the new Snapshot # 159-60 / civilized ku 1513-14 ~

light/shadow • bathroom window light thru curtain ~ in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) iPhone

light/shadow • flowers ~ in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) µ4/3

light/shadow • bike wheel ~ in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) µ4/3

The sun is lower in the Autumn sky so a whole new bunch of light-and-shadow picturing opportunities arise.

single women # 36 / the new snapshot # 155-56 ~ the impossible project

waitress ~ East Village, NYC (embiggenable) µ4/3

ornament ~ East Village, NYC (embiggenable) iPhone

60 degrees~ East Village, NYC (embiggenable) iPhone

Here's the thing about the free prints deal ...

... I can't help feeling that this deal is too good to be true. Except, it obviously is true at this point in time. My worry is that it will cease to be before I can get, say, a billion of my pictures printed.

Seriously though, I currently have approximately 8,000 finished pictures-processed, edited and saved-in my FINALS folder. Only about 25% have been seen on my blogs (the original blogspot blog, the Landscapist blog and the current Lifesquared blog). And it's just a guess but I would estimate that about 800-900 of my pictures have been printed - that number includes those pictures printed in books.

FYI, on this blog / site there are 33 sperate bodies of work on the HOME (aka WORK) page. Contained in those bodies of work are approximately 400-500 pictures. If I were to print only those pictures (a very dubious proposition), I would need to send off approximately 20 groups of 25 images each which requires a whole lot of prep work - each file needs to be re-sampled to the right file size and saved as a jpeg.

The long and short of it is simple. I will be spending a lot of time organizing, prepping and uploading picture files to PARABO.

civilized ku # 1511 / the new snapshot # 153-54 ~ a return to the good ol' days

window graffiti ~ East Village / NYC (embiggenable) • µ4/3

green vase / morning light ~ East Village, NYC (embiggenable) iPhone

flowers in vase ~ East Village, NYC (embiggenable) iPhone

Spent 3 days in NYC to attend a birthday party.

Took my the new snapshot prints and everyone was quite impressed, especially the fact that the prints were free prints. At least 20 people downloaded the Parabo app with the intention of ordering some free prints.

The other very intersting thing was that nearly everyone who viewed the prints was quite taken with the fact that the pictures-even though they were made with iPhone-were pictures which you could hold in your hand. They thought that was really cool, really cool. It was as if they had just discovered that pictures look different (and better) as prints rather than they look when viewing them on a cell phone screen.

Image that.

civilized ku # 5108 / the new snaphot # 149-50 ~ unsuspecting places

potted plants / late evening light ~ in the Adirondacks (embiggenable) • iPhone

silhouette on porch screen ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone

flowers / late day sunlight ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone

I have arrived at a point, re: "the new snapshot, where I have a sizeable body of work all made while sitting on my butt on my Adirondack chair on my back porch. I most certainly was not attempting to make a body of work with that POV M.O. as my guiding light. Nevertheless, over time, there it is.

Were I to name this body of work-and I will-the name must be My Tribute to André Kertesz. The reason for that title is rather straight forward ... late in his life Kertesz was a broken man who had lost his direction. He began his successful recovery from that state of mind when he began making pictures soley within the confines of his apartment or from the windows thereof. The making of those pictures was accomplished with his exclusive use of a Polaroid SX-70 camera.

So, a simple camera (my iPhone) and making pictures in a confined area (my back porch) are my connection to Mr. Kertesz and his work. I don't know how late in life Kertesz was when he began his SX-70 work but, at 70, I guess I'm kinda late in life as well. Fortunately, I am not a broken man (mentally, emotionally or physically), have not lost my direction nor am I in need of any kind of recovery.

All of that written, there has been a book sitting unused on one of my bookshelves for many years. That book, André Kertesz The Polaroids, has, as of today, recaptured my attention. It is a beautiful book - the reproduction, the design / paper / binding, and, of course, André Kertesz's pictures. I would highly recommend it as must read / view to help any picture maker understand the picture making potential to be found in the most unsuspecting of places.