Tag Archives: B&W

Mountaintop Cross

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Taken from an Amtrack train somewhere near El Paso.

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The Morning After

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Those were wild and crazy times.

Happy new year!

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Contemplating Infinity

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There is an infinite amount of nothing (there is far more nothing than there is something).

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The Death of Love

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Love has died, and here’s where it was buried.

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Kim

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Back in the late 70’s, this was accepted for publication in Popular Photography.  I don’t know if it ever actually appeared, though.

It was my first experience with having to get a model (in this case, her parents) to sign a model release.

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Thorns

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Nature and man both make painful jabby things.

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Stockton Gothic

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Old friends (and neighbors) Kim and Larry.

I was trying to take a serious photo with them looking stoic in front of the American flag, but then a gust of wind came up and the shot went wrong – or actually, I think, right.

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Transparent Nude Self-Portrait

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I think I was about 18 years old here.

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Bubbles

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My daughter Danielle blew the bubbles off our balcony and I snapped shots.

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A Girl and her Teddy

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Black and white portrait from the mid 1970’s.

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Up To No Good

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The old crew at Vortex Films, Ltd. (makers of the smash-hit film Red Sidewalk).

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No Evil

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See, hear, and speak no evil.

[My old friends Brad, Leon, and David.]

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Captain Lead and the Letdowns

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My old friends Jason, Pat, Dan, Eric, and David, in the cover for a punk rock album that was never released.

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Gak! Feck! Nerk!

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The Siler brothers, out to show that they could be as geeky and weird as I am. 

[Maybe I should point out this was back in the mid-1970’s and we were in high school.]

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Brutal Honesty

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Taken a few winters ago in a tiny, tiny little Iowa town.

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High Contrast Bare Tree

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I always loved the way this one turned out.

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Checkerboard Girl

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This is my daughter, Jessica, one cold cold day at a park in McKinney, Texas.

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Minimalist Kitten

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More iPhone kitten art photography, ripe for a caption.

So, what is this cat saying?

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The Age of Overwhelming Choice

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Taken with and edited within my iPhone.

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Self-Portrait, Parking Lot, Davenport

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Early iPhone camera experimentation.

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Evil Plastic Clown

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Freaky McDonalds kids meal toy.

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Bicycle Race

High Dynamic Resolution (HDR) composite of a bicycle race in Maysville, Iowa.

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Chipmunk on Back Porch

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A chipmunk is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

Then again, I like rats, too.

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Limber-necked Kitten

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This kitten can nearly turn its head all the way around.  Fortunately it doesn’t project split-pea soup while doing so.

The image didn’t begin as a B&W, I changed it to simplify and make it more eye-popping.  The original looks like this:

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Moon Over Bridge

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This is actually from back in my darkroom days – when you did “photoshopping” on an enlarger.  This is two exposures on one piece of paper, the bottom first and the top second.  Notice solarization to each side, where the bridge railing meets the sky.

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