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  • Alley, Bible, and Weed



    I’m basically a ghost which has learned to post to the internet.

    So, no surprise, I was haunting my usual route, down through the twisty alleys of Charlottesville, underneath the warmly lit windows. Rounding the corner, I came across what appeared to be the “Good [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 9:33pm EDT

  • The Chicago Arts Ensemble at Cabell Hall


    The Arts Ensemble of Chicago played Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia many years ago. Malachi Favors, the bassist pictured here, passed away in 2004. I’ve seen many unusual acts at Cabell Hall. UVA’s music department has booked many great players [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 3:36pm EDT

  • Saigon Cafe-Hot Tea


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    Our favorite Vietnamese Restaurant in Charlottesville, Saigon Cafe, with the required drink in hand, hot tea.
    This is an example of how a completely unsharp image can still convey a mood. The lack of detail somehow [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 7:54pm EDT

  • The Clock Shop - Charlottesville - Time Passing



    This was taken through the window of The Clock Shop of Virginia (closed on Saturdays), caddy corner to where the Charlottesville City Market is held. The shop has been here as long as I have lived here. The display case is like a small [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 8:50pm EDT

  • Chair, Guitar, Woods



    When I first moved to Charlottesville, I lived in a rental by the edge of thick woods, just off of Route 29, south. I had a few old chairs bought at an antique store and I would bring them out to the jungle and play [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 7:53pm EDT

  • End of the Internet



    I got lost behind the failed Landmark Hotel project and came to the dead end of the Internet. Well, the MapQuest part anyway. Does this mean the Google has finally taken over the known universe?


    Since the Landmark Hotel is unfinished and [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 9:38pm EDT

  • Postcard from Prison

    The Postcard from Hell?





    I’ve been buying old postcards for years in various “antique” shops. There is one shop in particular, that picks up goods from estate sales, that frequently has old postcards that are unused. I then use [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 4:34pm EDT

  • High Tension


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    This is a night photograph of the bottom of the high-tension tower that’s not nearly far enough from my house on Locust Ave. It s a shame there was nothing in the photo that gives the scale of [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 9:47pm EDT

  • Event at the Bridge Progressive Art Initiative


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    This is a photograph of a very small garage on North 1st street in Charlottesville. I had just come back from taking a few photos near the McGuffey Art Center, and noticed that this space was hosting an [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 4:59pm EDT

  • West Main Street - Garage



    Almost everyone in Charlottesville refers to the City as composed of different parts. I suppose this is typical of most places, and, in the case of Charlottesville, the parts have changed over the years. When I first moved here the “Corner” (the [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 9:44pm EDT

  • Unseen Corner, Rt. 12, Avon, N. C.


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    Much of our current environment becomes invisible to us over time. Like a virus that we’ve built up immunity to, we simply don’t “bother” seeing it anymore. This can lead to some odd decisions in infrastructure placement [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2009, 11:07am EDT

  • Charlottesville Mall - Photographs and Fantasies



    For a set of more Mall night shots, click here.

    A doorway on Second Street, off the Downtown Mall. It may appear to be the utility entrance to a cineplex, but there is evidence that other forces and laws are in effect. [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 11:32am EDT

  • Walk up Brown's Mountain, Charlottesville, Va.


    We were doing our walk up Brown’s Mountain, although this time we were walking without talking. It became much easier to get immersed in the sound environment, and I began to listen with enough intent to quiet my thinking to some degree.

    We came [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 10:40pm EDT

  • Gone but back now . . . .



    Well, I'm an infrequent blogger, which is supposed to be the kiss-o-death for click-throughs, traffic, etc. Eventually nobody reads your blog and soon you dry up and blow away in the next stiff wind.
    In any event, if "you" happen to be still' [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 7:56pm EDT

  • Unseen Ventilator - Omni Hotel Charlottesville


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    In keeping with my observations of selective vision, I have a photograph of the massive air conditioner that feeds the Omni Hotel. It’s on a street that forks right where the Vinegar Hill Theatre is. It now [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 4:01pm EDT

  • Asylum Street Spankers in C-Ville Again



    The Asylum Street Spankers played at Charlottesville's Outback Lodge last week. This is one of my favorite music acts, which specializes in a mix of older songs which lean toward the obscene/naughty, and plenty of their own songs' [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2009, 12:38pm EDT

  • Jack in the Pulpit


    Our backyard is full of Jack in the pulpit plants, or Arisaema Triphyllum. Almost all of them produced the trademark flowers simultaneously. I find them somewhat creepy, so I’m not inclined to celebrate the flowering.

