When do I post something like this? Commissions are Monday, but layout designs are Saturday - you can see what I decided. This latest design commission has channeled various childhood memories into an achievable small home space cameo project in N…Illustration by James Hilton, photos via Flickr as noted.The Layout Design Process helps steer my customer and shape their thinking. The result should be both achievable and personal - meaning something and capturing just enough of their story to feel…
After Hours, Los Tacos – New York, New York I saw a bustling lunchtime crowd here at Los Tacos today, but now, after hours, it’s all quiet as they’re doing the nightly cleanup. I didn’t eat there, and given that I live in Austin, Texas, I was dubious of what NYC can offer taco-wise. But you never know. Perhaps next time I’m in the Big Apple, I’ll give it a try. This grainy picture may look similar to the previous Camp Snap pictures, but it was taken with a different camera. The grainy effect…
A window in a building at the Chinati Foundation looks out on the Chihuahuan Desert in Marfa, Texas. The post Desert View appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
installation view, 2020-25, Tsurko Yamazaki, Shōhei Tomatsu, Jasper Johns, and Natsuyuki Nakanishi, at MoMA, photo: Jonathan Muzikar for MoMA From its acquisition in 2019 following the artist’s death until last year, Work, Tsuruko Yamazaki’s mesmerizing aniline dye on tin painting from 1957 was shown in a quietly bold installation about the moment of its creation. Beginning in 1955, Yamazaki, one of the original Gutai artists, showed startling works made of tin containers cast off by the…
Nyhavn Red Boat – Copenhagen, Denmark – Fujifilm GFX100RF – Avalon Ace I just spent an absurd amount of money on a new camera: the Fujifilm GFX100RF. I’m writing this article to myself as much as I’m writing this to you, because it is so easy to believe that new gear will have a larger impact on photographic outcomes than it likely will. New cameras with the latest tech and highest specs will have some impact on our photos for sure, but probably a very small one. The next camera purchase is…
ICEBOARD ROBIN BATMAN & ROBIN (KENNER) G’day and welcome to Friday. Here at the end of the week, it’s always important to note that the week is, in fact, ending, and we’ve all made it through another one. Yay us! Rather than just looking back on the week, of course, I like to be a bit more retrospective than that, and today, I’m returning to Robin! “Gotham City becomes a very cold place when Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Bane triple team to plot the icy demise of Batman and Robin. The…
I have been using a very specific ink for the past few years. The ink is Pen BBS #224 Leo Tolstoy which was released a few years ago never to be seen again. It’s a dark yellow-green that has low saturation but a dark enough ink for a fine Japanese nib. It’s not a bright grassy green but more of a brined olive color. I love this ink and keep a pen filled with it, all the time. Which means, there’s not much left. I have made an effort to find a replacement over the years so that I can continue to…
View fullsize View fullsize Robert Duxbury paints watercolours that refuse to behave like watercolours.The Melbourne-based painter works with brooding colour palettes and soft-edged figures that feel lifted from Pre-Raphaelite canvases, but the medium is watercolour on paper, pushed until it mimics the weight and depth of oil paint. The technique is deliberate collision: Chinese Gongbi discipline meeting European romanticism's emotional excess. View fullsize View fullsize Duxbury spent years…
Avoided highways as much as possible today.Currently Listening: Madonna “School”Reply via email
The sky has a real Highlander 2 vibe right now.
Pumpkins bring about poetic peace in my mind.Pumpkins talk to me.Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins. Pumpkins, polka dots, infinity nets—all of Kusama’s trademarks can be found in Pumpkin (1991) above. They are the result of her working through the vivid hallucinations she has been suffering from since childhood. Turning to nature, to her dot and lattice structures, to her multifaceted art in general is Kusama’s way of coping with stress and trauma, of which she’s been having no shortage: The horrors…
In case you missed it, this week’s Bastille Day parade was the largest in more than 20 years. With contingents from 35 countries (including Ukraine for the first time, some piloting second-hand Mirages overhead), it included 6,686 troops on foot, 98 aircraft, 315 motorized vehicles, and 193 horses of the Republican Guard parading down the Champs-Élysées. Enjoy!
