Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

Random images over the last couple weeks. Around the block. Carlyon North

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As the monsoon season begins my strolls will sadly decrease. Creating will continue. I love peoples faces so contact me, or call 503 882 8335 you must leave a message for the batteries for the hand sets are dead. Portraits, No session fee,  Fine Art Prints or my books make great gifts any time of year. On to the images.

At Traditions for lunch mid October. I love this place Coconut Curry Soup yummy  and great toys and characters.

October 4th coffee a stroll neighborhood people pose for me around the Carlyon North block.

Percival Landing from a distance I saw this mans profile. I approached him asking if I could make an Image?  Yes he chuckled, all the time he was laughing while I composed the background he and his two friends continued to make jokes. “Pose in profile but a slight turn to me” 2 shots and back to laughing.

Just a moment before the leaf blows away. 

Just out my door a flower I planted on my prairie for bees there is another to come Oct 30 2021 

Always a smile my mail carrier ” a photo of me?” more laughter.

A beautiful Persimmon up the street October 29th.

My harvest still life. Oct. 15th 2021

Early morning walk, November 2nd. Early for me dark, cold, wet.  But there were a couple of high lights.

 

November first night light and me create art. 

Peace my friends. 

 

 

 

Late Fall around the block

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November and December the walks shorter and less frequent raindrops and lack of light. The same blocks seeking and finding something new.

Each day, each stroll I study this new to me digital world. I have had a Nikon Diggie since 2009 but never really embraced it till March when Jeff  a friend in Maine bought me a D-200 a more professional machine then my first. I have now moved to a D-7000 merely ten years behind the latest. Ha Ha. Here I come 21st century. I still don’t use auto exp. Auto Focus my eyes are not so good I have learned to tell it where to focus. I guess I use AF manually. lol

Impressionistic look November 15th, 2020

Overcast color saturates and separates for more abstraction on November 4th, 2020

November 8th,2020December  10th, 2020

   December 5th, 2020

December 5th, 2020

November 11th, 2020 another fence I have been shooting for the last year. I have four seasons but I lack morning light. This time of year around 8:45 am when the variables align I will go back. The variables being 50 degrees, Sun, low pain level. It could be a while.

December 5th, 2020 a good productive day it seems. An one half hour stroll. 

Questions, comments appreciated just a tad bored these day. Look around the galleries here plenty of images from 1971- 2020.

peace

Sunday July 26, 2020 Morning Light

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Yesterday I was out for a stroll at 8 am people time. But 7 am sun time. There is a magic in this light crisp cool even in the heat of summer. I am up most days to see the light but the science project that is my body coupled with morning haze restricts my strolls.  

Delicate light on a neighbors Poppy. Joe came out of his house coffee in hand to tell me I can walk into the yard to get the best angle of the light. The flower bed is his wife’s project he told me not wanting to take credit for her work that he loves. I love when folks greet me. I am more at home here now since the days of being the “creepy old guy with a camera.” LOL nearly six years now in Olympia. 

There are mornings I stroll where the light, birds singing a cool breeze are enough. A few shots but just the light and the walk feed my soul.This was not one of those days. The grass at another friends house drenched in stark back light provided wonder to shoot. 

Not over saturated in PS no in fact saturation and contrast was dialed down for these four images. Just my seeing, the perfect light provided for these exposures.

A gentle breeze the colors danced seeking a solo of focus with each shutter release. 

But this short depth of field highlights the importance of negative space. Here as important as the focused subject.

In the center a white spec? A dust spot? No part of a spider web so strong holding between the shafts of color. A deep breath another image seen I stroll along.

peace pjc