    I thought it might be [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2009, 9:17pm EDT

  • Live Oak


    This is a dirt driveway through the live oaks, at the end of a paved road on the Sound side of Avon, N.C. I had been wandering on the paved road, which has some very old graveyards on it, when I saw the dirt road snaking [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 7:47pm EDT

  • Charlottesville Mall and the Landmark Hotel


    There it is, a tall reminder of the project "in negotiation," due to what usually happens when the bank account goes south for the winter.

    While I was setting up to take the picture, I had to explain all this to some curious [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2009, 7:39am EDT

  • Easter


    Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall

    ' [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 8:50am EDT

  • Chalottesville Downtown Mall Story



    The "bag lady" and the other silhouettes on the Charlottesville Mall have stayed put during the recent re-bricking. Things look pretty grim in the above photo, but today it was sunny, warm, and the City had paid a good jazz band to [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 9:00pm EDT

  • Fred Frith and Evelyn Glennie


    Last year Fred Frith and Evelyn Glennie were resident artists for the UVA Music Department. I missed the concert they did together, but caught Mr. Frith and the UVA Music Students in their concert.

    That was a [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 4:14pm EDT

  • Bending a Note

    You’re going to find below a series of photographs that are called “Bending a Note.” The important fact about these photographs is that they were taken on film, with no assistance or post processing via software. They were taken before such software was available.

    [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 3:32pm EDT

  • La Taza Coffee House, Belmont, Charlottesville


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    This was taken from the front of Fitzgerald Tire’s towards “downtown Belmont, in Charlottesville. A car drove through during the time exposure, and the headlights left a streak of light leading from downtown Belmont past the [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 7:20pm EST

  • Fitzgerald Tire - Belmont ( Black and White )


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    This is in what seems like a town center in downtown Belmont. The house that was the original Belmont Mansion is on the hill behind this location (right behind the church). Fitzgerald Tire's building has that look of late' [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 8:48pm EST

  • The Big Guy at Eloise


    It’s been years since Eloise had this buff dude doing their security. I had forgotten I’d taken this until I happened to read an article about the shop in one of the Charlottesville weekly magazines. [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 8:56pm EST

  • Another Light Painted Still Life



    This is another painted-with-light time exposure still life, similar to the one in the post preceding this.

    Where this one is a bit different; the lighting of the subject added some “features” to the left side of the picture. First, [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 4:09pm EST

  • Painting with Light, Still Life of Foxglove


    The above image was “painted with light,” although perhaps that is a bit of an overstatement. Here’s how it is done.

    The camera is set on a tripod; the subject (the still life setup above) is in darkness, or near darkness. The shutter [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 7:01pm EST

  • Night Photographs on Postcards

    What I’ve always liked about night photography are the results. The stark lighting isolates shapes as does the dark sky. Shapes are simplified and dramatic. Even without a camera, I like wandering at night.
    I’ve collected a few postcards of night scenes over the years. For some time [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 3:47pm EST

  • Window, West Main, Charlottesville


    West Main, Charlottesville

    Towns and cities tend to be named and thought of as a conglomeration of different areas. So it is for C-Ville. There is the University Area (or “The Corner”), the Downtown, 29 North, Barracks Road. West Main is Main Street [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 8:35pm EST

  • Charlottesville, music venues over the years



    Before the Downtown Mall became the magnetic center of Charlottesville, there were spots in and around the “corner” that drew people. Many of the music venues of years ago were either on West Main close to the Corner, or on [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 11:41am EST

  • Eye of the Beholder


    Stand close to a mirror and look yourself in the eye. You're looking out through the pupil of your eye. This is a basic assumption. The eye in the mirror's pupil is a black hole. I suggest staying with this meditation for some time.
    [...]
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    Posted: December 21, 2008, 9:15pm EST

