Winter Solstice 2020
Cold Spring Pond, Southampton, New York, photographed on the Winter Solstice afternoon 2020
Borderland: New Work From Estonia
Just before completing a month's residency at CopperLeg Artist Residency in Vaskjala, Estonia, I had an opening for the photographs that I made and printed there. During my month in Estonia I made trips to eastern and southeastern Estonia, close to the Russian border. I was photographing the land and the people's use of it as well as the scars on the land from the abandoned Soviet era buildings.
At CopperLeg, I made a portfolio of silver gelatin prints in their darkroom. Additionally, I exhibited digital prints from both a digital camera and from an iPhone. Below are some of the images.
New Tab. Açores Facades
I spent 10 days in São Miguel Island in November of 2016. During part of my stay, I was in a small village, Porto Formoso, for several days. All the houses are brightly painted in an incredible pallet of colors. Many of the houses use indigenous volcanic rock material for architectural decoration.
Take a look by clicking on the tab above.
Silver Coast
The Silver Coast. Foz do Arelho, Portugal
The afternoon light and the dramatic cliffs of the Portuguese coast offer unparalleled visual opportunities. The wind comes up late in the afternoon, blowing sea mist into the cliffs. The light changes very quickly as does the color of the ocean. This is the third time I've spent time in Foz. Last week, I was there for a week, and this was the view from the house I rented.
Site Upgrade
2 Cabins. Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
I have made a lot of photographs since I last posted to MBPP. I've been involved in two residencies, one in Portugal and another in Ólafsfjördur, Iceland. I've been in about ten different countries, and I've returned to exposing black and white film. Additionally, I've been in almost two dozen shows in five countries. So, with so much going on, I only feel slightly guilty in not keeping MBPP more current and up to date. With that in mind, I've been working on an upgrade to the site starting with the Iceland tab. More to come in the near future.
Just Like They Said It Would...
Two Women in a Doorway. Rajasthan, India. 1992
I'm faced with the daunting task of scanning color negatives, and then digitally making prints from the scans of a large body of work dating back to 1992. The problem? Most of the C-prints have faded or have significant color shifts. Back then, no one said that C-prints were archival, everybody said they wouldn't last 10 years. Well, that's not necessarily true. I have a lot of color C- prints from that era that seem alright. The blatant culprits are prints that I made at a rental darkroom in NYC. Once, I opened my own color lab in 1994, the prints seem to display less signs of color shift. I owe that to the fact I was mixing my own chemistry. Glad I don't do that anymore: 25 gallons of developer and 25 gallons of bleach/fix at a time.
Drying Fish
Drying fish on the beach In Nazare, Portugal. Shot with an iPhone and a Moment 18mm lens.
Moonrise over Mt. Rundle
I believe I've bored everyone to tears who follows me on Facebook with landscape/skiing images from Alberta, Canada. So here's one last one: the back side of Mt. Rundle in Banff, Canada with a full moon in the eastern sky, right at sunset.
Hose Head
A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since I lasted posted to my blog. Sometimes, life just has a way of taking over. But have no fear, I've been tirelessly capturing images. Most of my images have been the product of iphones. I've always been a promoter of alternative cameras, starting with plastic Diana cameras in the '70's. In a way, iphones are kind of like old school toy cameras; certainly a lot of the photo apps ape toy camera photography with countless filters, some even named Diana. Go figure. So, as I distill down a year's body of iphoneography, I'll you give one of the early ones; interestingly I was at this location last week, and the nozzle is no longer there, but the hose is, lying almost in the same place.