Thursday, July 09, 2009

urban foto

This series is from walking around downtown Columbus last week; starting and ending at Goodale Park. The glasses aren't mine, they were sitting on a rock near the pond at Goodale park.














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Monday, May 25, 2009

2009 Memorial Day Parade

These photographs are from Worthington, Ohio's 2009 Memorial Day Parade. I watched the parade with our Samoyed, Buddy. Buddy loves a parade and this one was no exception. He got petted by many new friends.

The photographs were made with a VISTAQUEST VQ 1005 toy digital camera. It cost under $20 and came attached to a keychain. It has a crude, inaccurate flip-up viewfinder and no display LCD to see or review pictures. The lens is tiny, soft, and produces images with saturated off-colors. The shutter operates on its own schedule - it can take several seconds to work, so there isn't precise control of "the decisive moment" on this camera. However, the keychain is substantial and works very nicely.

The VQ 1005 uses SD memory cards which is better than all other cheapo toy digital cameras I have seen. The others only use volatile flash memory, so when the AAA battery gives out (quickly and often) the images are permanently lost. I went through three AAAs during this parade, but I still have all the images because of the SD card feature.




Buddy barked along with the band's music





a patriotic 'vette


lots of 'vettes in this Memorial Day Parade...


one more 'vette








It was a warm day and Buddy was ready for a big drink of water afterwards.
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Friday, October 10, 2008

Fairfield Fair

two pictures from the 2008 Fairfield Fair:







and two from the way out of town:
























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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Fairfield Fair

These pictures were made at the 2007 Fairfield County Fair.

















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posted by arthur @ 10/28/2007 10:11:00 PM 1 comments

the attenuated leaf

I am interested in the attenuated leaf, and scale illusions.














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Monday, October 22, 2007

more recent fotos

Camera set to B/W (images composed in B/W).










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Friday, April 13, 2007

recent fotos










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Monday, March 05, 2007

what do you think?

I have been making landscape images by placing photographs side by side. The appearance of these images changes by the sequencing of the photographs. I think A is more coherent and easier to 'see' as a landscape than B. I find B intriguing, because it has a different kind of composition, more distant and less central than A.

I am interested in what others think about A and B. Do you prefer one over the other?

A:


B:



(images are from a landscape series made using a digital camera with malfunctioning sensor)

posted by arthur @ 3/05/2007 12:42:00 PM 1 comments