  • Bank of America, Cash Window (no more)


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    This is the Bank of America cash window on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. It motors on, a reminder of the institutions we trusted.
    The decimated little tree, which was a feature of this [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2008, 4:07pm EST

  • Broken Hearts and Bicycle Parts


    As I mentioned in an earlier post, I spent seven years in a fairly strict Catholic school in New York. As a result, I’m hard wired for church imagery. Out-turned palms with wounds, hearts pierced with thorns, it’s all burnt into the neurons.
    So, [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 5:15pm EST

  • Just a box sitting in the sun


    I turned around from the computer and saw this box, sitting in the sun filtered through the blinds. I can’t say that I know why, but I took a photograph. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 5:01pm EST

  • Photo above ...


    Photo above by Billy Hunt

    If you live in or near Charlottesville and are interested in photography, you should try to catch Charlottesville Photo Night. To find out more about it, and when the next event is, check their web site at [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2008, 7:29pm EST

  • West Main Doorway, Charlottesville


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    Photo of a doorway on West Main. The leaves build up every year, the light burns on constantly, people pass to and fro to restaurants, night spots, sort of blowing up and down the [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2008, 8:34pm EST

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    U.Va. Heating Plant, Click for larger image
    Please click on the image above, so you can "get the picture"

    These surreal structures are just a short walk from the "Corner" in Charlottesville, and also a short sprint from the Rotunda at U.Va. People who [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 1:58pm EST

  • Body and Soul Salon - Charlottesville


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    Using the “wayback” machine, this is the same beauty salon as in the prior post, but before the restoration of the Paramount. I remember initially being interested in taking this because of the contrast of the beauty [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2008, 8:05pm EDT

  • Stranger Than Science


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    What are these people doing. Any guesses? [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 6:51pm EDT

  • Saigon Cafe Still Life


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    We've been eating at the Saigon Cafe since the beginning of time. Vietnamese dishes, Chinese also, all the "hot tea" you can drink.' [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2008, 10:21pm EDT

  • Night Photograph - Behind the Paroumount Theatre


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    I made some images recently using the Rapid 100 6X7 Cm camera, a vintage item from the 1950’s. It has some wonderful features. The pressure [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2008, 5:05pm EDT

  • The Art Police


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    Once again, who knows what this is, or why someone took the photo. It is another mystery, even though I committed the crime.

    I was challenged by an art critic “on scene,” as a matter of [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 5:36pm EDT

  • Election Excitement Runs High (Not)


    Taken on an early morning on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall.
    Well, it looks like the “mall” CVS is also not able to summon much excitement in regards to politics, either. This was their window display on a recent Saturday.

    I’ve [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2008, 9:45pm EDT

  • Jill Bolte Taylor and "My Stroke of Insight"


    I had my first session in a university class entitled “consciousness” recently. I figured I needed some help in this area.

    A classmate mentioned the experience of Jill Bolte Taylor. She is a neuroanatomist. She experienced a stroke in the left [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2008, 9:21am EDT

  • Fitzgerald Tire - Downtown Belmont - Charlottesville


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    Fitzgerald Tire, Belmont

    Do I love Fitzgerald Tire? Well, I’ve never had my tires changed there, but I like the building. It’s at the crossroads of beautiful downtown Belmont, which may have [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2008, 10:12pm EDT

  • Hell is Real



    A few weeks back we were working our way upstream on a typical Friday at the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. Upstream is toward the Pavilion, at least when the beer concessions shut down.

    We came upon a hellfire and damnation event in [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2008, 8:44pm EDT

  • Shed, Lightning, 1113 E. Jefferson, Charlottesville


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    This was a time exposure during a lightning storm. It was taken through the rear window of my apartment on East Jefferson Street, Charlottesville. There was a very strong lightning storm going on during the exposure. This [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2008, 10:09pm EDT

  • Drive by Movie

    I’ve been taking time exposures from a moving car for some time. Many can be found somewhere or other in this blog’s history. The more recent additions to what I’ve tended to call “The Car Series,” (just because it makes it sound important or something) have been in color. The [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2008, 7:35pm EDT

  • Work



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    Work

    Ever notice how some of the really big concepts have short words assigned to them; life, death, love, sex, cash, fun, God, tax. And so there’s work. This is my work photograph.
    [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2008, 10:17pm EDT

  • A Man Outstanding in His Woods



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    Ok, so it is another self portrait . . .

