Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

The Editing Process, Time Travel……

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Youth still seeking a ladder to my tree fort. Early 70’s on the way back from a Stratford News assignment only in my twenties but looking back to tree climbing, secret places. Some many images, experiences so much life.

Tree Fort Web S30 ShdHi 1973 Roll 78 8

Mountain A concert that he was promotingMountain from Manchester Ct. days

A concert in someones yard with Mountain offering free dogs. He never slept and always smiled. Once on a 19 Foot Daysailor with a couple of friends, a foggy day off Bridgeport, mountain eating cashews “can I have one?” “They’re electric.”  Sure eat a couple and drift on a windless day into the now colorful fog.  When a Texaco Tanker appeared 100yds away the capt. said we should get out of here the ship didn’t see us and if it were closer we would capsize. Home to the Capt. house where we had fried chicken with his dad a Minister we didn’t eat much just picked at the food and watched. Then up to his bedroom to review a copy [1st edition museum quality prints] of Dante’s Inferno  with original etchings by Durer Whoa what a long strange trip. 

S15 Cnst +40 Drk 20 Cosey Beach Walk Kids 1972Cosey Beach 1972-3 on my walk many miles traveled since yet I still walk and seek the next image the next adventure. The next moments of childhood. The big sister leads the youger brothers linger.  A new book is in the works early edits some shown here. Tales that highlight my life, the image an imaginary biography.

enjoy pjc

Photographic Art More childhood

East Haven, Cosey Beach Avenue a Year Right on the Sound

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What a place to start out on a visual journey by the sea there is something magical about the water. I walked the 2 miles of beach most days.  1972-73   a couple of images Tri X 400 D-76 vision sharper than technique. The man,bench and bike is East Haven?

Bike and Bench New Haven Harbor Web 1973 Roll 53 30The man,bench and bike is East Haven?

Kids of Cosey Beach H-C Low Tide 1972 Roll 63 4

A couple of the Cosey Beach Kids. They lived in the neighborhood but not in the beach front homes. I lived in a beachfront that was year round. The kids would play, explore and talk with me low tide High Contrast the beach in winter.

peace pjc

Photographic Art  The Circle and Season

The Seventies Old Roads and Trains to NYC

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In the beginning there was a Nikon F and a 50mm F 1.4 and me seeking a muse only to discover I am “The Muse.” New Haven Rail Station waiting for Metro North and a ride to NYC. Just a student of Photographic Art looking for a song to sing.

New Haven NYC Metro N 005_1 S50 ShdHi DrkHi 70s Train NYC NH

I guess this trip was after rush hour perhaps the 9am a quiet platform. When I would catch the train at 6-7am there were many suits on the way to work and few seats on board. By the second trip at that hour I had figured out to go to the Bar Car where there were seats and coffee. I was surprised having read about commuters and drinks. The Bar Car was full on the return trip.

New HavenNYC Metro N S20 ShdHI DrkHi Spot Drk Hi 30The world pans out down the tracks 20 plus years later the Goober was grown and out west. My love for the social travel that is Amtrak became an affair I will continue. Many roads, rails to travel many visual adventures stories to tell.

Today I begin to review Forty Five Years of images, visual poetry stories told in a fraction of a second. Thanks to Mike and Jeannette ant the Photo Connection of Colchester their support and belief in my work has been there since close to the beginning for Mike. I now have a film scanner with their help I am getting to know how to use the scanner. There are many patrons in my life who have kept film in my camera, food in my belly and a twinkle in my eye.                      peace pjc

Photographic Art    More from the Seventies here much more to come stay tuned want something you remember let me know. All prints are for sale.