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Off The Southwest Chief for A Day in Flagstaff Az

09.16.2008 by Peter J. Crowley // 2 Comments


Rees my host in Flagstaff, a fine art photographer, a fine art friend.

August 13th the journey begins. It is said that each journey begins with the first step but a creative journey begins with the planning and accessing of the history/baggage that you carry into the idea. So Natalie {a Muse} brought me and too much baggage to Springfield Ma. Settling in on the most familiar part of this trip my window on the world secure I watched as we rolled into the Berkshires. Small farms New England country side Golden Rods and a turkey, boarded up small factories spoke of the economy for anything small.


The River and Rails

The river and rails
Meander through hill and dale
On the same trail
Nature and man
Share the same travel plan


A dancer glides by in car 13 I watch as my mind drifts to dancers, the body as a creative instrument. Motion and emotion a constant theme of my work. The body speaks a language so familiar yet lately rarely do I interpret this speech, history not baggage as warm thoughts pirouette through my minds eye. On to Albany seeking America in the faces, eyes and body language of those I encounter on either side of the tracks.
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Dance history my minds eye



Categories // Amtrak 2008 Travels, Black and White Fine Art Photography, Faces from Either Side of the Tracks

Memorial Day, Then and Now

05.30.2008 by Peter J. Crowley // 6 Comments


Last weekend I went to visit a friend who I hadn’t seen for quite a while, since the eighties except for a brief rain soaked chat at a concert. She was having a Memorial day cook out. While there a couple of the guys and I were reflecting on youth through footwear. It wasn’t a long debate more of a look we are still there sitting side by side they posed their Black Converses and I shot this image. On the way home and today I thought about Memorial Day. I spoke with my daughter during the week and she could never remember Memorial Day being May 30th. It was always the Lite Beer, Gasoline, Consume and waste 3 day weekend. I’ve gotten very old. But what the hell it’s good for the economy, and it vanillarizes the day. Forget history so we and our children can be led down the spin highway to repeat it over and over heck it’s good for the economy. “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it!” Ben Franklin. No answers, just questions. peace pjc

Visual Questions

Categories // Black and White Fine Art Photography, Converse Black Hightops, the eighties

Staten Island Ferry.Circa 1972, early looks at negative space and triangles.

01.05.2008 by Peter J. Crowley // 1 Comment

A Life in Photographic Art my second book.

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Although not consciously understanding seeing of negative space my mind already was seeing it. Even most of my earliest images were un cropped or I had a lot of trouble deciding a little off the top or a little off the bottom. Also I was never one to steal a persons image. This women looked at me and my camera, I pointed it at her from shoulder level she nodded an approval, depress the shutter a moment is created. The triangles all lead to the strong yet ambiguous eyes. Tri X 400 at 400 Nikon F 1971 105mm 2.5 lens f-8 1/125 somethings the mind remembers. So for a few or more posts as I file negs from 35 years of following the rectangle observing and commenting I’ll post a little history of my life in photographic art. I hope this will be my second book want a copy?

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Mushrooms 1971 a student of seeing then and now!

Categories // Black and White Fine Art Photography, Cica 1972, Full Frame, Staten Island Ferry

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