Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

Visual Travels, Stories to Write, Tales to Tell.

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_DSC0037 Model A Pickup AberdenMuseum S50Sunday March first a taste of spring at an excellent museum. Thank you to Dan the Director of the Museum for giving us a private tour. A great part of a day trip.

 

_DSC0095 Morgan Operator Aberdeen Museum S30At the switchboard Aberdeen Museum of History

_DSC0145-Morgan 3-1-15 CrowleySign S30Low clouds and a breeze great light for an image before a tasty lunch at Breakwater Seafoods and Chowder in Aberdeen.

A day of creativity, good food, history in a very visual town. On the way back to Olympia plans were made for the next trip. I always like day trips, any trips. Especially to off the beaten track places, real people, history. Visual Stories created and told 

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Struggling to Make it Through Feb. Doldrums Spring Please!

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So when will spring come? It has been a very unusual winter but I will make it till spring when the nighttime lows get back up above 42 degrees.  In February you have to look harder to see the Light at the end of the tunnel. Here are a few images of winter here in Olympia Feb 12th -22th                               enjoy pjc

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Makes you shiver just to look at photos of Winter. LOL miss my friends in New England but the winter? Not so much                            enjoy pjc

Photographic Art  Winters Past Silver Gelatin IR

Three Images, Past, Present, Future, Transparency, Digital, Silver Gelatin

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Five Decades a second Book

Color transparency, slide film, reversal film. Names for the premier color film. Fuji, Agfa, Kodak. The king “Kodachrome” rich saturated color. Have a roll of Velvia in one of my cameras now.

A couple mornings ago it was the mid 70s and I awoke to American Beauty. Jerry singing Ripple, “let there be songs to fill the air” coffee is on Tom and I sing along, Kirsten rubbing her eyes and getting ready to run. Some home made toast and Jam. Badminton, beer and pot. Westford  Vt. moments that lasted forever etched into my soul. The cast in this 65 YO calendar has changed but Kirsten and I remain  “Listen to the River Sing Sweet Songs to Rock My Soul” and the others are warm memories to visit often.

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Digital the present, a new muse. The medium doesn’t identify or obstruct the creation. It is not about what your technology can’t do it is about making your technology do what you want. 

 

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The future a dream we race towards not sure if we arrive or just continue to race forward. Here the future is 7 months away. Birth, youth and the road to the future has a new traveler. Thirty year old Nikon Tri X warm tone Silver Gelatin Print my preferred road to all points.

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Days, daze meander by as creativity visits from present and past. Memories of days in Willi wandering around the hill with Hugh shooting publicity photos as Hugh works on a new political song “Bills Dick” 1996 or so. I shoot a few we walk Hugh tries different verses we laugh. Let’s go to the carnival in Willi a carnival without rain very strange.

Much of my listening is to friends words and music. Hugh, Rex and Neil, Mike Bloomer, Jon Ball and the Exchange                                               enjoy pjc

 

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