Archives for March 2008
four of a kind
Sometimes serendipity strikes: I came across three of these photos today while flipping through books or browsing the web. The fourth, the Callahan, is on the wall just above my desk.
Waverly Street, Philadelphia
I haven’t been doing much urban landscape photography lately, so a quick trip to Philadelphia seemed to be a good opportunity to take my camera to the streets and shoot a roll or two. I am not very familiar with Philadelphia, but after walking the streets for a few hours I seemed to get the hang of it and found quite a few spots I liked. I shot most of a roll in this little alley near Rittenhouse Square.
Taking a picture, part three: the capture
Thanks for your interest in my “Taking a Picture” series. Just as a note, I have continued improving my digital workflow and some of these notes are now out-of-date. Feel free to drop a line in the comments or contact me directly if you would like more information on my photographic workflow.
Jem Southam at Robert Mann Gallery
Jem Southam is a color landscape photographer from England, and his exhibition “The Rockfalls of Normandy” opens tonight at the Robert Mann Gallery. If you have any interest in landscape photography whatsoever and you live in or near the NYC metro area, it would be a crime to miss this show. I can’t offer enough superlatives to get the point across—this is a show I would be terribly disappointed to miss and I would feel guilty if I didn’t let as many people know about it as possible.
Telling a story
Some of the most powerful photographs are the ones that tell an entire story in a single frame. These are the photographs that make me stop and think, that have made an indelible impression in my mind. I can’t imagine a day when I see one of the photographs below and don’t stop to appreciate them.