Faceless Hipster

Collage on a postcard, made a coup;e of months ago.

Lil' Angel

Shot in a cemetery somewhere with my flipped-lens Kodak Brownie camera.

Sunset Houses

Houses in San Francisco's Sunset District.

Weed

Here's two versions of a photo shot in my mother's yard.

Home

Back home after visiting my mom and sister over Christmas. Here's one last photo I manipulated with iPad photo apps while on my visit.

Grapes

An ornament on my sister's Christmas tree.

Trees And Color

Here are two versions of a photo I took a couple of days ago in my mom's front yard. I like them both, even if the second one didn't turn out quite the way I expected. The iPad app I used to color the second one cropped the photo from the square format and I could not get it to change back. Definitely a weak point of that particular app, but I do like the photo.

Yellow Sky

I shot this earlier today, and adjusted the color using an iPad photo app.

Fruit

I am in Michigan visiting my mother over the holidays. Unlike previous trips to Michigan where I was unable to post this blog, I now have an iPad (thanks to my employer). So, I thought this would be a good time to try out some photo apps and post the results to the blog. Hopefully, not everything I post will be overprocessed.

Chinatown WIndow

Shot while wandering around Chinatown sometime last year.

Snow On Leaves

Shot Thanksgiving weekend at my Mom's in Michigan.

Clear Mountain Stream

Shot while hiking in the Cascades mountains in Washington last summer.

Stripes

Shot in Chinatown a couple of years ago.

Variations

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I had a nasty flu or something (not quite sure it was the flu). Here's a couple of variations on a photo of Chicago's Marina Towers to catch up. I did these while working with color effects in Photoshop as part of a class last year. The original is first, and two versions with color variations follow.

Pole

Shot with my flipped-lens Kodak Brownie camera last October.

Balcony

Shot from the balcony of my hotel room in Vancouver last summer.

Living In The City

I made this collage a few weeks ago. The background image is a photo I shot out my sister's kitchen window, back when she lived in an apartment halfway up Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Amazing views from that apartment, although I sometimes felt a bit like a voyeur looking out them.

Ghostly Jesus

Shot a couple of years ago with my flipped lens Kodak Hawkeye camera.

Yellow Flowers

Shot a couple of months ago while walking around my neighborhood.

Red World

This is what photos shot in digital infrared look like before they are converted to gray scale for the classic infrared look.
Here's the same photo after being adjusted:

A Test

With this post I'm testing my new iPad. I got them to buy me an iPad at work because I can use it when I'm teaching. So, I'm using the blogger app for this post. I took the photo with the iPad's camera. It's a photo of the messy desk in my studio with some in progress collages. instead of writing this post, I'm speaking it because the iPad has voice recognition which is good when you're horrible typist like I am.

Lovely Fall Day

Shot a couple of years ago on the University of Chicago campus.

Mid Michigan

Shot while visiting my Mom last weekend.  This isn't her yard, like the other photos I've been posting. This is a few miles away from her house.

Mom's Yard Part 3

Here's another photo shot in my Mom's yard last weekend. This was on Thanksgiving day, which was beautiful, sunny and warm.

Dried Flower

Shot in my Mom's yard this past weekend.

Home For The Holiday

I spent Thanksgiving weekend at my Mom's in Michigan, and as I often do, spent some time wandering around her yard shooting photos. I'll post some over the next few days.

Happy Thanksgiving

I'll be visiting family over Thanksgiving weekend, and will resume posting on Monday. For those that celebrate Thanksgiving, hope it's a good one!

Autumn Panorama

Shot a few weeks ago in the Dan Ryan Woods, in southwest Chicago.
I've been asked why I don't use Photoshop to seamlessly stitch together the photos in these panoramas. My answer: Because I like them like this. The perspective shifts and out of sync areas are interesting to me. I find seamless panoramas boring.

Ruins

Shot at Aquincum in Budapest in 2007.

Yellow Leaves

Shot on a rainy day a few weeks ago.

Atomic Eye

I made this collage a couple of months ago. I've posted it on my Tumblr and my Facebook page, and people seem to like it, so I'm posting it here as well.

Infrared Mausoleum

Shot this past summer with infrared film.

Factory

I was driving around, looking for interesting things to shoot a couple of years ago, and happened upon this old abandoned factory on the far south side of Chicago.  I shot there a couple of times a few months apart, and it was obvious then that it was in the process of being demolished. It's now a vacant lot.

Jewelry, Stamps, Taxidermy

Shot this outside of a combination nutritional supplement/antique store a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, the store was closed, so I wasn't able to go in. Looked interesting, however.

Happy!

Congratulations to President Obama on a well-deserved victory.

The Gruesome Twosome

Shot with my reversed lens Kodak Brownie camera a few weeks ago. The title of this post refers to a late 60's Herschell Gordon Lewis campy horror film. Wigs play a prominent part in that film.

Mountain Trail

Shot while hiking in the Cascades last summer.

Tea

High tea at the Fairmont hotel, Victoria, BC. Shot this past July.

Purple

Shot a few weeks ago while wandering around with my camera.

Happy Halloween!

Shot with my reverse-lens Kodak Brownie camera a couple of years ago.

Open

Shot in Chicago a few weeks ago.

Through The Window

Shot through the window of a car speeding down the freeway earlier today. Composition and focus are a little off, but I like the colors.

Trick Or Treat!

Shot with my Holga camera a couple of years ago on Halloween night.

Wigs!

Shot last Sunday, before wandering around shooting the fall colors in a forest preserve.

Fall Trees And A Mid-Century Building

I love the color in this photo, and the light reflecting off of the ceiling of the building.