    And it is also a perfect example of what happens when you tilt the lens on a 4X5 view camera, while leaving [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2008, 7:30pm EDT

  • Further Musings from the Woods



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    As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’d escape into the woods behind our rental just south of Charlottesville, where I would read, play guitar, or just sit there. [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2008, 9:34pm EDT

  • Outer Banks, Time Exposure of Shells



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    OBX Shells

    The cottage we stay at Avon, on the North Carolina Outer Banks, is obviously a popular rental for parents of young children. We found these shells and other found items from [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2008, 9:39pm EDT

  • Robert Frank, Ruth Orkin, Young Photographers Award - Life Magazine

    I’m a bit of a “collector” of old Life Magazines. Collector is in quotes because I don’t collect them in the usual sense. I buy ones covering interesting time periods, or ones that have unusual photographs. The way in which events are described and photographed are often as telling as [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2008, 7:17pm EDT

  • Board Walk, The Outer Banks of North Carolina


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    This is another photograph in which the image was formed during a time exposure by “painting” light with a flashlight. It was taken on wooden walks constructed as a path through the dunes, in the Outer Banks.
    [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2008, 9:56pm EDT

  • Active Memorial Displays - Grave in Avon North Carolina



    You really need to see the detail in the image to understand it. Please click on the image above to see it larger.

    There seems to be some signs of a change in the way we are inclined to memorialize the [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2008, 5:59pm EDT

  • Mary Ellen Mark, Paramount Theatre, Charlottesville

    Last night I attended Mary Ellen Mark’s presentation. Martin Bell Alex Chadwick served as interviewer and commentator and work was shown that spanned her earliest to her latest work. The images were projected on the Paramount’s projection system, and the results were good. As with any projected image, the range [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2008, 12:42pm EDT

  • Hat in Sand - The Outer Banks, North Carolina


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    I’ve been visiting the Outer Banks, and I notice as soon as I start walking down the beach, I end up looking at the sand passing below my feet. I’m not the only one either, as [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2008, 9:45pm EDT

  • Portrait of MJ


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    This is a portrait of Mary Jane taken using a flashlight and the 4X5 camera with a sheet of Tri-X Pan film. The neighbor’s cat had followed MJ in and snoozed out on her lap.

    [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2008, 7:12pm EDT

  • Shack One Still Life


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    I’ve spoken before about photographs taken in a few rentals that I’ve called Shack One and Shack Two. Shack One was located on Route 29 South of Charlottesville. These other Shack Photos include the Marimba, the [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2008, 9:25pm EDT

  • Appalachian Trail Marker - Painted with Light


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    The National Park Service had a photography contest a few years ago. I decided to enter using a black and white image that was taken at night. I thought of the traditional Appalachian Trail “blaze” as a universally [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 10:03pm EDT

  • Charlottesville Mall Demonstration


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    There was a demonstration during Fridays at Five this last week, on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. It was to bring attention to the number of people dieing in the Arizona desert while attempting to get into the U. [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2008, 9:25pm EDT

  • The Gibson J-50 and the First Story of Three


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    A life study of a poorly treated guitar

    What this guitar was forced to endure, and how it failed to escape me, is quite a story.

    That it was trying [...]
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    Posted: April 11, 2008, 11:10pm EDT

  • Mary Jane in her living room


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    Mary Jane has always been an excellent “guerilla” interior decorator. She knew the location of almost every “antique” (junk?) store in Central Virginia, she also had a talent for finding 40’s and 50’s art deco, and [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2008, 5:02pm EDT

  • Big Camera


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    I had worked in this space for some time when the picture was taken. One of my jobs was copying absurdly large originals (drawings, paintings, architectural renderings, etc.), which were hung on a moving glass copy board. [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2008, 9:55pm EDT

  • The Chair Series - Lawn Chair


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    The is another image from the Chair Series, this time a lawn chair.
    It was summer on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, not far from Chestertown. This spot was surrounded by miles of feed corn. Feed [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2008, 10:06pm EST

