?"I scrunches up my face, the way you do when you're digging way deep into your idea piles and I says back, "You mean who do I think did the most for the way I wonder about image making? The one guy who opened my feelings to the possibility of this stuff?""Well, yeah," He says, looking all out of

Jim & Lenny and Battles

2009-11-02T13:28:00.008-05:00

<- Click hereIn 1962 the guy on the left up there was 26. His name? Jim Furlong. The other guy was also one of my college roommates, Len Freiberg. Like Lenny, I was twenty years old and behind the 4X5 Speed Graphic triggering the shutter. Jim wanted to comment on the idea of subjectivity. You know, how opinions are all a matter of perspective, where you stand, how you view stuff. How people can

Obsession?

2009-10-20T21:52:00.005-04:00

OK enough. Took that one down.... There's a limit to my ego puffery. If you missed the image.... You are among the lucky. Heh heh heh..... <- Click hereWe're off for a visit to Peru in February. At least some of the adventure will be way up in the Andes at both Machu Pichu and Lake Titicaca. And I'd not been to the gym for seven years and my job has me sitting in front of computer screens, eating

Summer's End

2009-10-16T22:33:00.002-04:00

<- Click hereHow very soonWe paddle awaySummer...

Blonde In Savannah - 2

2009-10-08T17:34:00.004-04:00

<- Click hereDolled up for her portrait, the little cutie posed in bare feet. I let the photographer work... And like a voyeur... snuck my lens into the posing space.

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

2009-10-07T23:11:00.002-04:00

<- Click hereDoes this need a comment?

Blonde In Savannah - 1

2009-10-06T23:47:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereIt's called "Factor's Walk". It runs parallel to River Street in Savannah, Georgia. I walked the old alleyway this afternoon. It's where Craig Tanner and Marti Jeffers will hold a workshop this weekend. Participants will work on street portraits. As you can see, there are plenty of characters to grab, eh? This little star was prancing about in her TuTu. In Savannah I've found, the

Artist Series #1

2009-09-28T19:44:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereSome time ago Apple pulled the plug on its original gallery page in Mac.Com. In fact it pulled the plug on Mac.Com replacing it with MobileMe. The images which I posted on Mac.Com are still there but are forever fixed - I cannot add to them or rearrange them in any way. I think I can take them down one time, or close the folders out completely. But the gave us a lot of warning so I

Town House

2009-09-26T17:25:00.004-04:00

<-Click hereSome people collect stamps. The Landis Valley Museum collects buildings. They pluck them from the past and set them off in their fields to capture the aura of centuries of mystery. It's one of Pennsylvania's least known museums... and it's just around the corner from my gym. Lancaster County's littered with intriguing feelings.

Yellow Plus Blue

2009-09-20T14:50:00.006-04:00

<- Click hereHmmm... Is there a difference between discovery and creativity in art? Lemme try that differently. Is it all about process or maybe its more about concept? Okay... okay... still not clear, right? Sigh. When Michelangelo decided to pull 'David' out of that enormous hunk of stone... well, how much did he know before he began hammering? Had he imagined the boy/man and then dug him free

Hot Fall Award!

2009-09-13T11:11:00.006-04:00

<- Click hereYIPPEEE! After half a century of doing photographic-visual art ---- DISCOVERED! ME! Lovvit!Not enough exclamation points left in my quiver. Sorry. But it is very cool to be included among the world's top 35 Undiscovered Photographers. Thanks to Andreas Manessinger for bringing my work to the attention of the judges at the popular EpicEdits Forum. And I'm number six on a list that is

Exploring

2009-09-12T11:48:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereFor a little while yet, there are those who can mount expeditions to the golden age … which will exist until their memories don’t. When time will not check wither… nostalgia can try.

Happy Anniversary To Me • Ta-Da

2009-09-10T07:26:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereIt was on 2006.... September 10 that I did this thing for the first time.... with these guys. You know what, I'm learning all of the time and my work's grown a lot in the past three years of posting, experimenting and experiencing your public and private feedback. Thanks so much to the many thousands of you who visit this site with support and reinforcement. I have a so many more

...this kid will pay for it.

2009-09-09T21:10:00.005-04:00

<- Cick hereAm watching President Obama tell America why one seventh of the economy needs to be taken-over by the government. Why $500 billion of the payment for the take-over must come from senior citizen care. He explained that he can find this amount in wastage. I've heard government explain how it was going to pay for so much through increased efficiencies. It's not ever happened in my

Summer's Last

2009-09-07T17:15:00.009-04:00

<- Click hereHmmm.... at first I just wanted to show my buddy Andreas Manessinger what he'd miss by postponing his US trip. We drove over to the Wellwood in Charlestown. That's in Maryland and the light you see reflected in the pitcher's flashing off of the Chesapeake Bay. Which is also wafting breezes across my half dozen bluepoint #1s. The pitcher was filled with Blue Moon, and would be soon

Last

2009-09-04T21:01:00.004-04:00

<- Click hereWhere do you go when every place else has tossed you out? Here...

Lookout - New Criticism DAMN!

2009-08-31T17:47:00.007-04:00

<- Click hereGRUMBLE! Once upon a time my images were rejected from photographic sites because they were visual art. Now they are getting rejected from visual art sites because... they are filtered! See this image? I've posted the original below. There are photographic based web sites that are for images which have been enhanced by brush and specifically must show the brush strokes. Look at my

Moi

2009-08-23T20:46:00.005-04:00

<- Click hereMy friend Steven Issell was brave enough to use AlienSkin''s SnapArt on his own picture. and people have griped about the avatar I'm widely using. Sooooo.... Today I stood in front of a window, held out my Canon G10 and snapped this picture of me. Then I carefully applied the impasto option that SnapArt offers taking care to make me look as good as the basic material will allow.

Eureka!

2009-08-22T20:43:00.006-04:00

<- Click hereEver noticed how scientists are ashamed of epiphany? Read a scientific paper and you will never find the words, "And at this point in the procedure we abruptly realized that Dr. Skinny had accidentally spit into the solution and that his saliva added a stimulus to the precipitate that overcame the impasse resulting in the miracle hair restoration break through."Nope, read their stuff