Tag: art
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The joy of photographing
I’ve started sorting through this year’s photographs to find my ten favorite. I do this every year for a post just before the new year. See my past annual posts here. I made more images this year than in any year before. But a lower percentage of them were good. In 2020 I have used…
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single frame: Contemplating boy
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single frame: Squinting statue
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single frame: Angel guiding the way
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Industry, agriculture, literature, justice
Photos of four statues at the Birch Bayh Federal Building and Courthouse in Indianapolis.
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Each negative holds a thousand photographs
After seeing a print of W. Eugene Smith’s Madness at the Art Institute of Chicago, I looked up the image online and found a few different interpretations off the same negative.
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Do any of your photographs hang in your home?
Do any of your photographs hang in your home? How did you choose them? How did you frame and display them? Six of my photos hang in my home; I share them.
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No photographic experiment is a failure
While this is certainly not a great photograph, it is important in my development as a photographer. Because it was an experiment. I had paused in my mowing, and the scene looked interesting. So I got my iPhone out of my pocket and opened the camera app. I’ve left it set on square format lately,…
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Serious statue Canon A2e, 50mm f/1.8 Canon EF Fujicolor 200 2016 This statue is in a courtyard at the Episcopal church over on Meridian St.
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Waiting on Shore
In the bay at Rosses Point, Ireland, is this statue of a woman stretching her arms out toward the sea. Called Waiting on Shore, it was installed in 2002 to honor the women who used to wait for their men to return from their work at sea. Sometimes, those men didn’t make it home.
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Favorite Photos Week: The Bean in the fog
What a beautiful spring weekend my son and I had been spending in Chicago — sunny but not too warm. We did all the touristy stuff, from visiting the museums to looking at the city from the top of the John Hancock building to eating deep-dish pizza and drinking Old Style beer. (My son skipped the beer,…