  • Folding Steel Office Chair


    Photograph – Folding Steel Office Chair

    The uncomfortable folding chair, circa mid-80’s, pictured above, is a wonderful symbol for what work can be. It is functional, you can sit in it, but if you did eight hours a day, you’d end up at the [...]
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    Posted: February 21, 2008, 6:45pm EST

  • The Office Chair



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    An empty chair defines a negative space that should be occupied by a person. You could sit there. This is an office chair. You could end up sitting in [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2008, 6:05pm EST

  • A Heater Epiphany



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    I was looking through some envelopes that contained prints from my days of working as a news photographer, when out popped a 4”X5” Transparency, the one shown above.

    [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2008, 8:38pm EST

  • Cumberland Island


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    Cumberland Island (an island off the southern coast of Georgia) is a remarkable place. This is the path near the National Park camp ground. These live oaks are just inside the dunes, [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2008, 8:59pm EST

  • The Shack One Marimba


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    Shack One Wall

    The Shack network was purely conceptual; it consisted of Johnny V’s place and MJ’s place, Shack One and Shack Two. I photographed some rooms and walls in both. Both were decorated from “antique” [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2008, 8:43pm EST

  • Shop Window (Lost her head)



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    I happened across this window being worked on when walking home from the Charlottesville City Market . The colors and the fate of the little be-headed lady caught my eye. Nauseating [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2008, 9:39pm EST

  • Phoning Home



    This is from and old 4X5 transparency I shot, many years back, as you can tell from the telephone booth. It probably looks like an outtake from the “Matrix.” The blurred figure is actually a person plus a dog. As usual with most of [...]
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    Posted: December 27, 2007, 2:17pm EST

  • Light Painted Flowers


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    This is an example of a time exposure where the image has been made by “painting” with light. Painting may be an overstatement. I use whatever small flashlight I can find, and mute the output from it [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2007, 7:51pm EST

  • Marcia and Nancy - Chestertown, Md.


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    If you take photographs long enough, you end up with a past that is well documented. As you can imagine, this is a mixed blessing. Going through the thousands of negatives I have can be like re-living an experience. [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2007, 8:55am EST

  • Walls - Avon, North Carolina


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    Frankly, the subject of this photo is a bit of a mystery.
    This is a set of walls in a sandy lot next to the Food Lion market in Avon N.C. These [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2007, 8:21pm EST

  • House at Second and Water


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    There used to be an unusual structure at the corner of Second and Water, across from the Charlottesville City Market. It was a monolithic combination of a house and two [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2007, 6:59pm EST

  • The Really Big Weed


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    Really Big Weed

    I can’t identify these huge weeds, able to crack concrete and grow in the most inhospitable of places. I come across these in my nightly wanderings. They sometimes grow to an amazing [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2007, 1:04am EST

  • McGuffey Art Center - Charlottesville


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    I snapped this while walking around after a snow storm. It was taken on the Pluabel Pro Shift, hand held. The film is Tri-X 120, 6X9 cm. image.

    I ended up liking the image, [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2007, 9:13pm EST

  • Flat Iron Building, Asheville, N.C.


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    Above is a photo of a square in Asheville, N. C., with the Flat Iron building on the right (6X9 cm, Tri-X). The sculpture, center left, is an upturned Flat Iron. At the time I took the [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2007, 8:26pm EST

  • The Virginia Film Festival and the Klughe-Ruhe Sponsored Films

    I usually stick to photographic discussions here, but I’m going to wander in a different direction with this post.

    I attended the Virginia Film Festival this year. A great feature of the Festival is the discussion that follows the films. This year, one such discussion brought to [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2007, 9:10am EST

  • House on Locust Avenue - Charlottesville


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    Here’s a night photo of a house, the core part of which was built around 1910 on Locust Ave. May souls have passed through here, and I have known a few of them.

    Night [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2007, 9:55pm EDT

  • Parking on Water Street (Shoots, Eats, and Leaves)


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    Well, you?ve probably heard of the book, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. It?s about punctuation, but that?s a somewhat unfair short explanation. When it comes to photography, the order that I do it in is; Shoots, [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2007, 8:59pm EDT

  • Car Series - Profile



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    This is another image from a drive through of the Barracks Road Shopping Center in Charlottesville. Based on the prior exposure (see last shot in the blog) I juggled the aperture versus time [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2007, 9:36pm EDT

  • The Car Series - Hit It!