I’ve been taking more film photos which I’ve just sent off to get developed and that’s cut into my photo Friday habit. So, today’s will be a bit more of a grab bag. A few Sony photos from our last days at Polis on Cyprus: Some with the Sigma DP2 Quattro: Some with the Ricoh GR3: Some with the Nikon D600: And, finally, some of my attempts to capture the smoke from the Canadian wildfires:
The last light of day on the Gastineau Channel, the body of water that separates Juneau and Douglas Island, Alaska. The post Gastineau Dusk appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
This is actually only one of two sketchbooks I filled during April and May. The other one has a lot more pages so may take a little longer to scan in. I then have two full sketchbooks for June and July so far, I’ve started another and it’s only just over half way through the month. I’m also working on a large collage piece but we’re now in school summer holidays so I’m not likely to finish that until September. This sketchbook was shared with the child. It made for some interesting…
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Photo: © Rob StephensonIf you're a photographer in NYC, you're a street photographer- unless you got a studio and shoot portraits. What's that... landscape? How many shots of the skyline can one possibly take? Obvious questions lead to obvious answers. And deciding what to shoot (and doing it well- the tricky part) is a problem that besets every photographer, especially in an era when anything and everything seems to have been done ad infinitum... But not everyone goes the usual route, assumes…
I drew this sketch a few weeks before the arrival of 3I/Atlas. I’ve tried to use Pulsomagic to predict its looking and here is the result. Let’s see.
For my birthday Earl bought me a new camera. It’s a Sony ZV-E10 II and it is very enjoyable. It is very capable in both the photographic and videography space; it came with the E 3.5-5.62/PZ 16-50 OSS II lens. My first photo was taken in low light. Truman was relaxing on the floor of the activity room, so he posed accordingly for the first click of the shutter. Mother Nature opted to keep her lightning and thunder to herself today, so while I chased some radar blips after picking up the camera,…
Grapes, Gum, Orange Blossom, BacchusI've done my best to ascertain why they named it "Silver Scent," and all I can come up with is it was created (not released—created—before you 'at' me) in 2005, the Jacques Bogart brand's 30th anniversary, or their "silver" anniversary. There's nothing silvery about the fragrance at all. If anything, it smells dark purple, because Silver Scent smells like
I went to another Cars and Coffee recently. I’ve been shooting my beloved Pentax ME preparing to write a fresh review of it — the one that exists dates to 2011! It’s aged off Google, and I’ve learned so much in the last 15 years that I can write a far better review of it now. It was a deeply overcast morning so I loaded a roll from my stash of Fujifilm Neopan 400, expired since 2014 and 2015 but always stored cold. I mounted my 50mm f/1.7 SMC Pentax-M lens. After shooting the whole roll at the…
Background I have been a sumo fan for more than 30 years. I attended the Las Vegas Koen in 2005 (where I met a young Hakuhō and Ama/Harumafuji wrestling in the lazy river of the Mandalay bay). I have participated in Konishiki’s Sumo and Sushi’s “Get in the Ring” event and pulled off a victory. … Continue reading The Peek Behind the Curtain (幕の内) Part I:
Perfume PosseWe’re back up! Sorry, folks — gremlins started a dumpster fire (that’s my technical explanation for why the site was down all day) and we had to spray Mitsouko on them until they gave up and went away. Go read Portia’s post! cover… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseWe’re back up!
Click here to book for tomorrow’s tour One house in Fournier St has wallpapers dating from 1690 until 1960. This oldest piece of wallpaper was already thirty years old when it was pasted onto the walls of the new house built by joiner William Taylor in 1721, providing evidence – as if it were ever needed – that people have always prized beautiful old things. John Nicolson, the current inhabitant of the house, keeps his treasured collection of wallpaper preserved between layers of tissue in…
Architectural detail of Downtown Dallas’ Sheraton Hotel, originally opened in 1959 as the Southland Center and converted to a hotel in 1998. The post Red Sheraton appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Camera: Fujifilm XT5Location: ///army.slick.blame Just as there is a natural beauty in the branching eucalypts, if you pay attention, there is also a concealed beauty in the patina of industrial concrete and the smooth metal sheen of industrial vents. At a fundamental level, the design of the natural world and the human constructs that populate it exist without duality; there is wisdom in the chlorophyll. There is wisdom in the solder. The only difference is in our inherent propensity for…
Where Kururin Paradise poured the scrappy look of the original Kuru Kuru Kururin into a sleeker, cheerier skin, Kururin Squash completely revamps the look and feel with lush 3D backgrounds and and a focus on gentler curves. The flat-shaded cartoon interludes of Paradise give way to a puppet show aesthetic, down to curtains that open on the title card and characters printed on cardboard with articulated, flapping arms. Their non-stop gesticulating combined with the movement of the backgrounds,…
For when you want to feel fancy but need to be practical, Esterbrook offers some of their prettiest materials in a ballpoint pen. The ultra-classy Nouveau Bleu material, an elegant acrylic in shades of blue with gold veins and flecks, comes with either gold or chrome trim. The pen has a faux cap, so that it looks like a posted pen, but the cap section is really a twist mechanism that deploys the tip from the nose cone. This cap-like end pulls off to reveal the cartridge. It takes a Parker style…
