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Keep Mother Earth Fertile, Earthday 2015

04.22.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // Leave a Comment

_DSC0670 S30 D75Shadow Iris 4-21-15Outside my window 5:30 yesterday afternoon.

_DSC0656 S50 DShad70 yellow Iris 4-21-15Sometimes a flower is just a flower. Paraphrasing Georgia O’Keeffe. Peace pjc

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Categories // Abstract, Fertile, Flowers, Olympia Wa. Tags // Abstraction, Color Fine Art, Flowers, Olympia, Photographic Art

Prime Lens are Better for your Cardiovascular Health

04.21.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // Leave a Comment

Well maybe but not a lot but I think it adds to my creativity or focus level. One of Diane Arbus’s early mentors said “you must care passionately about your subject or why bother?” When I work with a subject on location I want to feel the space by walking around closer, farther I feel more in the space. Simply I work slower allowing my eyes to see different distances rather than stand in the same place and zooming. The sense of space more importantly the negative space what is going on in the frame that isn’t my subject. A subject is not always a person, could be a tree, a landscape anything just be totally involved passionate. 

negative28-edited S30 Film Tenino 3-26-15

Tenino Wa. B+W film scan from negative 3-26-15 below is a digital of the same decaffeinated to B+W maybe it is me or my poor post production skill but film is B+W for real. More creative wanderings… Image here is made with Nikkor 105mm F-2.5 a prime lens. Digital is a 18-55mm Kit Zoom. Lens is really 28.8-88mm something Nikon neglects to mention in their data. It’s an 18 on a full sensor but not on the D-3100. The prime 105 is Brass and Glass not at all fashionable to a convenient driven photographer. It’s heavy but it’s sharp.  With the diggie I exposed more frames with the zoom, a little wider more close up. With film step back re frame bang 3 images and knowing I had what I wanted.

_DSC0051 S30 +R3+G2-B3 B+W

So with film you end up taking a few more steps not a big cardio gain every little bit helps. You also get a bit more time to explore the image you will make.

Photographic Art  Silver Gelatin

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Categories // B+W Fine Art, B+W Silver Gelatin, Black and White Fine Art, Olympia Wa., Soul, Uncategorized

Three women, different interpretations all self portraits.

04.17.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // Leave a Comment

Serenity Cafemantic-5-11-12-IMG_0194 (2)May 2012 Cafemantic Serenity

_DSC0017 PS1-1-30-15 MorganJanuary 2015 Olympia  Morgan

42d00befb01b2My studio Norwich Ct. July 2005 Leila

The roll of the photographer is that of a voyeur, never reaching his subject’s soul, But for brief instances when the subject’s heart is offered, only to be interpreted and re-created with a cross breeding of the image makers own soul.

January 22, 2001 © Peter J. Crowley

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Photographic Art

Categories // Abstract, allure, Identity, Layered Life, Models, Norwich Ct, Olympia Wa., Willimantic

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