Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

The first 15 days of March 2021

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Around the neighborhood a peak at spring.

March 3rd pots are waiting a bit of sprouts appear. Soon the pots will be filled with this springs flowers.

Blue skies, I did enrich the blue a bit. Like the big Oak up the street I shoot this Birch often.

Bits of color appear behind these soon to flower plants reaching for the sun. 

A ray of light caught shooting a tree.

Ornamental Grass dances in a warm breeze. 

There is a genre of photography called street photography. Here is my street photograph.

The flag bearer of spring is the crocus. I love these purple wonders.

Peace

June Thirteenth 2017

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There is always the Flowers

There is always the flowers

A meaningful image

A face, a form, a metaphor,

A muse

Many old images populate my circle

No images in _ No images out

There is always the flowers

Soul an image that speaks

A story told and retold

The Rectangle is empty

There is always the flowers

I still seek the highlight and shadows

Contrast communication

Life is middle gray

Meds, meals, meals meds bed

The dream  awakened by reality

There is always the flowers

The rectangle in dark

© Peter J. Crowley June 13th 2017

peace pjc

A Life in Photographic Art

A Model Review of Session Twenty Seven Years Later

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When I was working with Subjects [Model a different kind picked by me not the internet] after a session a week or so we would review the contact sheets both selecting what we felt worked. I also would look again a year or so later which would  allow me to see images that I hadn’t chosen after the session. Memory fresh just after the session our conversations, laughs and the smell of home made spaghetti sauce receding, like music the smell was a mood setter. A new view of form shape and emotion appeared. Now 27 years and the view is very different.

Stronger eye contact.

The session was a test for a period late 40’s Soft, romantic a women alone observed. We shot a couple rolls of color as the final images were to be hand colored. I printed two B+Ws neither of them are now represented. A different view, times changed and I see more today in the stronger self aware images.

Alone in her world this is more the feel I was looking for inspired by Louis Icart. She is still comfortable in herself just a bit more romanticized. 

This image is the next step from a session to be hand colored. A warm toned print for the period. Then Kathleen Lepak adds the color with Marshall Oils and patience, the result was magic.

enjoy pjc

Photographic Art Magic from Kathleen