Low, Quebec, Blind

                                                                   Blind, Low, Quebec

This is the day before Christmas immediately after a snowstorm Off the the left is a huge waterfall that supply energy to the power plant....The image is a three frame stitch (Canon 5DII) using Photoshop CS5 with local adjustments in Color EFX Pro 4 and Silver EFX Pro2. Looks ike the start of this year is all about black and white...Thanks for the motivation Tom....

Ireland, Sheep with Color

Sheep, Northern Ireland

The one thing you notice when driving around Ireland is the abundance of sheep...all different colors of sheep - marked with color as per the farmer who owns them. They are blue, red, white, orange and every color imaginable. They are off the road, on the road, precariously balanced on the vertical hillsides just wandering about eating.

The sheep in this image just stopped us in our tracks...Could there really be sheep this color - guess this farmer went a bit overboard with his color....

On the other hand the juxtaposition of color in this image is quite appealing for me. It also appears there is a face in the rocks just behind the sheep....you can make out one eye if you look closely - appears to be an Eagle resting his beak on the water while watching the sheep...What a magical place Ireland is....

Fall Color

Highway 24, Ohio

Caught this image yesterday returning from Toledo. It is that time of year once again......

Missing Images

Indianapolis BBQ

A few weeks back I was in Indiana and got terribly lost trying to find the Jazzfest location. All the corners had 'no left turn' signs and, of course , that was precisely what I was trying to do.  So I made a right turn and this oasis of BBQ appeared in my windshield. It looked so PERFECT (the firewood outside did help) I simply had to stop. And I was not dis-appointed....Going back to Indiana this week and hopefully will be able to find this again......you can almost smell how good this was.

On a separate note, there is an issue with my blog where all of the images have dis-appeared. I inadvertently deleted a Picaso Photo Album where these images were stored - I was not aware that images for this blog were stored there....Something for all blogger on this platform to understand. I am working to replace as many as possible as quickly as I can....THANKS

Death Valley - Mesquite Dunes

Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley

'This sand seemed to us the connecting link between land and water. It was a kind of water on which you could walk, and you could see the ripple-marks on its surface, produced by the winds, precisely like those at the bottom of a brook or lake. We had read that Mussulmans are permitted by the Koran to perform their ablutions in sand when they cannot get water, a necessary indulgence in Arabia, and we now understand the propriety of this provision'...Henry David Thoreau

Publish Post

Iceland - Jokulsarion Galcier 2

Jokulsarion Glacier 2

'The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth'...Louis Agassiz

Poco

Poco, Academy of Music, New York City

I am not quite sure which version of Poco this image is from but my best guess is the 1973-1976 line-up which included:

Timothy B Schmit - Bass
Rusty Young - Pedal Steel, Dobro, Banjo
George Grantham - Drums, vocals
Paul Cotton - guitars, vocals

This photograph was taken at the Academy of Music in New York City.

Image made with a Nikon F Series Camera, Ektachrome Slide Film


I was lucky enough to be included in an article about Tour Managers in this months issue of Elmore Magazine. The link is below - note that the article starts on Page 12..It was written by a up and coming young music writer, Melissa Caruso...keep your eye out for her byline.....


http://www.onlinedigitalpubs.com/publication/?i=79123&page=1

Video Still

Video Still, 1994

This image is from a John Mellencamp video shoot in Belmont, Indiana (near Bloomington, Indiana). The song was 'Baby Please Don't Go' which was used in the 1994 movie 'Blue Chips' with Nick Nolte and Shaquille O'Neal.

Image made using a Pentax 67
Tri-x 400 speed film
Scanned into the digital world using an Imacon Scanner
Image management in Lightroom3 and Photoshop CS5

Bear Mountain

Bear Mountain State Park

Not much more today - getting ready for Hurricane Irene due in my neighborhood late today or tomorrow...Let's see - fill the car with gas, batteries, food, water, radio...........post a blog...maybe even get a nice image of the storm...

