A BIRTHDAY MORNING SIX YEARS AGO

MAD RIVER, JANUARY 2006

This photo is exactly as it came from the camera. I still do not have my photography computer, and I am resorting to older, and almost forgotten images to share here.

LOOKING BACK TO 1972

ME IN A CABOOSE AT INDIO, CA ABOUT 1972

I do not have much to say today. I am still without my main computer, and am not doing any processing. I do have quite a number of photographs that I need to work on, and I hope to start by Saturday.

LOOKING AT OLDER IMAGES

MAD RIVER HOUSE c.1988

I am still without my primary photography computer. This makes me realize how much time I put into my photography, because I am not putting any time into it now. I wonder what I would do if I lost all of my work of the past five or six years, and I hope that I would be able to cope with the loss, and just move ahead.

BEAR RIVER

THE BEAR RIVER, 2008

My computer is still in the shop. I am using my old machine, and I have been digging through old files. This image was taken from the bridge that is on private property, and is a view that most folks cannot see. I was and still am, drawn to the colors and hues of the budding alder and willow trees. I wish I had more of the mountain in the picture, but  I do not.

I AM OFF OF THE BLOG FOR A DAY OR TWO

My primary photography computer is getting some upgrades.

MAD RIVER PROJECT

COLORS OF THE MAD, RUTH DAM, 2012

I went to the Mad River at Ruth yesterday with Hal Work. We were gathering photographs for our upcoming show at the Mad River Brewing Company. In looking through my images for the day this one stands out for me. I just now did my preliminary work on the image, and now I will let it sit for awhile.

MORE EUREKA MORNINGS

REDWOOD CAPITAL BANK, EUREKA, 2012

I spent quite a bit of time working this image. I did a fair amount of cropping to the right edge and the bottom. I think I could almost title this Two Sentries in keeping with my image of Umqua Bank and its six sentries. Perhaps I have a sub theme for my Eureka project.

Arts Alive tomorrow, Saturday. Please come to see my work at the RAA Gallery at 603 F Street, Eureka - across from the Morris Graves.

AN EXAMPLE FROM MY LESSONS

THE UMPQUA BANK BUILDING, EUREKA, 2012, or SILENT SENTINELS

I took this earlier this year.  I had not really put the finishing touches on it then. Yesterday, I decided to look at it again by working it in Photoshop as an HDR image. As per my usual work flow, I did the remaining aspects in Lightroom-4.

I actually printed the earlier version of this some months back, and I even exhibited it in a judged show. It did not win any awards, but I understand that the judge liked  the image, but thought that the trees were too close to the top of the composition. I corrected that in this rendition, and I completely reworked the luminance values in almost every aspect.

DOING, A WHAT COMES NATURALLY

SUNSET COLORS AT THE ARCATA MARSH, 2012

I cannot imagine any thing that I would rather do than to create these images. I feel that I am in the flow. Each time I create a new image I feel more so. I think that acts of creating are one of the higher forms of prayer/meditation. I think that by doing so in what ever format we use that we come closer to manifesting our true nature and purpose in life.

MONUMENT TO THE ANCESTOR TREES, ARCATA, JULY 2012

This is an image that I took last night in the evening. It is a composite of about ten images that were processed HDR and then stitched. This is as close as I ever got to fulfilling my vision of these "ghost snags". I first photographed them in the mid 1980's with my four-by-five, but I was never able to get all of the data that was on the negatives to the final prints. I think I am feeling a compulsion to process this as a black and white to see how it compares with my film negatives.

DOORS, WALLS, AND WINDOWS TO THE SOUL?

RED AND YELLOW, BLACK AND WHITE, EUREKA JULY 2012

I am attempting to conger up something profound to say, and to perhaps even answer some of life's more elusive and meaningful questions. Maybe, just maybe, I did so in the above image. I think I must print it in order to better digest any message that is hidden in this simple composition.

THE EUREKA PROJECT

THE EUREKA THEATER, 2012

I took this photograph in April. I am playing with the composition. I was going to remove that lamp from the edge, but then I got to wondering if leaving it could add to the overall quality of the composition. As I write this I think that it could if there were more if it.  What to do?