Summer Pool Photo

Found this photo on my hard-drive. Shot last summer from my balcony of the pool 17 floors below. The life guard had arrived early for his shift that day and after swimming his laps was soaking up the sun and warmth. I liked the image for a variety of reasons. Be sure to click on it and look at the large version. It's a big dose of summer.

New Color Photographs

The next show at Las Manos Gallery focuses on color photography. I've pulled together a few new panoramas and will be participating. The show opens on February 11, 2011 and there will be a reception that evening from 7 to 10pm. The top photo is an example of a photo that I shoot 'flat', that is I shoot the images in such a way that all reference to perspective is removed. The bottom photo was made on State Street at Washington Street in Chicago. It is part of a series shot from the same spot during different times of the year. it is an example of allowing photographic perspective be evident, hence the sense of a horizon line and multiple vanishing points.

Montrose Beach

It's the dead of winter and I'm fighting a cold and have cabin fever. Memories of the summer and the slowly lengthening days are what sustain me. Here is a photo from Montrose Beach shot in the late afternoon on a warm July day. Enjoy and know that warmer days will be here soon.

Labels

Now that the postings are mounting, I wanted to mention how helpful the labels can be to look at a specific subject. For example if you are looking for India Ink drawings, be sure to click on the label 'india Ink' and all of the posts with that link attached to it should pop up. Some helpful labels might be: Chicago, panorama, drawing... They appear at the bottom of each post. I will include them all here. Give it a try, don't be afraid.

Mirror Lake

Here are a few photos from a series I made in 2007-2008 called 'Mirror Lake'. All the original images were made in Chicago, along the lake front. I won't say anything about my manipulation of the photos, it's obvious and the title of the series, says it all. They have a quality about them that evokes, for myself, a feeling of being near the waters edge of Lake Michigan. There are still a few of the original images floating around Las Manos Gallery; and the Gage Restaurant on Michigan Avenue has a couple very large prints in their dining rooms from this series.

Winter Panorama

Tulips

As an antidote to all this cold weather, a tulip drawing from last summer.