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    This photo was taken last weekend, and involved fishing around for the best exposure. I had settled for F-16 for the aperture, but had been getting images that were a bit washed out, with not much color [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2007, 10:45pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Objects in mirror are closer than they appear

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    This is the most recent of the Car Series, taken by driving slowly through a shopping center off Route 29 in Charlottesville. In this case the camera is in the image area via the reflection in the mirror, [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2007, 8:39pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • "Drive On," a Found Negative from the Car Series


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    This is one of the Car Series that I havent shown before. I came across it while looking through my piles of negatives. Its about the same setup (4X5, 90 mm Super Angulon {save [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2007, 9:04pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • UFO


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    This was a time exposure with a 4X5 Graphic duct-taped (with a backup safety strap) to the hood of the car. About 5 minutes of exposure driving around a small well lit city, Charlottesville. People who pulled [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2007, 8:56pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • The Public Sale


    This is an odd shot (click the picture for a larger image). The child seems to be staring back at the viewer, as though the photo frame itself was a window. Windows work two ways, you can look out or in. Photos are generally one [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2007, 3:55pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Another Saturday Night

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    “Another Saturday Night”


    It’s funny how the “present moment” asserts itself in spite of our efforts to live beyond it. It is difficult to find when you need it. For instance, if you’re angry all you get is that voice-in-the-head firing off accusations, [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2007, 8:50pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • The Target

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    These targets showed up on a wall of the Paramount Theater (prior to its renovation) and a few other spots in Charlottesville, about 6 years ago. They are the standard targets used in the training of police officers, government [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2007, 9:37pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Montreal Museum mentioned in Boing Boing

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    Boing Boing just published an web article (by Xeni Jarden) on a Museum in Montreal dedicated to a family of “short stature.” The permalink is here; [www.boingboing.net]
    I visited there about 20 years ago, while staying with friends in Montreal. The picture above [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2007, 9:11am EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Newest of the Car Series


    Here’s the most recent of the Car Series. Clicking will bring up a larger view. Here’s the earlier post on the thoughts behind it.

    You are separated in this chamber of glass and steel, in a blanket of sounds from the [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2007, 9:20pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Meditation on Desire and Its Elusive Object


    My Documents/My Pictures/My Head

    Something else

    I woke at 4 a.m. and started musing on what to do next. And then this thought appeared. The thought was; I’ve always been looking for “something else.” Whatever the situation, with self or circumstance, I always [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2007, 11:09pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • 35 mm Double Exposure Film Strip







    I took this set of photos using an unusual method. It was taken on TRI-X 35 mm film of friends [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2007, 10:34pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Shentai at the Frank IX Building - Charlottesville

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    Shentai - The Kindled Flame
    Fire Dancer
    The Unwelcome Overture

    I caught “Shentai” last week, at the exquisite, nearly open-air venue called Frank IX. This was my first experience with the sort of fringe festival [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2007, 11:01pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Car - Rain


    NOTES ON THE CAR SERIES

    We don’t tend to picture ourselves in the actual environment we’re in. Instead, we think of ourselves in a more ideal setting, perhaps our porch, living room, perhaps hiking our favorite trail. However, if we live where the [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2007, 9:12pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Under the Belmont Bridge - Charlottesville


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    "Belmont Bridge"

    This is a photograph of the underside of the Belmont Bridge, before the railroad moved to block access. Now it's fenced. That turf in view on the other side of the tracks has [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2007, 10:24pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Painting with Light – Outer Banks

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    The cottage I rent in the Outer Banks is one of the oldest cottages in the area. It won’t be there for long. It’s on an ocean front lot and the owner passed away [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2007, 4:35pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy

  • Death and Travel


    I’m passing through the Outer Banks this week and staying in the same town as the “OBX Graveyard” post of a short while ago. I rode a bicycle by the site and found it set up and carefully tended to, as before.
    If [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2007, 8:16pm EDT
    by Ed Deasy
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