Pictures

It has become quiet here.

Taken through a glass jug

Working with out of focus views where nothing is sharp.

This is an old composite I did and a few friends have already seen it. I enjoyed the creative process in this image with the nude and the tree bark.

Don't look too hard to figure out a grand theme besides night yet. I'm still trying to figure out where to go myself.

I would like to thank Robert for the invitation to join the group. The weekend has been spent going over the old images and critiques and I already feel like I know a few of you after having read so many of your writings in the past (Colin and Paul especially). I was going to spend the week critiquing before I uploaded one of my own images, but realized you may wonder who this new guy was commenting on the images so here we go....

My name is Jeremy and I spend way too much time on online photographic forums and the Vintage section of eBay. Though I am a reformed gearhead I still have too many cameras, which I now put to use by giving weekend workshops in large format and alternative processes. My work has recently been focused on (excuse the pun) suburban/rural sprawl in North Texas and taking walks with my new puppy, Maia. She is given her head and follows her nose like the flaneur was said to follow his eye; I make photographs where she leads me.

The above image is from neither of those projects, though, and was taken during a recent weekend excursion to Santa Fe for breakfast burritos at Tia Sophia's. This trip was also a reawakening for me in the use of the 4x5 as I had packed it up for a bit due to time restraints, but since it has been unpacked it hasn't been shuttered up again so expect more sheet film images in the future.

It is rapidly getting darker here up north these days. For those of us having a normal daytime job, there is almost no chance at all to catch daylight outside normal office hours. Only weekends left, or do the best of the nights. I was planning a project on outdoor lighting for he SoFoBoMo, but I forgot (silly me), that there are practically no more dark evenings in May. Therefor I put it on hold until now. I don't know if I can manage to pull of a project on this, but I will at least try and see what happens.