squares² # 6 ~ common beauty / beauty in common (made easy)

People + food + civilized ku + ku • click to embiggenIt's finally here, the amazing picture making thing you've all been waiting for ...

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Picture making meaning, beauty, artistry, and EVERY-click-of-the-shutter success made easy. Haven't we all been yearning - in fact, secretly lusting - for a picture making thing which can " take what you see and make it into something even more beautiful than it already is." Who would have dreamed that a picture perfect world is just a picture making thing purchase away?

I mean, it's like getting your money for nothin' and your chicks for free. And, you don't even have go all bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee.

*taken from a marketing email for a picture making device which shall remain nameless.

squares² # 5 ~ common beauty / beauty in common

ku + civilized ku + food together • click to embiggen

ku # 1223 ~ quietening things and not enhancing them

Mountains ~ Jay, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen

While photography is often seen as the amplification of something, it is also good at doing the opposite, quietening things and not enhancing them, and then perhaps you want to look at the picture, or study it, more. ~ Stephen Gill

civilized ku # 2391 / ku # 1220 / single women # 26 ~ time flies when you're having fun

Mirror Lake* / snow ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Single woman ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Bonsai tree ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenLast week seemed like a very short week - the wife and I didn't get back from our long weekend away until late on Monday and on Thursday it was on to Lake Placid for an overnight at the wife's workshop / retreat. It was her event and I was just along as arm candy. Throw in a rush picturing job and I didn't know what time / day it was, much less where the time went.

In any event, I have fallen way behind in posting pictures. I must have 20 or more, made over the last 2 weeks, ready to go. This week is looking a little more normal, so I'll try my best to get them all posted, along with answering a few questions raised in comments.

*It may seem a bit odd but, Mirror Lake is in the center of the village of Lake Placid. Lake Placid (the lake) adjoins the village as well, albeit mostly out of sight.

ku # 1219 ~ entre chien et loup

Moon over Blue Mountain Lake ~ Blue Mountain Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenWere I to be light chaser, the light to be encountered during the time of day the French call entre chien et loup - literally translated as between the dog and the wolf - would be the light I would chase. That is, the soft light which bathes the landscape after the sun has set but before darkness descends).

In fact, I have a body of work which is comprised of just such light. Most of the pictures in that body of work were made with my 8×10 Arca Swiss view camera utilizing 8×10 Type L (long exposure) color negative film (some exposures were up to 20 minutes long and Type L color negative film was formulated to deal with the reciprocity failure - color-shifting, as dye layers of the film absorb light unevenly over the prolonged exposure). The color results from that combination, printed by me or one of my assistants on Ektacolor paper (C print), were amazingly delicate / subtle - a result which also recorded the same entre chein et loup qualities of the light.

Some may be wondering why I used past tense verbs (was ... were) in the preceding paragraph. That's simply because I haven't made pictures with that view camera / film for over a decade more. The reason for that is also simple - as sheet film + processing have become harder to find than hen's teeth, I simply wasn't up the task of dealing with the film / processing issue, not to mention having to set up a darkroom in which to make prints (which assumes C print paper and chemistry won't become equally scarce).

In any event, I am currently closing in on a digital domain image file processing routine which is coming close to my past film / C print results.

dyptich # 12 ~ truncated trunks

Tree trunks ~ Tawhaus, NY / Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen

civilized ku # 2384-87 / ku # 1219-20 ~ Autumn yellows with a sprinkling of red

Yellow leaves / red barn ~ Jay, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Yellow crab apples / tree ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen
Yellow leaves / red building ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen
Yellow leaves / red leaves ~ Near Jay, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Yellow leaves / red leaves ~ Near Keeseville, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Yellow chair / red ears ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Yellow trailer / red leaves ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

civilized ku # 2383 / triptych # 4 / 5 (ku # 1216-18 / civilized ku # 2380-82) ~ thickets and pumpkins

Little Au Sable River ~ Peru, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenRoadside thicket ~ Peru, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenPrays pumpkins ~ Keeseville, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenIt is a beautiful October day on which to be out and about.