A couple weeks ago, I was out on 18th Street late one night, fumbling for my camera to get a picture of a cool convertible driving past, but by the time I started shooting, the camera was in the wrong mode, and I shot a short video… Remarkably, the video was pretty good - but I need to edit out the sound or something because I was upset. And you could tell. Alcohol may have been a factor… At least nobody got hurt. You gotta watch out for fussy drunks who don’t like their pictures taken… On the other hand, they’re not always so aware of what’s happening.
As a special treat, along came this guy with his blue-tinted headlamps a few seconds later. I knew they looked blue to me, but well… just see for yourself: I didn’t even have to boost the saturation. All I did was clip the black point on the master levels so the three shots would have the same overall tone. Mmmm… bread and butter Photoshoppin’.
I take a lot of these night shots along the main drag in my neighborhood. Frankly, the light sucks… but I suppose it could be worse. It’s probably more ambient light than some daytime shadows. I turn the flash off and the red hand blinks to warn me about holding steady. I do what I can…
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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:12:00 GMT
I feel like these images would be good inspiration for a cubist painter. But, where are the bowls of fruit or the newspaper front pages? If those painters worked from the mundane objects around them, then potentially, so can I. And this is the dull stuff I stare at for a large portion of a typical day. These are the pedestrian scenes that often capture my attention.
Consider the evidence: Both of these images show pen and paper - still one of my preferred tools - and both show the corner of a piece of PC hardware. Telephones are a constant companion. Coffee is more of a work thing - at home I tend to consume my drinks in the kitchen.
Home is more about art than work is - thus the music keyboard - but for some reason, it also means fewer flat work surfaces. I can’t explain it.
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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:48:00 GMT
This actually illustrates a part of Zoo & Cathedral.
It didn’t look like there used to be a bridge at this corner. Maybe I’m in the wrong place. But it’s typical overgrown Northwest DC.
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Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:36:00 GMT
These are pictures of a Montgomery College theatre arts building under construction along Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring. I don’t walk past it all that often - don’t really have a good reason - but, I have noticed the progress on the building and wondered what it was supposed to be.
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Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:28:00 GMT
And The Things You Can See Through Them
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Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:14:00 GMT
The toast is my handiwork. The photo is not. My coworkers were very excited by the composition I created with two flavors of fruit preserves. I just happened to run out of one flavor and move on to the next.
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Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:14:00 GMT
It has now been a year since I went to Texas, and it seemed like a good time to revisit my first impressions. Or at least, some of the pictures I took…
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Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:45:00 GMT
This is St. Matthew’s Cathedral on Rhode Island Avenue. Every time I walk past this spot on Connecticut Avenue, I see the dome peek over the rooftops. There’s something very wonderful about that dome - it doesn’t quite belong here, with the traffic lights and the scaffolding. From some angles, it improbably looks like it belongs to one of the other, more prosaic buildings.
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Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:35:00 GMT
I was amused to see this discarded radiator on the curb next to a trash can. I stopped to pull out my camera and look for some good angles. Don’t you just love the play of two styles in the verticals of both objects?
As I snapped a few photos, a group of people passed by… I don’t know if I was upset that they were getting in my way, but I deliberately snapped a photo of people passing in front of me, as if to say “You can see what I’m doing here! Cross at your own risk!” - It would be difficult to identify the people in this image anyhow, so I’m going to skip the release forms this time. But there you have it: The only photo I took of people in an entire week, they’re moving in the frame, and it came out just fine. Check out the shirt. That’s hot.
As an aside - I walked past this scene later, and the radiator was ‘still there’, but it was painted pink. I hadn’t even loaded the photo off my camera yet, so I started to doubt my memory of the radiator I saw being white instead. Now this raises a question in my mind: Did the same radiator get painted pink by some art pranksters, or are we (some renovator) disposing of all our radiators one at a time? Scrap metal can fetch a good price these days - I even read that Eastern Kentucky doesn’t have a problem with abandoned appliances anymore.
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Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:45:00 GMT
