Littoral SymphonyOregon - 2023

Littoral Symphony

This is a beach scene on the upper Oregon coast taken in November 2023. The title comes from a combination of two things. A geologist might refer to the scene as “littoral”. And to  me, the scene has a rhythm that reminds me of multiple instruments with different tones. 

It’s a moderately long exposure of about 6 seconds, which was long enough to give a sense of motion, both in the sky and water.

My intent was to express the organic nature of the sea and adjacent beach immediately after a storm. It had been raining for several days and as it turned out would rain for several more days after this.

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Waterscapes I PDF PhotoBook

I've just completed my first PDF PhotoBook. It's titled Waterscapes I and includes 16 recently completed waterscapes. Please download it using the link above. To downloand click the link above or click on the image. Downloading the photobook may take a few minutes.

The book is optimized for Acrobat on a computer. Some of the navigation buttons won't work in Acrobat on a tablet so it's necessary to use Acrobat's navigation controls when viewing on a tablet.

I produced the book as a way to prepare for Denver's Month of Photography portfolio reviews. The portfolio in the book will be reviewed by six reviewers (museum curators, gallery owners and curators, photobook publishers) on March 15, 2025. Since it's a PDF photobook it will be easy to make a revised version with any suggestions from the reviews that I decide to implement.

Thanks to Brooks Jensen at LensWork for the inspiration to create the book and for his PDF photobook workshop, which was a big help in getting familiar with InDesign and Adobe Acrobat features that I wasn't previously aware of. The book is based on Brooks' template provided in that workshop.

Vertical ConcertoSteel spirals climb high Glass notes ripple through dark air Towers sing skyward The curved glass and steel elements create a visual rhythm that sort of mirrors musical notation – each horizontal line of the building's facade acts like a staff line in a musical score. The interplay between the tower structures suggests an interplay of musical instruments The black and white treatment enhances this musical parallel, reminiscent of piano keys. The curved forms even evoke the shape of classical instruments, particularly the cylindrical body of a woodwind or the scroll of a string instrument.

This black and white image is of a group of rounded buildings in Downtown Houston. The buildings were originally offices of the now disgraced and defunct company known as Enron. The lines around the buildings bring to mind a musical score. So I’ve applied a musical theme.

The Haiku accompanying this image is:

Steel spirals climb high
Glass notes ripple through dark air
Towers sing skyward

This image is from 2015 when I was living and working in the Houston area.

The image was created with a superwide angle lens @15mm.

FlowSouth Platte River - 2021 Eddies 2South Platte River - 2021 Eddies 1South Platte River - 2021 This is a series of three long exposure images of eddies and flow in the South Platte River at the confluence with Cherry Creek in Denver. It's necessary to catch the river at a time when the flow is such that it will create eddies with white delineation. Sometimes the river runs too fast and sometimes too slow to get these images. The exposure times were several minutes using neutral density filters. 

PopulusShimering Aspen Leaves

The new Populus Hotel in Denver. The architecture is intended to evoke Aspen leaves shimmering. it does that for me. This will be a subject that I'll go back to from time to time. This image was made with a wide angle lens. This seems like a subject for the tilt shift with long exposure to create streaks of clouds. Stay tuned.

Inferno MemoriesSkyscrapers at rest, cloud streaks trace a fiery past— stillness breathes a lie.

This work is from a photo during the recent Julia Anna Gosporadou workshop in London. The title is: Inferno Memories.

Caption: 

Skyscrapers at rest,  
cloud streaks trace a fiery past—  
stillness breathes a lie.

Lloyds

This is an image created from a photo at the recent London workshop. It is the Lloyds building viewed vertically up, including the curved building across the street. 

All of the photo files with the GFX100S from this day and the next were corrupt. What a disappointment. Luckily I was able to recover them using Stellar's recovery software so it all turned out okay.

This was a tremendously time-consuming and difficult image to process for me.

Tower BridgeTower Bridge with The Shard and The Boomerang in the Background

A long exposure image (4 minutes) capturing cloud movement over Tower Bridge and The Shard in London.

This image is from the recent Julia Gosporadou workshop in London.