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waiting

Today was Genevieve's opening at the Radius Gallery, and the PA State Museum. She did a great job!

I took some shots of the kids as we were waiting while she displayed talked to people about her work.

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carts

I am drawn to graphic scenes for some reason. The dynamics of the shadow cutting across the sidewalk and wall. The texture contrasts between the smooth wall, carts and half letters.

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warm wood

The sun is finally begginning to warm the world here as spring aproaches.

The afternoon sun streaming in catching the lines, and patterns of this chest of drawers caught my eye.

On another exciting note. Genevieve has an opening this weekend at the Pennsylvania State Museum, Radius Art Gallery: Sunday, 7 March, 1:00pm - 3:00pm.

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pop

I have a set of "close-up" lens' and wanted an excuse to use them. A student today reminded me of a lesson I once did involving popcorn, so I thought that would be a worthy subject.

There is a good bit of distortion if I stack the lens (+1, +2, +4) but I am not aiming for "clarity", or scientific percision. I like the alsost graphic nature of the popped kernl, and even like some of the "artifacts" created by the low cost lens.

I am enjoying how each day I am being challenged to do something... having a goal to create, even one this nebulous, is good.

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porch

More light - long exposure experimentation. I am trying to avoid the typical, blurry people, car tail-lights, trails, type of long exposure. I want to seek out different colors/types of light to compare. Incandecent, flourescent, halogen, etc. they each have a different colors, and I am looking for areas where they converge.

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pipes - crumbling wall

Another long exposure shot resulting in some slight blurring and interesting light effects. The texture of the crumbling wall contrasting with the metal pipe caught my attention.

I had played with adding other light sources, but found it too manulaptive.

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standing in the hall

Another attempt at long exposure to see how it shifts the light color/tone. However, my model, and my hand were not as steady as I had planned. I couldn't use a tripod on the steps very easily, and decided to try and rest the camera on the floor and prop it up to keep it steady...

Movement - a happy accident.

Claire had some "out of focus" images on her site which I found quite nice. I have done a bit of pinhole, blur, and out of focus images in the past, so I am happy with these results.

Good colors, mixed in the background. All I did after the image was shot was adjust the white balance, which as quite off.