Telephone Pole With Clouds

This is a recent scan of a photo I took a few years ago in Richmond. My earliest photos were often of telephone poles and clouds, but on the prairies.

The PNE

Many years ago, before I went digital, my son Mike played soccer and I usually took him to his games. One year, in early spring, he played a game on historic Empire field. This was after the football stadium had been taken down. Empire field is located beside the PNE grounds where Vancouver's annual late summer carnival takes place. While I was waiting for the game to start I took my camera up to the PNE grounds and, to my happy surprise, there was an open gate. I wandered around the abandoned carnival grounds and finished the roll of black and white that was in the camera. It was kind of magical. I had no idea then what I would do with them, if anything, in the future. I have just finished scanning the negatives and here are a few. I tinted some but left B&W versions of them as well.

Autumn Forest

The tree-line, like the shore-line, is an invitation ... or maybe a dare.

Cy Harrod 1920 - 2011

"And the days fall

finite as leaves from a tree

each curling into itself

like a body

around a pain"

From "In This Room: II"

Masts & Clouds & istock photo

I enjoy the occasional, accidental harmony that you find when looking through a lens. And here is a link to something funny I got from the latest istock photo e-mail. The political stuff about protecting the internet is important and "Everything Is A Remix", just below it (it is the 3rd article if you scroll down), is very cool.

Walking Down Magritte Street

It's like comparing apples to ...

I Love well illustrated books. Chris van Allsburg is perhaps my favorite. I'm sure his influence has crept into some of my photos.

Monochrome Autumn II & Ken Merfeld

And a link to someone else I found on Art Knowledge News.