Tag: flowers
Scans from Prints 69
Datura and Passion Flower, Berkeley, 1987. Platinum-palladium print on 100% cellulose paper (Van Gelder Simili Japon) from original 8×10 inch negative. My dear friend, and mentor-whose-mentorship-I-resisted, Ron Partridge, had a habit of gleaning flowers and plant material during early morning jaunts through his neighborhood. He loved that I loved datura flowers. And he loved to hear […]
Scans from Prints 55
Dave’s Flower, Linlithgow, Scotland, 1988. Platinum-palladium print on 100% cellulose paper (Fabriano 5) from original 8×10 negative (made for my dear friend, David Williams) “The last of winter, a hard grey lump of snow, blocked the ditch. Silently, imperceptibly, the little rill of ditch-water unwove the stubborn snow, carried it off, a cold shining music, down […]
Scans from Prints 39
Orchids, Thanksgiving, Sewanee, TN. November, 2015. Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT Vellum from enlarged digital negative. [and more: Photographed with a Sony Alpha 7 r II, Zeiss Sonnar 150mm / f4 Hasselblad mount lens with an extension tube and adapter. The DNG file was processed in Lightroom: Treatment set to Black and White; Tone Curve inverted; […]
Another World
Luca, Kiran, Craig and the Star Wars Cupcake. Laurel Lake, NH. July, 2012. We crave to bring the imagined into existence. Many artists have spoken of this in numerous ways, and all summed up with ‘making the invisible visible’. But it may be possible that phenomena crave to shape us, in spite of and despite […]
hope
Onion Flowers, on Ron and Elizabeth Partridge’s Dining Table. Berkeley, CA. June 1987 Silver gelatin print Listening to Barack Obama’s speech to Congress yesterday filled me with hope. But politics, like shadows, is all about illusion and apparition. It is all about the forms it falls on, as opposed to the form it actually is. […]
happy 91st birthday Ron!
Passion Flower, Berkeley, CA. 1986 platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in. My friend Ron Partridge turned 91 a few days ago. He celebrated by attending a reception / exhibition of his work at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. I wish I could have been there to hear him talk. This image was made […]