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To the moon and back……………

29 Friday May 2015

Posted by Karen in 30DaysWild, Just because....

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art, black and white, moon, photoaday, Photography

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. “
– W. Clement Stone

Another quick post today as this week is half term holiday time for my children and my husband and I also have had time off phone work 🙂

Have a great weekend and see you on the other side when I start my 30 Days Wild Challenge 🙂

30DAYSWILD_ID1 black

Black and White Photo 5-day Challenge: Day 5

05 Tuesday May 2015

Posted by Karen in 5 Day Challenge

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art, bird, black and white, daily, fine art, photoaday, Photography

Birds of a feather

Merry Hearts Medicine recently challenged me to participate in the “Black and White Photo Five-day Challenge.”  It has taken me a while to respond but obviously, I have accepted, as I love black and white! 😉

What is this challenge? Well, the goal is to post one B&W photo each day for five days………Part of the fun is to nominate another blogger, one on each day…There is no pressure to accept this challenge after all it’s just for fun! 🙂 

As this is now my final day of the challenge 😦 There are so many bloggers that I could nominate here as I love seeing what others come up with for challenges like this, so today, I am going to break the rule and nominate any readers of my blog who would like to take part in this challenge. It is fantastic fun and well worth doing, especially if you have not tried black and white photography before, I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised.

Black and White Photo 5-day Challenge: Day 4

04 Monday May 2015

Posted by Karen in 5 Day Challenge, Black & white challenge

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art, black and white, candid, photoaday, Photography, portraits

Afternoon sherry

Merry Hearts Medicine recently challenged me to participate in the “Black and White Photo Five-day Challenge.”  It has taken me a while to respond but obviously, I have accepted, as I love black and white! 😉

What is this challenge? Well, the goal is to post one B&W photo each day for five days………Part of the fun is to nominate another blogger, one on each day…There is no pressure to accept this challenge after all it’s just for fun! 🙂 

Today, I nominate Vanessa of Petal & Mortar who shares recipes, crafts and photos on her wonderful blog.

Feel free to ignore this challenge if you do not wish to participate.  If you dodecide to join in, I look forward to viewing your photos!   😀

Black and White Photo 5-day Challenge: Day 3

03 Sunday May 2015

Posted by Karen in 5 Day Challenge, Black & white challenge

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architecture, art, black and white, fine art, photoaday, Photography

The neverending stories!

Merry Hearts Medicine recently challenged me to participate in the “Black and White Photo Five-day Challenge.”  It has taken me a while to respond but obviously, I have accepted, as I love black and white! 😉

What is this challenge? Well, the goal is to post one B&W photo each day for five days………Part of the fun is to nominate another blogger, one on each day…There is no pressure to accept this challenge after all it’s just for fun! 🙂 

Today, I nominate Lucile of bridging lacunas, who shares her wonderful photography and words on her blog.

Feel free to ignore this challenge if you do not wish to participate.  If you dodecide to join in, I look forward to viewing your photos!   😀

Black and White Photo 5 day challenge – Day 2

02 Saturday May 2015

Posted by Karen in 5 Day Challenge, Black & white challenge

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art, black and white, fine art, flowers, photoaday, Photography

Merry Hearts Medicine recently challenged me to participate in the “Black and White Photo Five-day Challenge.”  It took me a while to respond but obviously, I have accepted, as I love black and white! 😉 What is this challenge? Well, the goal is to post one B&W photo each day for five days………Part of the fun is to nominate another blogger, one on each day…There is no pressure to accept this challenge after all it’s just for fun! 🙂  Today, I nominate SenK Photography, who shares his wonderful photography on his blog. Feel free to ignore this challenge if you do not wish to participate.  If you do decide to join in, I look forward to viewing your photos!   😀

Black and White Photo 5-day Challenge: Day 1

01 Friday May 2015

Posted by Karen in 5 Day Challenge, Black & white challenge

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art, black and white, people, Photography, street photography

Merry Hearts Medicine recently challenged me to participate in the “Black and White Photo Five-day Challenge.”  It has taken me a while to respond but obviously, I have accepted, as I love black and white! 😉 What is this challenge? Well, the goal is to post one B&W photo each day for five days………Part of the fun is to nominate another blogger, one on each day…There is no pressure to accept this challenge after all it’s just for fun! 🙂  Today, I nominate That Travelling Nurse, who shares her wonderful travel stories and photography on her blog. Feel free to ignore this challenge if you do not wish to participate.  If you do decide to join in, I look forward to viewing your photos!   😀

W is for………………..

