Category: Photography

Do you know what I am not?

Answer: Methodical.

Between 1997 and early 2009 I shot hundreds of rolls of reversal (slide) film. My usual culprit is Fuji Velvia 50, a super-lush film that has been snarkily labeled “Disneychrome” by its detractors for its almost unbelievable saturation.

Now I have to scan every slide photo I ever took in a mad dash against time.

There are many, many ways to get dead here. The most obvious are gravity-assisted: sudden pits, false floors, collapsing beams. But there are also many serrated edges, rusty pointed pipes that reek of lockjaw and gangrene; ragged glass and naked edges of sheet metal. It is no wonder Baker County has stenciled DANGER PELIGRO on [...]

There is something like a coup in my insides, pouncing only when unexpected and I have blearily wiped it from my recollection; only when I am blithe and reporting “I feel fine now, it’s gone now” does everything in my geographical center suddenly grind to a halt and then there is squeezing almost like my [...]

Millican Valley Sunset and Fog Redux Originally uploaded by lyzadanger Alive? Me? Yes. Apparently folks have not found it as easy as I’d like it to find where it is that I stick my photographs. They come, naturally, to my Web site and there are dead-ended. The answer: Flickr. The URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza Here is a [...]

Briefly. I don’t generally enter contests, nor do I generally push my aesthetic or editorial agenda, but I found the Name Your Dream Assignment idea impossible to ignore. Essentially you envision your dream photographic assignment, explain it, and if you win they give you $50,000 to make it real. I have had this idea kicking [...]

There is a space, easily accessible to me from where I work, that I like because it’s spooky and full of potential. It’s technically available to be built out into someone’s bizarre and wonderful workspace, but I don’t want to say exactly where it is because then you’ll steal it and my own dream of [...]

Calmer life ahead, like being able to stop and enjoy quiet things like these photos:

The tubes are giving me a walloping so I do not have the stamina to correct all of the photographs I shot this weekend, traveling in (frigid) Central Oregon. But here is a sneak preview: p.s. This is a two-shot composite: first shot exposed for sky, second for foreground. Digital imitation of graduated neutral density [...]

This is what ISO 25600 looks like. No, that’s not a typo. Consider my mind blown.

After some reservation, I think I’m ready to commit to some sort of daily photograph regime. After all, I just sunk about a year’s discretionary income into a piece of camera gear. Sure, I’m not doing anything new here; I’m not breaking new ground. Every bellybutton-gazer or aspirant photographer has pulled this trick. It’s predictable [...]