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Sanderlings in Sun

Homebound for a week, I’ll be posting some images from a few years ago that I’ve been wanting to revisit. I like thinking of image files (or negatives etc) as the score. You have the music and you can play it however the spirit moves you.

Napeague State Park, NY, 2019

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Night Walks – 2

Once I moved into a darker setting last night, I realized I might’ve been overstating my phone’s ability to render shadowy areas consistently. It becomes more difficult in low light to stitch a nocturne together without some artifacts. I remember this happening with my older phone as well. To some extent, this can be mitigated by finding a stable platform for the phone, but I’m trying to keep the gear bag empty. Last night’s “moonwalk” resulted in patchy sharpness so I decided to have some fun with treatment to see if there were some interesting directions to take the files. As some of you know, I collect inexpensive antique photographs, so those hundred year old patinas are itching to find a way into pictures I’m working on.

Phone used for photograph: Samsung Galaxy A35 5G

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Night Walks 1

November brings on short day length and so it’s a good time to see if we can make something interesting happen with darkness. With the set I posted in December ’22 in mind, I’m taking evening walks around town looking for photographs. Most current cell phones have a night mode feature which can, with a little practice, permit you to capture sharp, hand-held images. So, for this set, my camera stays home.

There’s an argument to shoot night photographs in monochrome, but I’m starting off in color to see what happens where nature meets artificial light. This first piece combines some of that light with the distortion of the phones ultra-wide angle.

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