civilized ku # 5098 / the new snapshot (redux) ~ a winner

at the grocery store ~ Long Lake, NY • in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) - picture made with a "real" camera

soon to be on exhibit ~ Photo Place Gallery • Middlebury, VT. (emboggenable)

I received an email on Friday last which read in part:

Thank you for submitting your work for PhotoPlace Gallery’s juried exhibition, "iPhone Imagery". Juror Karen Divine has chosen 31 photographs for the gallery exhibition, and an additional 31 photographs for display in the Online Gallery on the PhotoPlace Gallery website. It’s a wonderful collection of work.

I am very pleased to tell you that one of your images was selected for exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery. Congratulations!

I am delighted that, after just a couple months since starting my the new snapshot project, one of my the new snapshot pictures was deemed worthy of inclusion in a gallery juried exhibition. I am especially delighted inasmuch as, after viewing the website of the exibition's judge, I didn't think that I had much of chance of being accepted. Coincidentally, the Bakery Window picture is the first the new snapshot picture to be printed large, framed and hung on a wall in my house.

FYI, all of the pictures accepted to the exhibit can be viewed HERE. The pictures are, as my email stated, "a a wonderful collection of (iPhone) work.

conversations # 1-4 / the new snapshot #112 ~ photo conversations

Hobson / Nilsson

Nilsson / Hobson

M. Hobson / A. Hobson

M. Hobson / A. Hobson

Rist camp daze ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)

As previously mentioned, I have been involved in creating photo conversations for submission to a LENSCRATCH online exhibition. The idea for the exhibition is for a picture maker to partner with another picture maker and connect one of your images with another photographer’s image that begins a story.

I reached out to 2 picture makers .... one whose work with which I am well acquainted - my son, The Cinemascapist - and another with whose work I am familar (by visiting his blog) but have never communicated with - Peter Nilsson.

The results are presented in this entry. Although, the 4 which are presented here (submitted to the exhibition) - 2 from each collaboration - were culled from 12 "conversations" which were created in the course of our "conversations". My intention is to present all 12 "conversations" in the coming days.

The exercise was both challenging and fun. So much so that I am giving very serious consideration to starting a photo conversations blog.

ku # 1414 / the new snapshot 104-07 ~ making conversations

sundown / Rist Camp ~ Newcomb,NY • in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)

painted roadside erratic

sunlight in sink

sunlight on wall thru old rolled glass
 

surveying the hunting grounds

Tuesday morning and I am finally settled in at Rist Camp. After a late afternnon arrival on Saturday, Sunday was spent driving to and from Canada for a hockey game. Monday was home and back for pet retrieval along with some other things.

The computer is all set up and I am catching up on creating my end of some PHOTOGRAPHS IN CONVERSATION for submission to a LENSCRATCH online exhibition. It's fun stuff and I'll most likely try to continue having "conversations" after the exhibition exercise is finished.

Anyone intersted in having some "conversations"?

all pictures made with iPhone 7 Plus camera module.

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civilized ku # 5096 / the new snapshot # 100-103 ~

into the lake ~ Fern Lake • in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)

hotel stay ~ Canton, MA. (embiggenable)

In 2 days I will be moving all of my computer stuff to Rist Camp for our annual 5-week getaway at the camp. We will have lots of visitors who will all be the new snapshot picture making fodder.

The written, it should be noted that I have lots of old snapshots made by father of family and friends made while he and my mother were in the Adirondacks on vacation stays. So, it's very fitting and a the-circle-is-complete kinda thing that I am now engaged in the very same snapshot activity which makes, for me, a very interesting and emotional connection to my dad.

civilized ku # 5094 / the new snapshot # 92-95 ~ techno-obession

For the most part I really don't care how a picture was made. I care only about a picture itself. Does it "work" for me or not.

However, a few days ago, I was curious about the iPhone 7 sensor size inasmuch as, whatever size it is, it makes damn good pictures. So, I asked Google the question and it took me to a forum on DPReview on which I found out what size it is (small) and I landed smack dab in the middle of a a very long string of comments, re: the sensor and the phone itself.

The comments revolved around: a) the sensor sucks, b) so do the pictures it makes, c) Apple sucks, d) Apple shoulda ..., e) Apple didn't ... and the like. Of couse, opposing opinions, re: the mentioned, were in no short supply. The string went on and on. Ideas and insults were exchanged in relatively equal measure.

Needless to write, I bailed after a relatively short perusal of the, iMo, inane and senseless nattering.

As I have written and stated on many previous occasions, I will never be able to comprehend the obsession so many picture makers have with the techincal aspects of picture making gear. And, as I have also written and stated, because of that obsession, the worst audience to show one's pictures to are "serious" picture makers. They seem intrinsically unable to look at a picture without gear and technique thoughts dancing in their heads like a swarm of nasty bees.

the new snapshot ~ the border question and more's the pity

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As I have been cruising along in my the new snapshot picture making delirium, I have been experimenting with various border types. As seen above, Polaroid Spectra border with album corners and tape (1), unadorned Polaroid Spectra border (2), SX 70 border with caption (3), and a traditional drug store processing deckled edge (4).

I was experimenting with different border treatments while operating under the assumption that I needed to find the "perfect" border and then would use that border for all of my the new snapshot pictures. However, when I was making a few 16-picture assemblage prints, I made 1 print where I mixed pictures with different borders - #s 2,3,4. I very much liked the result because it was less regimented in appearance. And .... it occurred to me (duh) that traditional snapshots were made with all kinds of camera formats so it made perfect sense to use different border types.

With that issue put to bed, I started to ruminate on the manner in which I would make prints for wall display (home, gallery, etc.). I eventually came to the conclusion that, since most modern snapshots are made and displayed on digital devices, the best way to present them - no matter which border they have - was to picture them on a screen of one kind or another. The cell phone being the most common display device, I decided to experiment with making a picture of a picture on the cell phone screen.

All of which led to another question ... on what kind of background would the cell phone sit? The anwer to that question is seen in the top most picture in this entry. I find the empty frame to be the perfect counterpoint to picture display on screen vs. as a print in a frame.

More's the pity that so few pictures made with a cell phone will ever see the light of day as a printed picture.