claywalker

those are some handsome lads but the guy in the middle has a head the size of a giant watermelon.

I see your one flag, and raise you two

I think this is a brilliant image. It's a very powerful statement. I like the fact that effect that you have captured is a natural / photographic one.

 

I would be curious to see how this image looks in color or some color in the flag.

Jimmy Scott is one of our greatest living Jazz musicians. The New York Times Magazine stated that Scott is "perhaps the most unjustly ignored American singer of the 20th century." I invite you to learn more about him and his wonderful music.

On July 14, 2004 some of the greatest living musicians performed a tribute to Miss Peggy Lee at the Hollywood Bowl. Freddy Cole performed two amazing numbers "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "You're My Thrill" accompanied by the LA Philharmonic. I watched in angst during the first song as I had been warned not to take any photos and had put my camera away... But after talking with his son, who was seated with me, we decided that I should not let this beautiful moment pass me by without trying... On the right side of the image is show producer Richard Barone looking on.

I am placing this image in the critique forum (even though I originally posted this image

many months ago) in loving memory of Spalding Gray whose body was finally recovered

today after he was declared missing for many weeks.

 

He was one of my greatest comedic heros and I will miss him dearly. I had the great

pleasure of meeting and photographing him 1988 which is where this image came from.

 

If you are unfamiliar with his amazing body of work, please look him up and experience

this wonderfully demented genius for yourself.

 

The world will not be the same place (for me) without him.

Both of these pictures were taken from the exact same spot, give or take a few inches, 16 years apart. They have obviously changed the benches over the years, changed the tiles on the ground, repainted the columns & chains and possibly even replaced the columns. I'm a little different too... so is NYC to say the least...

I took the top photo in 1987 when I lived in Hoboken and was 19 years old. The haze

that is surrounding the city was caused by a forrest fire that was occuring around the

North Carolina area, I believe. The smoke had made its way all the way to NYC and

covered the city in a haze for several days.

 

I finally made a trip back to Hoboken last weekend largely with the hopes of re-taking

the same photo. I am now 35 years old. It is somewhat safe to say that nothing is the

same in these two images...

I love them too! I did some really fun projects with them over a 4 year period. If you have the "Hot" or "Perennial Favorites" CDs, pop them in your computer and check out the interactive presentations that I created on them. I am going to add some more photos to this folder shortly.

In December of 1987, rush hour subway traffic was brought to a hault at the Jay Street-Borough Hall subway station when demonstrators climbed down onto the tracks in political protest. One month later they staged the second Day of Outrage. This time several thousand city and transit police, some of which pictured here, monitored and contained the march.

My grandfather battled with Parkinsons & Alzheimers for a good part of his latter years and was a very restless & wreckless creature, to say the least, as a result of this. He never accepted nor understood his deterioration and I think given my age, neither did I.

 

We brought him this pointsetta as a Christmas gift and placed it in his line of sight, for he physically could not move at this point.

 

I was 19 when I took this picture and made the choice then to capture this moment in this manner. The shot seems to me, now, to be quite peaceful in its appearance which may very well have been the opposite of the "reality" of the moment.

 

Robert passed away a few weeks later and this was the last time I saw him. I am glad that I have this image.

I spent a great deal of time in this nursing home as a young adult watching my

grandparents health deteriorate and too quickly loosing them. I began

taking these photos after getting to know many of the wonderful people who lived

here. I have posted a few of the images to this site. This image has always been very

haunting to me and immediately emotionally places me back in this nursing home

with just the slightest glance at it...

I like what you have done with this. I think I prefer this scan to the other one. I photographed Stonehenge a few months ago and it is not an easy thing. It is such an experience being there and to capture that feeling in a single image is tough task. Nice work.

Thanks Paul. Your comments are so great. I really appreciate you taking the time to write this.

 

Illuminating his face was an issue. I remember when I took this I had finally gotten a replacement camera (mine had been stolen in an apartment buglary) and had no lighting equipment. I tried to plug in a photoflood light there and it killed the circuit breaker... The flourescent light that you see, became the primary and only light. You are right, he definitely needs some separation from the background. I am working on this for the physical print of this image.

 

Your other comment about the edge of table being illuminated, I am not sure which edge you are referring to. I did want to point out that at the bottom of the frame, under the piece of artwork with the gang member dying in the other's arms, is his actual portfolio and has a white edge and runs parallel and close to the edge of the pool table. That may be what you are seeing.

 

Thanks again.

At the time this photo was taken, Carlos was 20 years old. He wanted to quit being a

Florencia 13 (F13) gang member in South Central Los Angeles and go to school to

hopefully become a professional artist. It is my greatest hope that he is now 34 and

doing just that.

Wow! Thanks everyone for the wonderful and insightful comments. I appreciate it very, very much.

This is an enormously personal photo that I took when I was about 22 years old and I

do wish to share it. This was my grandmother after she had a stroke and her

daughter, my mother. My grandmother passed away two years later.

Hi, I took this image nearly 15 years ago and this is the first effort I have made to

show it publicly. This image was taken in a derelict cemetary in Memphis in 1988.

The incision that the marker has made into the tree as the tree has grown around it

almost looks like the tree is giving birth to the marker yet it was the actual grave that

gave birth to the tree... The cemetary was closed and the remains moved shortly

after this photo was taken.