Bob Dylan

Dylan - Van Ronk

Today's image was from some sort of protest in New York City, circa 1970'ish.....It may have had something to do with Phil Ochs but the gentlemen with Bob is Dave Van Ronk. Oddly enough I once took guitar lessons from Dave on Sheridan Square in lower Manahattan....

Jamaica

Jamaica Mystery

I have always been intrigued by this image...I remember making the photograph but not sure I really caught the entire image at the time.....Looking at this today and it is still a mystery how the pieces fit together.....

In all likelihood I used some sort of color negative film.....transferred to the digital world using an Imacon scanner...

Dream

Dreams

'...Sometimes I dream of a last becoming a child'

New York Street Festival

New York Street Festival Photographer

Today's image from a New York Street Fair, circa 1975. When I first walked in to this slice of New York life the photographer was facing the two women seemingly ready to expose a Polaroid...Just as I was ready to click the shutter he turned and gave me the look......happy he did - makes the Minor White quote below all the more relevant...

'No Matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen'.......Minor White

Transferred to the digital world using an Imacon Scanner.... and thanks to my friend Jolene for some photoshop image management tips....these old negatives can be a bear....

Ireland Landscape

Ireland

'One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it'......Galen Rowell

Coney Island

Coney Island

'I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island'.........Thornton Wilder

Everglades - Chokoloskee

10,000 Island, Everglades

It is just before sunrise and I am sitting in a parking lot outside the hardware store in Everglades City, Florida. I am meeting a boat captain to take me out to the 10,000 Islands which are mostly deserted beaches, water and mangrove trees, some of which are growing on oyster beds....These islands date back quite some time, some as far back as 3,500 years. Eerie place at best...

Today this body of water is very calm except for the sound of our motor and the wake produced by the boat - not a sound except for what my mind tells me is an alligator  - and visually just the twilight starting to peak out on the horizon -

So we motor out for about one half hour and Captain Ray stops the boat, looks at me and tells me this is the spot, get out of the boat. I mean we are in the middle of nowhere and he is telling me to get out of the boat - I hesitate - he says you will miss the sunrise if you don't get out now - I am thinking miss the sunrise', what about the alligators and anacondas I have heard so much about?

Long story short I get out of the boat and find myself standing on an oyster bed - the water is maybe 2 feet deep and I can see down to the bed - Captain Ray hands me my tripod and drifts his boat out in the water (out of my camera view) telling me he will come back in 30 minutes to pick me.....of course I am always looking over my shoulder to make sure he is still there - and of course he is floating about smoking a cigarette and eating breakfast....business as usual for Ray....

After a few minutes I become comfortable with this and fire away at the sunrise for maybe 20 minutes....when I turn around the image above was waiting.....the moon setting behind me....

What an amazing experience this was - of course I spent the rest of the day jumping out of the boat on many of the islands feeling a bit fearless after that sunrise experience....WOW.....

Iceland Landscape

Iceland Landscape, Circa 2010

'I believe in God, only I spell it Nature'.....Frank Lloyd Wright

Death Valley - Mesquite Dunes

Death Valley - Mesquite Dunes

'Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul'....John Muir

Iceland - The Road and the Sky

The Road and The Sky

'When we come to the place where the road and the sky collide
Throw me over the edge and let my spirit glide
They told me I was going to have to work for a living
But all I want to do is ride
I don't care where we're going from here
Honey, you decide'.......Jackson Browne

Have no idea why but when I saw this scene it reminded me of the Jackson Browne song quoted above....I always have bit and pieces of songs in my head that were important to me over the years. They are always popping up at the strangest times - this one of course being a bit more literal....

This is Route 1 in Iceland leaving the glacier lagoon as we headed back to the hotel.....

Icelandic Horse

Icelandic Horse

Over the past week I have seen a few blogs posting Icelandic horses so I thought why not post one from my recent Iceland adventure. 

According to online sources theses horses are still a large part of Iceland life, even with modern road improvements and new technology. They are also used as race, show and farm horses - some farmers still use them to round up their sheep in the highlands.There are about 80,000 horses in Iceland - interesting as the population of Iceland is 317,000 (60% in Reykjavik).




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