Photography and the Creative Process

Still Life Gallery Opens

March 14, 2010

I have opened a new Still Life gallery at my Online Photo Gallery.  While my interest has centered on photographing people in recent years, I have a number of pictures that can best be described as still life images.

The photo in this post, Table Plane Study, is one such example.  I was particularly struck by the way the several mirrors in the image portrayed the table top.  That scene presents a study in planes, which I captured upon strolling into an antique shop in Washington, D.C. over 20 years ago.

Spirit of a Boy

March 13, 2010

Going through a box of old work prints, I came across this image which I call Spirit of a Boy. In this instance, I made a number of exposures of my young son, backlit as he stood before a window in a camp facility in upstate New York. I wasn’t sure about the metering of the light. While my subject is extremely underexposed in this picture, the resulting image makes for quite a striking photograph.