Thursday, June 7, 2012

Hello!


Hi, welcome to my new blog.  After being gently nudged for some time by my wife (with a cattle prod), I finally decided to take the plunge and start a blog.  I guess Lee got tired of my constant blathering about photography and figured this would redirect me to the web, where I could ramble on and nobody would have to pay attention.  So here I am!

The photograph at the top of the page is our dog, Winston, with a new friend.  Winston is an old guy of 16 who still has a zest for life.  He was in our back yard the other day when I noticed him looking at something very intently and wagging his tail.  It was this baby robin.  Putting Winston back in the house, I ran upstairs and grabbed my camera.  After taking a few shots of the robin alone, I let the dog back outside and took this picture.  Immediately afterward, the mother robin squawked and the baby flew away.  Winston is the gentlest dog I have ever known.  Until she died last year, his best friend was a cat named Sabina.

Last Friday, I met my friend Dick downtown for lunch.  Leaving early, I stopped by Cleveland's industrial area, the Flats, to take pictures.  My favorite is Escher's Stairway, taken with my Nikon D200 modified to capture infrared light.  I decided not to convert it to black & white as I thought the red color was kind of cool.  It's a closeup of a curved stairway going up a large storage tank.  Taken in bright morning sunlight, I found the shadows very interesting.  Even though I know what it is, I find it difficult to see it that way.  The shadows often become stairs to me, or I can see some of them as shadows and others as stairs at the same time in different parts of the image.  Very confusing.  I have always enjoyed Escher's work so I named it after him as the photograph could not be the way I often see it.

Well, this ends my first post.  The good news is that I finally have a blog.  The bad news (for Lee) is that I'm still going to blather endlessly about photography.  Hope any of you who stumbled onto this site enjoyed it.


2 comments:

  1. Congrats on the new blog Bill! I shall bookmark it and follow it as I have with other photographers I know. I like your photo at the top of the blog. :)

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  2. Love your photography. Congratulations on starting a blog so I can listen to you blather and enjoy your art.
    I found you via Cindy Allman's blog and that via a google search because I liked her painting in Splash 9. My surprise was her Medina gazebo pen & ink picture.
    I lived in Strongsville and Medina from 1989-1996. We have kids and grandkids in Medina so come to visit several times a year.
    I haven't been to the Flats since probably 1994ish for a concert. Sometimes I think I'd like to move back, beautiful state - I miss the Metropark big time.
    I have been doing photography since 2000. Started with b/w film. Doing digital since 2008.
    I will watch your blog grow while enjoying your art.
    Thank you for sharing.

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