Rust and Rubbish

  • Spout
    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. So far, I have found cars near Santa Fe; on a workshop with Martin near Kingston ON; the Willard Car Farm near Garfield, WA, the Big M junkyard in Williams, CA, and the streets of Berkeley CA, Colfax WA, in Mexico, and near home. Some of them are of cars owned by a man called Fatdog, who has a guitar shop in Berkeley and, when he saw me shooting a truck in front of the shop, invited me to his ranch near Sonoma, CA. . 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, and I have done well in Victoria BC and Newport and Charleston, OR, among other places. I have also found many suitable subjects on and IN the street in my local area.

Reflections

  • Experience Music Project Corner
    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. I love to go fishing boat harbors to find them, since boats in ordinary marinas are usually white. Others are made in streams, puddles, windows, the sides of cars, and so on.

Recent Photos

  • Alley in Chania
    In March I took a trip to Death Valley, led by Gale Perry of Light Fantastic Photo Tours. She is a good leader (except for making us get up so early to catch the sunrises). I'd never shot there before and it was very good training. In April I did some shooting on Stockton Street in San Francisco's Chinatown, where many Chinese people shop. Then in May I went to Amsterdam where, without planning to, I encountered the Queen's Day festivities, and then to a workshop with Steve Outram in Western Crete. He is based in the town of Chania, and I spent several days there, some with him and some alone. We also went to Rethymno and to Loutro on the south coast. One reason I went to Crete is my admiration for the work of George Meis, who does spectacularly colorful images of Greek Island scenes. There are rumors that he manipulates scenes by moving pots and even repainting buildings. I can't do that, but I have Photoshop, so I tried to emulate him in quite a number of images.

Pictorial

  • Makawehi Cliffs
    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.

Point Lobos

  • Misty Waves*
    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

Creative

  • Seattle Structure #6
    "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.

Travel

  • Waipo'o fall, Waimea Canyon, Kaua'i
    "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.

Nature

  • Pronghorn
    "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.

Colorado Plateau

  • Rocky Stairway
    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.

Photojournalism

  • Guarding the Wine*
    "Journalism entries shall consist of pictures with informative content and emotional impact, including human interest, documentary and spot news." .

Harbor Details are Fun

This is the text of an article being submitted to the PSA Journal.  It describes methods for making unusual compositions in fishing boat harbors.   It is a companion to my previous articles on Junk Cars and Street Photography.    Download Harbors

December 11, 2008 | | 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 (125)

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 (0)

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 (134)

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 |

Photos by Joe Hearst

This WebLog is a birthday present from one of my daughters. If you don't like the color scheme, blame her.

The photographs on this site are all available for purchase, as archival-quality inkjet prints, slides, or high-resolution RGB files. Price depends on size, matting, and intended use.

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. An asterisk * after a title indicates that the image has been accepted at one or more PSA International Exhibitions.

The posts below are PC-executable files that play a program of images accompanied by music that I think is appropriate for them.

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