Photography and the Creative Process

Still Life Gallery Opens

Bill Gatesman — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:36:08 +0000

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

Bill Gatesman — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:52:14 +0000

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 Gatesman — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:31:03 +0000

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

Bill Gatesman — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:16:37 +0000

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

Message in a Bottle

Bill Gatesman — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:44:10 +0000

Message in a Bottle is an artwork derived from my photograph, Alpha and Omega, which photograph is reproduced below.

Like with Alpha and Omega, I have created physical works of art derived from other photographic images in the Focus on Religion gallery at www.wmgphoto.com. Schism II is based upon the photograph, Schism, which I have written about on this website in the article entitled Expanding the Frame.

Also discussed in that article is Welcome to Nirvana, a physical work of art comprised of the photograph of the same name enclosed in a wall sized Japanese Torii gate handcrafted out of weathered oak.