Photography and the Creative Process

Pinhole Photograph

I took a basic photography course in college in 1981. In that class I made a pinhole camera out of a tubular oatmeal box in which I exposed photographic paper. The image below was created using that pinhole camera.

Still Life Gallery Opens

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.

Table Plane Study

Spirit of a Boy

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.

Spirit of a Boy

Hot Time at the Cotton Club

Bill has collaborated with the Seraphim Quartet, a women’s vocal group, to create the Focus on Seraphim website at www.seraphim.wmgphoto.com.

Bill’s latest post to that website features the photograph, Hot Time at the Cotton Club, reproduced below.

Hot Time at the Cotton Club

Prisoner of Life

In a recent visit to Baltimore’s Fells Point, I captured this image, which I call Prisoner of Life. Prisoner of life resides in the Street Photography portfolio at my online photo gallery, www.wmgphoto.com