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Fall to winter ramblings

12.10.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // 7 Comments

DSC_0085 Ss15 Sat+20 Nisqually 9-26-15

Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge  Sept. 26th late afternoon light. Could be Vermont in the 70’s a farm a dirt road to visual adventures. But it’s the other side of the country the other side of life.

Dec 1st a stroll with film camera out before the deluge. Darkness 1pm ISO 400 1/125 F5.6 I shake the meter, test the batteries even cloudy this is not mid day light. A visit to the past waiting for the bus a 70’s era Olds cruises by Eight Cylinders straight pipes sounds of my youth. A one time subject possible muse too busy to shoot I understand, she needs not tell me. Creativity a passing fancy that briefly nourished my soul an appetizer to the main course that never arrives. 

Traditions reading the paper my shoulder aches another part that needs repair. Like an old auto I move forward. Darkness, Darkness visiting this journal, film the window seat Capital Lake Park cold empty devoid of kites, volleyball nets, gleeful children, legs and fannies decorated in geometric  brightly colored  patterns hibernating….. Striped legs flash through the cafe thick wool, winter coat, scarf a momentary memory of summer. Abstraction as yet unfulfilled images perhaps they will bloom again in spring? Now bare trees gray light a winter sound track.          peace pjc

Photographic Art

Categories // Autumn, Color Fine Art, Farms, Fine Art Photographs, Identity, Journeys between here and there, Olympia Wa., Passionate Observer, Reflecting on past, The City as a Muse, Washington Tags // Ambiance, Blending the past and the present, Color Fine Art, Humanity, Olympia, Photographic Art, Reflections, Seasons

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

11.03.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // 2 Comments

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.

Categories // allure, B+W Fine Art, Black and White Fine Art Photography, Color Fine Art, Coventry Ct., Digital and Film, East Haven Ct., Figures, Fine Art Photographs, Identity, Nikon, old cars, Olympia Wa., Performing Arts, Reflecting on past, Soul, Uncategorized Tags // Color Fine Art, Figure Studies, Kodachrome, Olympia, Photographic Art, Portraits, X Black and White Fine Art Photography

Moments Scattered Memories. One Year in Olympia, Past Life Inspirations Friends. Peace

10.21.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // 8 Comments

Worcestermarch1951About One here in Worcester a journey starts with a smile.

 

ColorFineArt-Nov.WalkStonyCreek-T-193-73-27Kodachrome 1973 Stony Creek not looking back a road a straw hat a story told.

Route 32 Old Road, New image.

Many roads traveled through New England paved by the Willington Hysterical Society

March 3rd 2012 Interiors Portraits-IMG_0126Satch and Bruce a warm stove an old 1700’s home

Maarit Nov 19th 2011 Me and Carl IMG_0010Carl and me Members Show Photosynthesis Gallery 136 1/2 November 2011. Four months after my Hospital extended visit. Carl there always. peace my friend.

ArnoldPrince-12-00-18Arnold Prince. Every moment with him was an inspiration with a smile, an infectious laugh and Tea. 

One year today in Oly. one year since driving my Honda. Extreme highs and lows the middle ground rarely. Sometimes here sometimes in Ct. the mind journeys. So much to do to arrive in this new life. So many images to catalog, memories good and bad. The road not taken, would I have moved to Brattleboro if still in N.E. could I deal with winter. Slow starts to the day different then out the door 7am coffee at Merihew’s images both verbal and visual lingering over coffee. On to the next image, the best photo you have ever made is the next one. I still linger over morning coffee but alone. Sure I am not virtually alone online chatting without eyes to fully communicate. Not intimate enough. Bruce’s, Carl and Maarit’s Berta in her Lucky Charms PJs for lunch looking out on Norwich Harbor. Grandpa can we go to the restaurant? Bill Evans or The Violent Femmes what will today’s soundtrack be? This afternoon it will be the sound of sneakers on pavement the click of the shutter a breeze through the trees across the Puget Sound seeking the next image. Eyes wide open seeing with my heart there is no time just vision thoughts life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Peace pjc

Photographic Art    Shrimp and Garlic Pizza and an old Dodge

Categories // 1950, Artist Portrait, B+W Fine Art, Coffee, Documentary, Identity, Kodachrome, Nikon, old cars, Olympia Wa., Passionate Observer, Pizza, Present and Past Photographic art, Reflecting on past, Washington Tags // B+W Fine Art Photography, Blending the past and the present, Color Fine Art, Humanity, Kodachrome

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