Klamath River Basin

#323
Source material: Workbench.
Last Friday, we attended an opening at 9610, a brand new gallery, garden, landscape space in Klamath Falls. The gallery has an eclectic collection of work, all relating to the landscape and gardenscape, and the office has a very cool workbench left over from when the building was used as a blacksmith shop. I took three shots that eventually will be a long horizontal composition. Here, I just stacked two of them.


#322
Source material: Piano case.
We also traveled to the mouth of the Klamath River to learn more of the ecosystem that makes the river such a dynamic place. The piano in the nearby hostel caught my eye.


#321
Source material: Seaweed.
On an early morning walk along the beach, I came across an explosion of confetti-like marine life washed up on shore. I found that muting the colors was even more interesting.


#322
Source material: Redwood trees, checker wrapping paper.
As Ann drove through the forest, I was happily snapping away. Bugs and mist on the windshield added to the foggy smudges.


#319
Source material: Driftwood, piano case.
Perhaps an obvious comparison.


#318
Source material: Idaho clouds, inkjet gibberish.
In looking for a file of something (don't even remember what it was) came across an uncompleted image that just needed a couple layers turned off and the gibberish turned vertical to feel more right; a good reminder that images that aren't working can just be left alone for a while, and more easily resolved when revisiting them.

Training

#317
Source material: Train.
This week, I intended to create purely “background” images consisting mainly of texture, and that led to reviewing images in my train directory. Here, an image that I had formerly passed over as too representational, really caught my eye. No manipulation to this photo other than to sharpen and adjust the levels.


#316
Source material: Train, wall texture.
This and the next image uses a damaged wall with some interesting shapes, contrasted and interacting with the oil tanker and gravel car.


#315
Source material: Train, wall texture.


#314
Source material: Painted wood.
This is a process where the subject is what would normally be a “background” in other pictures. It’s difficult to leave this one as is, but in fact, the intention was to have it be even less recognizable. An indication that this might be a great place to explore further.

Worlds apart

#313
Source material: Fabric, word list.
I keep being enthralled by the images from this photo shoot. The material looks good enough to eat. Here, the idea was to place a mental barrier between the viewer and fabric. The word list is a bunch of synonyms for the word "barrier."


#312
Source material: Clouds, kindergarten eyechart, globe.
A very lovely sunset a couple nights ago produced these clouds, which when turned upside down, reminded me of photos of the Earth from orbiting spacecraft. This image and #311 took on a very formal presentation of diverse images.


#311
Source material: Spring, tree, dogwood blossom (monitor capture), kindergarten eyechart.
These images sort of represent a fairly small circle of my world. The spring is from a sculpture above my desk, the dogwood projected on my monitor and re-photographed, and the tree from across the street.

I would like to point out that the multi-panel series from last week has been reworked, and can be seen here.

Spring Creek Massacre

What a mess. I thought the idea for this week's work was a good one, but the results seem to refute that. I took twelve frames of Spring Creek as I walked along the water's edge; an odd, disjointed panorama that somehow still gave the flavor of the place. I wanted to treat each frame individually with multiple overlay collage elements, then combine all twelve in one piece, intensifying the jaggedness of misaligned frames, but somehow keeping the creek intact and distinguished.

The individual pieces are now posted, and the combined work can be seen on the "featured" gallery of my website. Your feedback is welcome. I like the white unfinished area, since I couldn't decide how to finish it anyway; does the creek come out in good shape, or does it suffer continual abuse?

#309
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper.


#308
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper, oil drill chart, bullet-riddled metal sign.


#307
Source material: Spring Creek, oil drill chart, bullet-riddled metal sign.


#306
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper.


#305
Source material: Spring Creek.


#304
Source material: Spring Creek.


#303
Source material: Spring Creek, oil drill chart, Modoc Motors sign.


#302
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper, oil drill chart.


#301
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper, oil drill chart, spring.