Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

Memorial Day, and June Twenty First Summer

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May 31st Bennet Senior Housing Bingo.

Watermelon Hot Dogs and Converse High Tops
Memorial Days then and now.


Bingo!!!!!!!!!!

Whether it is Memorial Day the unofficial start of summer
or the Solstice the season has changed.

With the season change there will be a change here, more B+W, Kodachrome, and other fine transparency films. Retrospective Portfolios, from Washington State and the train journey, “Between Here and There” a look visually and verbally at forty years of Photographic Art, Galilee  RI, The Willimantic Years, Performing Arts. Brief previews here to announce where prints may be seen. Salons small intimate gatherings public and private showings.  For it is the print that I relish, it is control and quality that is what drives me.


Photographic Art 2009 Solstice

Abbington Ct. 1972

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Johns Old Truck from a Past Life.

Once

Once I was or was I?

Today is tomorrow or yesterday.

It has always been about the adventure

Always the tomorrow

The best image I have created is the next one

Now it’s about yesterday

Old roads to rough to travel alone

Plan and re-plan

A journey that doesn’t start

To a world that doesn’t exist

In a forgotten memory

© Peter J. Crowley October 2004

Photographic Art

Memorial Day, Then and Now

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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

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