Interesting photographs do not have to come from complex and expensive camera systems. For fun I occasionally go out and shot a roll of film in an old camera such as a simple box camera. The photo below was taken with a Vagabond 120 made by United States Camera Company. I did minor editing of photo and added a sepia tone.
East Broad Top RR taken with Vagabond Box Camera
This photo was taken in May of 1970 in Harpers Ferry, WV. This horse drawn hearse was in the back yard of a house neighboring the National Park there. I made inquires of the Park Service a few years ago about the hearse and they have no records that if ever belonged to them. I have a series of photos of this subject and will post more at some time.
Hearse at Harpers Ferry, No. 1
As you can see from my post yesterday, I have enjoyed photographing the Gettysburg Cyclorama. Today I am doing something a little different. Instead of one photo, I am doing a slide show of the photos taken at the same time as the one posted yesterday. I was concentrating on details during this visit, which unfortunately was very short, about an hour. The reflections, windows and shutters all seemed to draw me in on a late afternoon with grey skies. These were taken in color and converted to black and white with a slight toning added. The slide show is produced using oQey plugin for WordPress.
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I have always felt a special connection with Richard Neutra’s, Gettysburg Cyclorama Building. I visited many times during the nearly 50 years it was open. I have viewed the battlefield from its observation platform, bought books in its bookstore, used the upstairs lobby to study photographs with friends and work on photographic equipment and did view the Gettysburg Cyclorama, which was the central purpose of the building. Today, this architecturally significant structure is deserted and the National Park Service wants to demolish it. I have been photographing the building whenever I am in the area. This photo was taken last March. I intend to post more of these photos.
Gettysburg Cyclorama, Window Reflection No. 1
Life and living beings are not two dimensional. We all have many layers and these layers form a complex entanglement. This photo was taken on the beach at Hunting Island, SC.
Layered Entanglement, Hunting Island, SC
Yesterday, spotted the Warrior pulled up on the flats of St. Helena Island, SC. I took a quick series of photos and intend to return and do a more extensive study. It is always sad to see the end of these classic commercial fishing boats!
Warrior, On the Flats, St. Helena Island
I took this series of photos about a year ago. There was a band playing on River Street in Savannah, GA and were asking for donations from those taking photographs, a little different approach. I had a great time taking photographs and donated a couple of dollars to the cause. Unfortunately they were in the shade with some serious backlighting. I had to do a little editing and below am attaching both the color and black and white version of two photos. I find often in these cases that black and white is more forgiving than color.
Guy and Girl from the Band, No. 1 Color - Photo for Nov. 9
Guy and Girl from the Band, No. 1 B&W - Photo for Nov. 9
Guy and Girl from the Band, No. 2 Color - Photo for Nov. 9
Guy and Girl from the Band, No. 2 B&W - Photo for Nov. 9
Edinburgh Castle is a great photographic subject. I took several series of photos to stitch together later into panoramic photographs. This one was taken with my infrared camera.
Edinburgh Castle No. 1 Panoramic
I have done several series of photos of what I call “From the Edge”, or in effect where land meets the water on our beach on Hilton Head Island. At low tide our beach and flats extend out several hundred yards beyond the high tide level on the beach. I find walking out into this in between space very interesting and has great potential photographically, particularly as interpreted via digital infrared.
Clouds Meet Water, Hilton Head Island Infrared - Photo for Nov. 7
The shrimp boats docked at Darien offer a fine photographic setting. I am looking forward to returning there this winter to photograph both the boats and the town itself.
Shrimp Boats, Darien, GA