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Recent Photos

In May I took my second trip to the Palouse, this one with Alan Caddey, and some of the results are here. Enroute I stopped in Seattle to make more photos of the Experience Music Project, which I also photographed several years ago. It is still wonderful. I also made some shots of the Seattle Library, which is quite interesting. While in the Palouse I passed by the Willard Car Farm, and was able to get permission to shoot junk cars there. Here I show a few of the ones that have been added to my Junk Car album and my talk, Rust, Rubbish, and Reflections, that I will be giving a the PSA Conference in Portland in September.

Pictorial

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.

Junk cars etc.

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, 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. Others are from Willard's Car Ranch near Garfield, WA. I believe that Ernst Haas was the first to see the possibilities in cars like these. More of these images can be seen by downloading the Junk Cars slides-to-music file. There are also a number of images of similar unconventional subjects that I have found in various places, so this is no longer restricted to cars.

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

Creative

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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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 | Permalink

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Photos by Joe Hearst.