What would you do with some 3D-graph paper, black Indian Ink, and a Johnson&Johnson cotton bud?
I did this…
…and this…
…and this
What would you do with some 3D-graph paper, black Indian Ink, and a Johnson&Johnson cotton bud?
I did this…
…and this…
…and this
No, I didn’t go to the woods… but some body else (*) did. I just found this scene while walking from office to car whilst at the Engineering Campus in Durham.
(*) “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” (Thoreau)
The image is available for sale on iStockphoto too.
P.S.: I have added a gallery dedicated to images shot in the woods.
Fotografi per soldi, ovvero professionisti, ovvero a fini di lucro. Qualcuno potrebbe pensare che la differenza con un amatore sta nella qualita` delle foto, o magari in quella dell’attrezzatura.
Balle!
La differenza piu` grande sta nel soggetto. Un bel paesaggio, un tramonto, una foresta, sono soggetti desiderati sia dall’amatore sia dal professionista: il primo guardera` con orgoglio la foto scattata, il secondo la vendera` caramente a chi vuole guardare (senza orgoglio) una foto scattata.
Altri soggetti, invece, sonoesclusivi del professionista, e gridano chiaramente”prostituzione!” a chi guarda. Questi soggetti hanno senso solo se vengono comprati e, di solito, ri-finiti da un disegnatore grafico. Sono soggetti fatti per soldi e per niente altro, incompleti, inesatti, in fieri.
Ieri ho fotografato uno di questi soggetti. Spero possa finire nelle abili mani di un abile disegnatore, avido di aggiungere il suo messaggio originale nello spazio bianco del biglietto…
Un altra immagine con Mr Nasty si trova su iStock.
…a “listed building” but, more importantly, is a very, very cold place… when it’s cold.
Photographically, the Priory is the first time I combined my “new” Minolta Spotmeter with my Bronica. B&W or colour, that day I had 400 ASA film that did not prevent the camera shaking due to photographer’s shaking due to the freezing cold weather.

…and be an illusion, but I do.
Obviously Shakespeare was not a stock photographer. Certainly he wasn’t a photographer; as for the stock part, it can be argued that he did not always write having a client in mind, so from this point of view, he was a sort of stock-writer.

Red pencil stroke around "Valentine", one of Shakespeare's "Two gentlemen of Verona"'s characters
Almost irreverently, I tried to adapt his texts to modern and popular stock concepts, by highlighting matching near (yet not adjacent) words.
The result is this series, that can be found and purchased (royalty free) on iStock, or licensed on Alamy or by contacting me.

