Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

A Recent Walk Sept 1st

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September first around the block thoughts on negative space and composition.

1954 Chevy Pick-Up Sept 1st 2018

Negative space how what isn’t your subject defines whether it is a snapshot or a photograph. On this image my concept and space reality made me crop this shot. A car parked behind and bushes that constrained my space to back up. I like the angle of the truck but this position removed the car it also added to much  front yard across the street. I like the crop alright but oh to be able to step back 18 inches.

Plums Ripen and fall to the sidewalk.

Triangles a prime aspect of composition push the viewers eyes to your subject. The obvious one is the branches caressing the plums. More subtle triangles the leaf in the upper left like a pin ball bumper directs your eye back to the plums as does the leaf in the lower right. If you look hard there are many little ones but all lead to subject. 

peace pjc

More old auto portraits.

Bugs and Buses in my life and lens

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A Birthday party for a Prof at ECSU relatives from Poland and this girls dads Bus

My 66 green Bug sits for a portrait.

John in Abington waits for me as Brad and Dennis prepare for today’s frivolity by the Volvo 122s.

My Black 66 BugI Park 2003 reflecting in Barbara’s Bug

peace pjc

Photographic Art Shrimp Garlic Pizza with an old Dodge work of Art

November 3rd the Life of an Artist and a Free Print.

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Contest is over. Spend a moment with the images and thoughts.

Since my senior year at Coventry High I have lived life as an artist, seeing, pondering, communicating with visual words and verbal images.

SCAN0100 Ss15 sat+25 Cnst60 Drk25 Westford Vt 70sEarly travels to N.Vt a friends old house. An ad in Burlington Free Press a model to create emotions. Ad read call after 10 am, at 8:30 we took the phone off the hook 75 calls and I had booked Christine [funny I can’t remember names but 42 Years later hers pops right into my head] at 5-10 with expressive eyes the session produced wonder. Image made on Kodachrome.

bw-fine-CoseyBeachAmuseisborn-definedBut before Christine the muse was born on Cosey Beach E. Haven on my daily beach walk I found this young women we talked I created. We became friends and worked together a few more times. 1971 or ’72 I realized I could mirror my soul through a muse. 

DSC_0003 S15 B-3 Drk40 Cnst+60 8-15-15The road wasn’t always smooth often feeling as old as my Beetle Bug I plugged along too often needing a mechanic [Doctor] to keep me running. The Muse sometimes a women, sometimes a flower but The Muse is me.

TheKinksRayDaviesPreludetodemonAlcohol-1-31-77-36There were some Kinks along the way Ray here doing an intro to Demon  Alcohol drinking a Heineken, “Sad memories I can’t recall.” Dance, theater performing arts the muse moved. Time, space reflections real, surreal, abstraction and identity joined the muse in the dance of youth and creation.           enjoy pjc

Photographic Art  In the late 90’s I chanced to meet The Muse at lunch mid afternoon by 10am the next morning we were in my studio for two years we worked many times. It was always magic.

 

The Contest for a free print is over.