etc.

I'll be matting and packaging all day and then I should be caught up. After that a couple of choices:

a) go out and force myself to shoot

b) watch the DVD of I Robot which I swiped from my sister's house yesterday and plan to return without her knowing (I need a caper once in a while)

c) Go back to - or start - workin' on the freakin' book which I've been too busy to deal with

d) None of the above. (This last choice has the most appeal for me. It involves a reclined position where I stare blankly at the ceiling fan trying to calculate how many times per minute it revolves before falling into a deep sleep.)

This entry is tagged as "blog drool."

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Dave Gets Banned

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Now that was exciting because I've never actually been kicked out of a group before. This is just a virtual group - so I guess it's not the same as being kicked out of a real group. But still --

So what did I do to the Flickr group? Did I say something wrong or something? (Tom Waits) The group is private and although there is a link to ask the administrator for an explanation when I click on it I'm told that I don't have rights to view the group or find out the rules of the group. Since it is a PRIVATE GROUP I can't even find it. So how did I get into the group in the first place - someone invited me. (Guess that was a mistake).

Since I haven't posted anything to the group in about two weeks - I can't imagine what I did to deserve being banished - but I have to say - it's a great feeling. Rebel without a cause and all that. If you haven't been banned from a group - you don't know what you're missing. In fact - it was so exhilirating that I may join up with more groups just so that I can enjoy the feeling of being kicked out.

Homage

Okay photogs - what photographer was I (emulating, ripping off, copying, doing an homage to).

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The answer - maybe - is that you are all winners and that I'm the mixed up one. Andreas Feininger did a famous shot (seen here) of a person with the camera aligned to give a robotic look. One day, after my eyes were examined, I asked my optometrist if he'd mind sitting behind the eye gizmo for me. And that's what you see here.

At the time I was thinking of a Feininger shot the way I remembered it. But I could have sworn that his shot was also of an optometrist. Now that I go back through Feiningers images I see that I may have transfigured his camera shot into the optometrist shot. Or maybe there is an optometrist shot by Feininger but I can't find it anywhere.

So possibly this is an "inspired by" shot that has some originality of it's own (unless I'm still wrong and Feininger actually did an optometrist shot somewhere). At any rate, that let's you off the hook because according to contest rules if I myself can't even be sure - then certainly you, the contest winner are no longer eligible to buy me Leica lenses.

"No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics." -Andreas Feininger

"A technically perfect photograph can be the world’s most boring picture." -Andreas Feininger

Metropolitan Museum 5

[From a nice big juicy MF TLR Plus-X neg.]

42nd Street, 1995

Well at least in this shot I can definitely say it was 1995. I'm not sure if you can still walk on the Pershing overpass these days with a tripod without being swarmed on by security. Even back then it was a little iffy as there is a very narrow curb and the cars are zipping around behind you. I remember one leg of the tripod had to be stuck through the railing.

Dog Lit By Welding, 2005

Sprinkler on 6th

Somewhere on 6th Avenue near entrance to Central Park. Seems like a good one to post today since it is sweltering in NYC. 2003

The Bicycle Lesson

Mother Goose

Willis Avenue

When you cross the Willis Avenue Bridge into the Bronx, this is the first building you see.

P.S. Let me know if this is too big (800 px wide).

Hanover Plaza

This is one of those shots where reflections got the better of me. I'm not even sure what's going on. Some parts of this are the building - straight on - and the rest is the Stone Street Tavern behind me. But looking at the negative it gets very confusing as to what is where.



What's confusing is that bits and pieces around the door on the right are not reversed.