Ones I like...reposted

Hinckley Farm is changing

I am not sure how there can be so many shells at a sluice on a farm.

Lost Shoes

These were sitting on a bench at the corner of State and Fifth in Downtown Redlands.

Love

Redlands, between Orange and Fifth, Citrus and State Streets

More with the point and shoot; think of them as photographic sketches.

Click on them, though, and you'll notice it is possible to get decent detail with a P&S: the peeling paint on the counterweight in the B&W shot, the grain in the plywood of the shed, the texture of the cement in the F.W. Woolworth sign. And I downsized them for the web!

Myrtle leaves

I've been mourning my former residence. The grapefruit are in the back yard where I live now (taken with Canon SD780 IS P&S); I took the picture of myrtle leaves last year in the front yard where I lived (shot with Canon Rebel XSi with a 17-40 f/4 L lens at 27mm).

5 Citrus Street, Redlands CA

My son takes Spanish lessons in this building.

shot with camera phone

Have dripping clouds always been around...

and I have just started to notice?

This is from Palm Desert, direct from the camera except for a small amount of increased contrast.

shot with Canon Rebel XSi with the kit lens

A few photos from 1979-83

I found these images when I was going through some boxes.
They were taken between 25 and 30 years ago with a Konica T4 35mm SLR. I sent them this past week via mail to NCPS and had them scanned.

The little girl stood in a fountain in downtown Detroit in 1983.



I shot the image of the cabin at dawn on the tail end of a non-stop drive from Chicago to Worcester, MA, 1980.




The Grand Canyon in mid 1980.





The "open" sign comes from Ogunquit ME 1979.

I have been obsessed with trees since at least this shot from Ogunquit in 1979.

This is my sister in a sandstone formation in Arizona, 1979.

Trompe l'oeil

Can you tell which part of this photo is a painting and which is real?

A local dentist won a contest to paint a mural on the wall of a downtown Redlands building. Murals are one of the things that make the State Street area so visually interesting.

shot with Canon 780IS P&S.

My 5 year-old son took this picture

Which may be proof that he pays too much attention to the way I shoot (compose) pictures...

shot with Sony DSC-S90 p&s

Here is a picture I took a while back of a lamp at floor level in a local establishment. Unprocessed.

Taken with Canon 5D and f/1.4 50mm lens

Newport Beach - art the tide makes

As the tide advances and recedes at Newport Beach, it leaves marks in the sand that are gone with the next wave. Some of the waves left geometric designs, others created fanciful, temporary animal shapes.

shot with Canon P&S.

Requests

Here are pictures that come from a couple of requests. There are photos I took while in MO and also there are pictures of AJ Soldo's band Hwy 38 performing at Angels Roadhouse.

Light

I am trying an artisitc experiment in which I shoot with a p&s (point and shoot) camera. I say "artisitic" and that may sound pretentious, but I feel it is the opposite - I wish to see what I can capture with the available means...this is the first shot...

Shots from the airplane

This storm kept us circling Phoenix for an extra 20 minutes, but it was spectacular to watch.

Waterfall

I have no idea whether it is in Kansas or Missouri -it was quite a whirlwind three days- but I shot this at Powell Gardens.

Kansas

James told me to shoot this

James and I were lying side by side on the ground at a local park, staring up at the canopy of trees.

I tried to take a "myspace" - an arm's length self-photo - of the two of us.

James said, "Take a picture of the trees."

Shot with the 3MP camera onboard my LG Dare. I hate this phone...except this time.

Strange clouds over Beaumont

A couple new ones

From yesterday.

Here are a few more photos from the last year or so. I included a couple of non-smiling portraits. I like to catch real emotion: happiness, anger, thoughtfulness...but there are enough people using cameras to capture happiness. Other emotions interest me more, even when they make me uncomfortable. Enough explanation...why say why?

The Hinckley Property

I think most photographers have a place that they return to again and again to photograph, drawn to the things they see and feel there. The Hinckley property, up the block and across the street from my house, is my place. And it will be gone soon.

The Hinckley property is a large area of neglected land. Orange, grapefruit, and avocado trees grow unkempt there. Ducks and red-winged blackbirds skitter across a series of irrigation ponds. Rabbits and squirrels dart between the rusted water tanks and windmills that punctuate the land.

A small group of out-buildings, formerly used to store and service the equipment that managed the farm, have since been home to caretakers, migrant workers, gang members and even one man who, according to legend, bought and sold body parts from there.

In short, it is a beautiful, ominous place, cross between wildlife habitat and junkyard, just possibly the perfect setting for a "no one can hear you if you scream" horror flick.

It wasn't always a mess, but the owner died, and his brother cannot make a living from it. In order to sell the property, the brother has to level the whole area to the smooth, concrete-friendly surface that developers require.

At least that is what the caretaker told me the last time I went there to shoot pictures. He is charged with cutting down all the trees.

It is a shame, but inevitable, I suppose, that no land can lay this idle, this perfectly decayed for too long. Here are some pictures I have taken there recently.