24 January 2008

Color restorations, continued

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A friend suggested that I consider just making these old slides black & white instead of trying to restore the color to an original I ca...
18 January 2008

Color restorations

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Just wanted to show you the before and after on the color corrections for one of the slides I've been restoring. Here it is after I'...
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17 January 2008

Scanning and restoring old slides

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I have a big project I've been working on in dribs and drabs, and that's to scan a whole heap of slides that my grandfather took bac...
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16 January 2008

Candle in the Night

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I'm always mesmerized by candle flames. I shot this with my Canon G9. If you stare at the dark space between the wax and the flame, wher...
10 January 2008

Singing off the same hymn sheet

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That's what they say in the UK when people are what we in North America would call "on the same page" (or "wavelength...
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17 December 2007

Merry Christmas

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I took a walk at night with my Canon G9 and got some interesting photos of Christmas lights, etc. I'm not thrilled with the image qualit...
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07 December 2007

Narrative Photography

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Update: fixed the link for Jeff Wall's Mimic , so if you read this already but couldn't see the photo, try now. I've just signed...
03 December 2007

Rusty spokes

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Rusty old car wheels in front of the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Hood River, Oregon. I did some burning in Photosh...
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29 November 2007

New Toy: Epson P-5000 Multimedia Storage Viewer

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Sorry for the sparsity of posts lately. I've been trying to get an article finished which is overdue. I didn't think I'd ever us...
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17 November 2007

[Italy trip] Prayer

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Old monk praying during the Vesper service at San Miniato al Monte, in Florence.
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04 November 2007

[Italy trip] Rose in the garden of Villa Agape, Florence

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20 October 2007

[Italy trip] Conventional conventical technology

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I liked this wooden cart which I saw on the grounds of Villa Agape where we stayed in Florence, which is run by the Sisters of "Stabili...
13 October 2007

Destroying restored art vs. restoring destroyed art

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More reflections from my art tour of Florence. This 14th or 15th century fresco in San Miniato al Monte (Florence) looks like it has probabl...
11 October 2007

The golden lampstand

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[News flash: This photo of mine has been published online in Comment Magazine. Click here .] "Aaron is responsible for keeping the lam...
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05 October 2007

Where is the frame of this picture?

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Frame-within-a-frame is a motif that shows up in all kinds of art, from René Magritte to Norman Rockwell to Alfred Hitchcock's films ...
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04 October 2007

Portraits of children

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Yeah, I know this photo isn't exactly about the culture of Italy, but I did take it while I was over there. My little Italian cousins ha...
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27 September 2007

Back from Italy

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I have over 1600 photos to sort through to select the best ones to show, and that's going to take some time, but here's a start. Thi...
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23 August 2007

Italy bound!

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Sorry once again for the long hiatus, but it's for good reason. I've been on vacation in Vermont with my family, and getting ready f...
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04 August 2007

My dog is a star!

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This photo I took of my dog Cricket in the pool with canine water therapist Cindy Horsfall of La Paw Spa has become Cindy's brochure co...
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27 July 2007

Candles and the Idea of the Holy

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There's a sense of the sacred in this photo, even though I personally don't find connection with the Almighty through lighting candl...
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