iron shore gallery

I once drew a large rectangle on my art classroom's floor, and brought my prof in there to critique it. Robert D'Arista. He was not impressed, but then that was in the mid 60's.

Nice photo. One a day of the same transmorgafication?

This is another photo from the series that Ive taken of where fliers

and posters and announcements have been stapeled onto some telephone

poles around Portland. To my eyes they weather beautifully and

express visually the same thing as that super novel by Martin Amis

called "Time's Arrow." The novel has a the format where we are

reading from the latest to the oldest down a stack of mail that has

come to him our protagonist.

This is a place on a telephone pole where posters and fliers and

announcements about lost dogs and tupperware parties have been stapled

up for many years... and the rain and weather beats on it and time

moves on and more papers about other tragedies and big parties and

yard sales come along and get stapled right over yesterdays events

that we should have heard about, but might have missed, and now they

are gone forever... ripped even... invisible behind the news that came

later.

I have photographed this building many times... it is a car salesroom.

The building and windows have been covered with graffiti over the

years, but now it is being renovated. The doors were open... I walked

right in and set up my tripod... I was one of them.

This is a photo I took of a place on a telephone pole where posters

and annoncements have been stapeled up for years, here in Portland.

The papers tear and weather, and to my eyes many beautiful moments are

to be seen there. One problem... people and even cars stop to watch

the man with the tripod photographing the telephone poles around town.

This is a little section of a place where posters and announcements

have been stapeled up onto a telephone poles. Over the years they

build up and start weathering and getting beautiful.

This is a photo of a place where posters have been stapeled up on a

telephone pole for years.

This is a photo of where windows have been covered many times with

graffiti. The place is being renovated now and I just walked in and

started shooting... no one blinked.

The right side of the photo is a big mirror.

Id love some comments...

This is a heavily "polished" photograph. This photo is just the

central part of a big photo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/f0rTyLeGz/DA%20thread/jan0507014ooriginal.jpg

so after settling on balance and color pretty much I ended up with

this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/f0rTyLeGz/DA%20thread/jan0507014.png

, then I took out the dumpter and all the cars above it. Then I took

out the refledtion on the car in the window. Then I took out the big

curve in the building that is in the reflection, and of course my

reflection that was in there. I fixed up the parking lot and took off

the dark lamp on the near the window on the building back there. I

used the curve tool as a final tweak. Then I took out the last light

that was in the trees and looked like a plastic trash bag that had

blown up there.

Hope you enjoy what I do to a photo... Id like to know what your

thoughts of going through all that uh "polishing".

I took many of this scene... and the most interesting thing for me was that this IS the color of the trees.

Plus, most of the sky in this photo was lifted from another photo of the same spot. The original sky was too white. I wouldnt want to do more to the sky... getting between the tree tops was time consuming. But another sky would have been nice, a bright blue sky with a few clouds perhaps?