Category Archives: HDR Ive shot St Severin before but I keep coming back because, although it’s in a fairly busy section of the left bank it’s still a quiet, and empty neighborhood church and I can use a tripod without getting snagged…perhaps also because it’s my middle name. Here a quick and dirty 3 exposure HDR GPS:…  A quick trip to Boston on New Year’s Day, lunch at The Union Oyster House, the oldest restaurant in America, and a walk through the crucible of American democracy. Good Excuse for a little urban HDR and a slightly different perspective in the Holocaust Memorial. Look closely and you can see the victims’ ID numbers…  With its 58 buildings boarded up to the light of day the Medfield State Hospital is a deserted campus replete with dormitories, classroom and administration buildings, even a chapel. Shuttered for 10 years now it is a ghost town, at once intriguing and intimidating, given it’s history. Porches on the dormitories aren’t just porches…they are…  “It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.” Edgar Degas Suddenly Degas’ perspective has new found resonance. Recording history…a moment in time… has its place, but “the…  Such is the muttering I found my self uttering as I ambled down Frog Alley, a winding and marginally paved road that quickly turns to dirt north of Freyburg, Maine looking for the Hemlock Bridge. As that Led Zeppelin song, “The Crunge” rattled through my head, I rolled past cornfields and meadows ripe with… |
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