27 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Karen in A to Z Challenge 2015, Macro Monday

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art, black and white, fine art, food, high key, nuts, photoaday, Photography, superfood

Walnut

Macro Monday: into the soul

20 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Karen in Macro Monday

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art, black and white, daily, eye, fine art, photoaday, Photography

Baby blues

Black and white blues

and just for a bit of fun, a different type of eye 🙂

Averting the eye!

Lensbaby love

04 Saturday Apr 2015

Posted by Karen in Weekly Photo Challenge

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art, black and white, blur, childhood, daily, fine art, lensbaby, photoaday, Photography

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams

Run, run as fast as you can

The Lensbaby lenses are manual-focus tilt-shift lenses that allow a photographer to creatively explore selective focus and blur. It can help the subject of your photo stand out more (or less, depending on your desired effect).

On the edge

Sometimes it can even create an effect that makes it look like your subject is in motion.

Swinging

The look they create does not appeal to everyone, however, the images they create are very unique, and a lot of fun. I happen to be a huge lensbaby fan. It is one of my lenses (as well as my macro that is!) that is always in my camera bag. It consist of two parts – lens body and lens optic. I have a composer pro lensbaby lens body and a variety of optics which are interchangeable: sweet 35 (35mm), edge 80 (80mm), macro converters and the  double glass optic (50mm). I hope one day to get the pinhole optic, the soft focus optic and the zone plate optic. By far, my most favorite lensbaby optic so far is the edge 80, I just love the look. It creates a slice of focus through the frame, blurring out the rest.

This post is in response to the Daily Post weekly challenge of “blur”, the brief being “A throwaway shot, or purposefully unfocused? This week, find beauty in a blur.”. I immediately thought of my lensbaby with the word blur 🙂

Photographer research: Ray Metzker

26 Thursday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in Artists, Photographer research

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art, black and white, fine art, learning, Photography, Ray Metzker

I had slightly mixed emotions about some of Trent Parke’s work so I wanted to look at other artists who are known for their use of light and shadow.

Ray K. Metzker (September 10, 1931 – October 9, 2014) was a major American photographer known for both his work in cityscape and landscape photography and for his large “multiples”, assemblages of printed strips and single frames.

He described the power of light in an image in a very similar way to Trent explaining that it can “transform the ordinary into a visual delight”. He repeatedly pushed an idea or a technique to the extreme, discovering its limits and its potential.

Many of his street photographs exhibit what Henri Cartier-Bresson refers to as the “Decisive Moment” — that moment in which all the subjects and details in a scene come together just perfectly in your viewfinder.

I find that there is something more appealing and intriguing about Ray’s images despite the similarities in their work and the darkness of some of his images, which surprised me as I usually like much lighter and airier images.

I feel that possibly Trent is trying to show the sometimes gritty truth about life whereas Ray’s work seems to be more about the beauty of the everyday caused by the way the light falls in a moment of time on the subject.

Ray’s work was earlier than that of Trent. Trent’s work, as shown in my previous post on famous photographers, were all taken between 1998 and 2004, these though, to me they appear timeless although they were taken during the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps Ray Metzker may have had an influence on the work of Trent Parke?

Here’s a short biography on Metzker by the New York City-based Laurence Miller Gallery:

“Ray K. Metzker has quietly been making extraordinary photographs for the better part of six decades. Today, he is recognized as one of the great masters of American photography, a virtuoso who has pursued his chosen medium passionately for fifty years. 

Metzker was born in 1931 in Milwaukee and attended the Institute of Design, Chicago–a renowned school that had a few years earlier been dubbed the New Bauhaus– from 1956 to 1959. He was thus an heir to the avant-garde photography that had developed in Europe in the 1920’s. Early in his career, his work was marked by unusual intensity. Composites, multiple-exposure, superimposition of negatives, juxtapositions of two images, solarization and other formal means were part and parcel of his vocabulary.  He was committed to discovering the potential of black and white photography during the shooting and the printing, and has shown consummate skill in each stage of the photographic process. Ray Metzker’s unique and continually evolving mastery of light, shadow and line transform the ordinary in the realm of pure visual delight.

Major American museums began showing an interest in Metzker’s work in the 1960’s. Cementing his reputation as a master photographer, the museum of Modern Art in New York gave him his first one-man show in 1967. Retrospectives were organized in 1978 by the International Center of Photography in New York, and in 1984 by the Museum of fine Arts in Houston. The Houston exhibit was subsequently shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the International Museum of Photography, Rochester, and the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.”

Head on over to the Laurence Miller Gallery website (the link can be found below) to see many more of Metzker’s photographs, you will not be disappointed.

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All the above images and quotes were taken from the following websites:

– Getty

 – Laurence Miller Gallery

– Wikipedia

– Jackson Fine Art

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