Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

Friday Aug. 7th a Walk and a Vision

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On my daily stroll to Percival Landing, Downtown and Traditions I realized my eyes are working much better these days. Seems that my diabetes now controlled has made my eyes work back to a couple years ago when I needed a Plus one diopter not a plus two. Now I can use the D-3100 with my manual Brass and Glass lens. No longer stuck with the AF shit [kit] lens. A bit of the happy dance here. Still testing but these with said shit lens used manually are sharp. In the menu for the D-3100 is a sharpening setting so you can make the lens pretend to be optically sharp instead of  having the elements of composite [plastic] lens actually be sharp. Since buying this camera with a built in diopter that is not strong enough for someone who needs a plus 2 I have been stuck using  just the kit lens. End of rant!

DSC_0530 Ss30 B-3 MidHi Cnst+30 Lgt+50 8-7-15All images on site are for sale except Portraits. The new digital B+W are available as work prints at a reduced price. [8×10-8×12 $75] Work prints are excellent except not as archival. By selling these at a reduced price I will see more of my work on paper and adjust the files to the standard of excellence my work is known for and help me to eat.

DSC_0546 S45 B-3 Drk50 Cnst+30 8-7-15Peace and Jazz every Friday at Percival landing 4:30- 6

DSC_0555 S30 B-3 Cnst-30 Drk 50 8-7-15Brought to you by Olympia fellowship for Reconciliation.

peace pjc

Photographic Art  One of three new galleries please comment on individual images so I know someone is looking. A comment on my page helps me a comment on FB helps a multi Billion $ corp. You have to leave an email address but I send nothing to addresses. If you don’t have a sign up email address for when you want to see articles but don’t want the follow up emails [not from me] maybe you should set one up. seems to me that is what Hot Mail, Yahoo, G-Mail are for LOL. Questions Contact me

A Lost Boy at the Portland Or. Union Train Station

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Portland Or Train Station 93-98-21_edited-1

Telling stories, creating emotions. The little boy looks across the waiting room to a grandmotherly women in line. She doesn’t know him the emotion I create here is of fear and being lost from the point of view of the boy. That is the story the emotion we have all felt at one time or another. enjoy pjc

The real story is the boy isn’t lost at all by stepping to the right I did not include his parents who were five feet to the right as their son took in the view of this magnificent old station and by composing [not cropping] the image to tell my tale, to create an emotion for you to add you story to the image.

Photographic Art Amtrak Abstract

A part of Fragments of my life the Amtrak Travels perhaps I should list the fragments? Thank you who have been commenting here.

Whidbey Island Wa. Coupeville Harbor

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Summer of 2001 I taught Photo Philosophy on Whidbey Island. I joked that I would be teaching manual photography under the shadow of “Windows.” There were eight students all using film. Most I convinced to use manual one shot at a time. To see and think and see again as the camera sees. Learning to see and understand simplicity. I now own a digital camera [for quick color never decaffeinate] but use it on manual all the time yet it still makes adjustments I don’t want. I strive to make all the decisions, meter, compose in view finder almost never crop [this image is slightly cropped due to it being printed on post card paper] there is always an exception. One image at a time belongs to you. One hundred images blasted off in in a minute on auto everything belong to the camera. The decisive moment! My moment. My thoughts repeated, lived and not changing soon. LOL  My web designers spent a few hours last Wednesday figuring out some update problems on this word press site. As I post this morning I notice there are two more updates to add. Well I’ve rambled my thoughts on Photographic Art long enough. Look at the image, like it or not tell your friends.     enjoy pjc not updated in 25 years!

Photographic Art Color Transparency

The Manila Envelope Spring Edition is out some of my B+W is there. Art Poetry, Essay’s, Fiction and more check it out.

Those of you in SE Ct or South County RI drop off for the Funky Egg Show is this weekend.