Recent Photos

  • Cocker
    Here are some pictures from various places in the Bay Area, and pictures from November when I went to Fort Point with my friend Dick Stahlke. Most of the Fort Point shots are 7- to 9- exposure HDR.

New York

  • Back and foot rub
    In late April I went to New York with my friend and cousin Ed Weil. We spent the better part of a week finding uncommon subjects to shoot.

Oaxaca

  • Pigeon
    Richard Martin led a delightful trip to Oaxaca in February 2012. On this trip he emphasized photographing shadows, so many will appear in this album, along with plenty of colorful images.

France

  • Left bank street #2
    In May of 2011 I took a trip to France. The main reason was to visit the South of France with an instructor, Gene Turner, but I also spent a week in Paris.

Cuba

  • Check-in
    In December of 2010 I went on a one-week "humanitarian" trip with a group from PSA. It was the most concentrated and productive week in my photographic career. Here are the results.

Rust and Rubbish

  • Construction on Hearst Street
    A lecture by the Canadian photographer Richard Martin inspired me to start photographing rusted junk cars. I believe that Ernst Haas was the first to see the possibilities in cars like these. I have also been photographing a large number of unconventional subjects besides junk cars, but that fit in the same category. Harbors are particularly fruitful sources for that sort of thing. I have also found many suitable subjects on and IN the street in my local area.

Reflections

  • Window 1
    As part of my work on Rust, Rubbish, and Reflections I have assembled my favorite Reflection pictures in one place. A large percentage of them are made in harbors, particularly in Victoria BC and Iceland. Others are made in streams, puddles, windows, the sides of cars, and so on.

Pictorial

  • Vines 4
    Pictorial (sic) pictures are judged by their artistic quality, and any subject or process is acceptable. Often people will submit the best of their nature, travel, creative pictures as pictorial.

Travel

  • Taiko #2
    "A travel picture must express the feeling of a time and place, portray a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state, and has no geographic limitations." This may seem clear, but different judges interpret it quite differently.

Creative

  • Wineglass shadow
    "Creative photography is producing an image through the use of imaginative skill or originality of thought including the altering of reality. No image should be eliminated from consideration simply because it looks realistic, provided it shows originality of concept." Note: this does not require compter manipulation - unmanipulated images with unusual angles of view or subject selection often win.

Point Lobos

  • Whalers' Cove, Point Lobos
    These are all images made at Point Lobos State Reserve just south of Carmel, California. I am collecting them here even though they are also shown in other albums, to show what can be done at Pt. Lobos

Nature

  • Sea dragon
    "The Nature Photography Division is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict observations from all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject matter and certify as to its honest presentation.

Southwest

  • Kissers
    In October, 2004 my friend Dan Katzman and I went to the Colorado Plateau, primarily in the Paria Wilderness and the Escalante area, and stopped at Bryce Canyon on the way home. These pictures are from that trip. Then in June, 2010 I went with Dick Stahlke to Santa Fe via Monument Valley and returned via Sedona. The landscapes from that trip are also in this album

Photojournalism

  • Picking grapes #1
    "Journalism entries shall consist of pictures with informative content and emotional impact, including human interest, documentary and spot news." .

Photos by Joe Hearst

   This WebLog is a birthday present from my elder daughter Marti.

The images are arranged in albums some of which correspond to Photographic Society of America (PSA) categories (Pictorial, Nature, Travel, Creative) and others to places and subjects.

The links below are articles published in the Photographic Society of America Journal

Download Reflecting on Reflections

Download Harbor Details are Fun

Download Concrete Abstracts

  Download Junk-cars-are-fun

 Download Different Kind of Street Photography

Download A Portfolio from a Single Seashell

Download Photograph point lobos

Download Don't Miss Guanajuato

December 28, 2009 | | Comments (0)

Colorful Oaxaca

Download Oaxaca Oaxaca, Mexico, is a wonderful place to make colorful images.  I went there with Richard Martin.  This is a 5-minute Windows executable file.  The music is from a CD that I bought from a woman in a local street market.

May 27, 2012 | | Comments (0)

Cuba - From Magnficence to Squalor

In December of 2010 I visited Havana and Trinidad de Cuba.  I was particularly fascinated by the way people manage to have vibrant lives in the midst of decaying once-magnificent buildings. The show is a Windows-executable file and takes about 9 minutes.  Download Cuba - magnificence to squalor

November 03, 2011 | | Comments (0)

A visit to the Luberon

The Luberon is a delightful district in the center of Provence, in southern France.  This is a Windows-executable  four-minute show.  You will hear the ballet music from Faust, by Gounod.

Download Visit to the Luberon

November 03, 2011 | | Comments (0)

Two Mexican Towns

These are pictures from a trip to San Miguel de Allende on a Santa Fe Workshop and another trip to San Miguel and Guanajuato with my cousin Ed Weil.  It is a Windows executable file that runs about six minutes  Download two_mexican_towns.exe

December 12, 2007 | | Comments (3)

Street Photography.

Street photography is usually thought of as photographing people on the street.  Here I have photographed other things - water pipes, paint on the curb, things seen in store windows, torn posters, door handles, and so on.  Most of them are within an hour's drive or transit ride from my home. Download street.exe   It is a Windows-executable file of about 28 Mb and runs a little over five minutes.   The music is from "Romeo and Juliet" by Prokofiev.

March 11, 2007 | | Comments (1)

Junk Cars

A lecture by the Canadian photographer Richard Martin inspired me to start photographing rusted junk cars. So far,  I have found subjects near Santa Fe, on a workshop with Martin near Kingston Ontario, Berkeley California and Colfax Washington.  I  believe that Ernst Haas was the first to see the possiblities in cars like these.  The music is from the ballet La Fille mal Gardee' by Ferdinand Herold, with some help from John Lanchberry.    Download junk.exe   It is a 25-meg Windows - executable file and takes a little over five minutes to run.

September 25, 2005 | | Comments (0)

Paria

A group of images from Northern Arizona and Southern Utah, mainly from the Paria Wilderness (including South Coyote Buttes and The Wave), Lower Antelope Canyon, and Bryce Canyon. The music is from Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland.    Download Paria.exe   It is a Windows - executable file and takes a little over five minutes.

April 25, 2005 | | Comments (0)

Harbor

Here are some images made in Iceland, Nova Scotia, and the west coast of the U. S., set to a Beethoven sonata.  It is a Windows executable file and takes a bit over four minutes.    Download harbor.exe

November 20, 2004 |

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