We had a tremendous wind storm up here on the coast of Maine last month. Many outages, including power here for a week. This tree could have come down across our driveway pinning us in for who know how long. Instead it followed the south wind and fell to the north, away from the drive. Whew.
I do wish my blogging platform here supported a 'click to enlarge' function...there is so much great detail in the black&white image. Shame. I'd look for another blogging tool but I feel it's too late to start over...and I know the only alternative supported by my hosting company will be WordPress, which I despise. I was on Concrete5 many years ago, but too old to learn new tricks I suspect. Enjoy.

Some recent landscapes made within minutes of my home

A nice rainy saturated day. Amazing what it does for the colors, if not the expressions. :)

This was a my best impression of Garry Winogrand's style of obfuscation street photography. [copyright me, now]. If you've never seen Garry in action start here: http://bit.ly/2jTIShN

I love, and thought I came up with, his strategy of looking around aimlessly or fiddling with my camera when a potential subject noticed me. Ha. This lady was having none of it, but I didn't know that until I opened the images from the day. I'd lowered the camera as if having lost interest, but kept it pointed in her direction as I fired off one last shot.

​I think she knew.

​What makes a photograph successful? This is one of the biggest questions we photographers face, and the answer is often different from one person to the next.

For myself, B&W photos are the only 'real' photos. Wow, a pretty reckless and irresponsible statement, right?
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Yes, and of course color has its place...just look at Eric Meisel, Steve McCurry, Pete Turner, et al. Color can be great and I use it very often. 

That said, in my opinion, B&W photos are unique in their ability to transport the viewer into another world.

To me, this image of a frozen lake in RI is an interesting. There is some depth and drama to it., while the next one of a guy named Dave, which was taken in a very photogenic spot on a blustery morning, isn't really interesting...unless perhps you know Dave or I had included more compelling elements from the area.

And then again,  this third image of friend Jeff is very visually interesting to me, to the point that I'd include it in a portrait portfolio. 

​So, what do you think?

But in this case it's true. Redesigning a site's layout [to a lesser degree in this case] and galleries [to a much larger one] is a big task. And, having just committed to more frequent posts, something had to give. So. The nav links are going to send you to galleries that aren't finely curated yet. Enjoy them while you see 'em, a lot of the mis-filed images you'll come across will actually be retired soon.

Boston, pocket camera, about a dozen years ago. Nothing like looking back through 100k images now and again.

I've adopted Epson's Legacy Fiber Matte as my new default paper for the 3880. Was introduced to it at the John Paul Caponigro [http://bit.ly/2zwfaGJ] workshop I attended earlier this year. At first I dismissed the matte paper as too flat and absorbent. Bought a box and now I'm hooked. You never do know what will come out of a workshop like JP's, and I sure didn't see this coming. Love it.