Peter J. Crowley

Decades

06.22.2016 by Peter J. Crowley // 6 Comments

Each decade had it’s highs and lows never boring. My vision shaped by the sea in the 70’s a couple miles each day walking, seeing, feeling, thinking The Journey begins.

A Life in Photographic Art

1970’s Cosey Beach

1980

Akin Babatunde Rites and Reason Theater Brown Univ.

Trauma and Drama, Theater, Dance, Art and Artists many tales.

Sculpter David Hayes — **Sculptor David Hayes**

1990’s

**Silver Gelatin A Sad Pensive Muse. Seeking the Highlight finding the shadow. A muse for three years hundreds of images. The Muse is me.**

2000’s Rasminko’s in Willi

A large studio in Norwich the mill town residency tour continues. The past and present fuel Layered Life. Dance production on stage sorted re arranged to color abstracts in the studio. Teaching Whidbey Island. Amtrak life on both sides of the tracks.

2010’s

Life continues to be layered in Olympia the next chapter pulls out of the station.

enjoy pjc

Photographic Art More from 70’s

Triangles, Doors with Shadows

02.28.2016 by Peter J. Crowley // Leave a Comment

Feb. 25th walk to Tumwater Falls an incomplete walk. Kirsten and Tancern came and picked me up, good for I was out of gas and low Blood Sugar. New insulin a 2 + mile walk, bad timing need to carry food? I have to fix this walking is creativity for me, mobility. Motion and emotion my themes and the answer to the contest that was to difficult to enter. I have come to a grips with no car not easy my ct circle had dwindled to a 50 mile radius providing many different departures for my strolls.

So motion was today’s ramble short movements no more than 10ft inside strolls as it is what I now think of as a poor winter day 49 lt rain breeze oh how quickly N. E. Winters fade. But the inner strolls through images life a long pleasant walk today. Detours abound what is that road over there in 1981 where does it go? Today I looked for an older image to compliment this or just looking for visual and verbal images to spark conversation. It is three hours later and apt wanderings and time travels are paused an old blog updated link Photographic Art below. Hope all these rambling bring you a smile.

Spring 1982 a stroll through The Fashionable East Side I found these two generations enjoying the warm afternoon. In Prov., Coventry, Willimantic, and Norwich I walked everywhere not having a car for 20 years till 2005 a five six mile day was nothing 2-3 the normal. In Willi I lived again on the top of the Fashionable Hill section. Although when I told my friends I was moving to Bellevue many said about time or at last. The number of times I had to climb the hill daily became directly proportionate to the number of cold beers and arrival time at Willimantic Brewing Co. On days where my travels brought me up and down the hill a few times before noon, well the lunch started around two and if it was a day with a “Y” in it no work after lunch. enjoy pjc

Photographic Art Three Cities old post new thoughts images added. This is a very old post 10 years ago ya and it is the same free form rambling all these journeys without a destination………………………

Digital IR 2, Thoughts on My Creative Process

02.24.2016 by Peter J. Crowley // Leave a Comment

A stroll with film camera shooting Rollie RPX 400 an orthochromatic B+W film. Using this film with a Red 25 deep Red filter produces a negative similar to IR. Well this digital age has me a bit less patient so standing at the bus stop I thought. In theory digital doesn’t react to color filters yet last spring I exposed some orange Poppies with a red filter with a good result.

Setting the camera on B+W I went into the menu and applied a Red/Purple filter the darkest available. My idea being if the filter was applied internally I might have a better starting point to create this effect. So convert even when shot on BW, to B+W IR followed by contrast and sharpening. The second image is re opened in PS Convert again save in Newspaper mode contrast and sharp.

IR close but not quite, perhaps over sharp yet it feels like I saw it staring almost into sun just out of frame in left. Opinions on effect? Thoughts appreciated.

The trick is not found by letting the camera tell you what it can’t do, it is found by making the camera do what you want.

enjoy pjc

Photographic Art Meanwhile back in the 70’s scanning new/old negs