Back From the Darkness of Covid and 2020

 At Last returning to Photography - 2021

Oh it isn't that I haven't been taking photos. I still did some sports photography of my daughters Clayton High School field hockey team this past year, 2020, but to be honest with you I have been locked at home like much of the rest of the world from COVID. So I have been working on some camera building projects, slowly building the darkroom gear and contemplating the whole digital verses analog camera and life divide. This morning instead of going on a cold outdoor bike ride, I decided instead to take photos. Today's images are posted from the Polar Vortex storm day we had here in St. Louis at the beginning of the week. I hope that you enjoy and are drawn to these images, and I hope that posting here will become a much more frequent and predictable process again. I also hope to "modernize" this blog and make it something of practical use and enjoyment. Hopefully, soon I will get vaccinated, and feel much more comfortable being out in the world of people....other then just cyclists in a pace line. 

A Winters Walk In Forest Park 

Images taken Monday, February 15, 2021. It was a cold walk to Forest Park. Temperature was hovering around 8F, the wind was blowing at between 15-22 MPH and the snow was flying. The wind chill was -16F. Normally I laugh at wind chill but that day it was a serious consideration. A harsh day for a walk and an even harsher day to be taking photos. The Nikon D4s had a hard time doing its job. By the end of my walk it had stopped focusing. 

St. Louis Art Museum West Entry

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Plug and Modernity

The Old Man Groans

At Peace

Miles to Go

The Family

Big Brother

The Dwarf

Interesting Photographers Work

Blog Site for Mikko Lagerstedt

So in my relentless searching to see what others have done and what they are currently doing I came across this site. This is a young photographer completely embracing the capabilities of digital with a great sensibility for composition and emotional connection. Enjoy!

Lunchtime In the Rain

Today's post includes  photos from Carondolet Park in South St. Louis and images from a classical public library in South St. Louis the Carondolet Branch of the St. Louis Public Library at 6800 Michigan Ave. Hope you enjoy. Please leave me comments if you like or dislike my work. I am working on slowing things down an making compositions. These images have had minimum post shoot processing. I willl adjust the contrast, crop, do some aligment. I have recently been removing the camera distortion much the way you might with a large format view camera that has shift and tile. I am planning on working with the Graflex Super Graphic that I have now very soon. I am interseted to see how I can manipulate selective focus with the view/press camera. Thanks!

Footbridge

Tall Pine

Footbridge and Ducks

Classical

Public Cornice Black and White

Public Cornice Color

Column Capital

Images from my archive

Today I have been looking at some older images and reworking them with minor edits in Photo Shop Elements.

Yosemite - The East Side

Purple Flower

Pink Flowers

Half Dome

Yosemite Valley - Looking from the other direction

Images from the Southwest

Spire in the Canyon

South Rim at Sunset  

Canyon Wall Color

Canyon Wall Black and White

Clouds at Sunset

Big Horn in Zion

Tree on a Hill- Bryce Canyon

Valley Floor- Bryce Canyon

North Rim of the Grand Canyon

North Rim - Through the Rocks

On the Edjge-Looking North

Blue Sky and Stripes

Toadstools as the Storm Approaches

It has been a while since I have posted. I have been traveling to the Desert Southwest. In particular to Kanab Utah to visit the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park. For this trip I rented a Nikon D800e and tonight I am posting my first images from the trip. The shear size of the sensor and the amount of detail in the images is amazing for a DSLR. I need to enlarge some images on our large format printer/plotter to see just what kind of image quality/size they are producing. Clearly reducing the images for publication online changes them somewhat but still this was an amazing camera compare to my normal cameras, the Nikon D200. I have many more images to edit and I will posting as I select them.