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Walking on Main Street

01 Thursday Nov 2012

Posted by Susana Weber in Abstract Macro Photography, Art, History, Photography, Uncategorized

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accidental image, accidental images, barn, color, fall color, fall leaves, flag, grunge, heart, hearts, hidden picture, houses, landscape, leaves, macro photo, outdoors, peeling paint, photo walk, photography, porch, special place, texture, us flag, walk

We walked on Main Street in Georgetown, Massachusetts… Jack and me, crunching our way through the piles of color and texture, our heads down against a steady breeze. Not because of some extreme temperature that need be endured… but to shield our eyes from the low and exceptionally bright Fall sun. We walked away from the center of town along the busy street, trucks rumpling by every few seconds… until the sidewalk ended, then turned and walk toward town on the other side of the street. We’re making good time when… a car stops and two young girls, visitors from Germany inquire about where they can find a MacDonald’s or a Starbucks. They aren’t looking for a fast food meal or overpriced coffee… but a WiFi zone so they can communicate with their families and friends… relate the details of their trip… reassure their parents that they haven’t kidnapped here in Massachusetts. So on we go. Main Street, we discover is all about texture and color today! I’m trying to take pictures of what I’ve found and Jack is all about getting back to the pet store we discovered on our way. There’s a treat waiting for him, he’s pretty sure.

Here’s what we found on a little portion of Main Street…

Color… of course… it’s Fall in New England. It’s what we have! With the tropical storm ‘Sandy’ approaching, there will be little color left when she’s gone!

Shadows on a red barn. The low sun at this time of year is interesting… creating patterns on everything.

Texture!! Can you even tell what it is? There’s another with a different pattern…

Believe it or not… this is from a front door. Paint peeling off a door on a house built in 1810. It’s unoccupied and probably for sale. Any one interested?

An American porch… without a doubt. The glow on the ceiling is a bounce from all the yellow leaves in the yard. I wanted to sit and watch the day go by.

Primary colors… gone too soon, to be sure.

One of my friendly tree people. This one seems a little anxious about the coming storm… excitable but harmless. :)

The white shade… A composition in angles and lines. This historic house, the Adams Clark House, is striking in that a corner of the house is almost directly on the street. A personal favorite from the days walk. Look how all the lines and shapes lead the eye to the center of the photo and the brightest spot… the shade.

An accidental heart… they find me everywhere… this one in the peeling paint of a neglected fence.

You’ve Got Mail… I couldn’t help smiling at the irony of talking with the girls from Germany communicating half a world distance from their families while we stood in front of this “LETTERS” slot on an ancient door. How long would someone have waited for a simple letter from a loved one to slip through this portal with the “latest” news?… not that long ago.

Walking up North Street

25 Thursday Oct 2012

Posted by Susana Weber in Learning, Nature, Photography, Uncategorized

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abandoned house, accidental images, American flag, bark, bittersweet, blue sky, decorations, dog, faces, fall color, fall leaves, flag, found things, hidden pictures, house, jack, peeling paint, photography, poodle, stars and stripes, trees, walk, wreaths

On fine Autumn days like this we like to walk. Jack is the perfect excuse to walk and does so nicely for a 10 month old puppy, greeting people on the street without jumping and patient about being fussed over. Jack has one agenda during our walks and I have another. His is to smell anything and everything… and mine is to find something to capture in my camera. I don’t look for anything specific… just record what I find. Here’s what we found on our walk up North Street in Georgetown, Massachusetts: a spooky house, a ghost in a tree, several trees with faces, fall leaves, a dog in a birch tree, a flag in the breeze… among other things…

Shadow composition with red hydrant.

Ghost in the tree… a spooky figure in a hooded robe.

A spooky house appears abandoned… but, getting closer showed…

… a colorful object in the window suggests an unlikely resident.

A tree with a face.

A bittersweet wreath in the shadows.

A tree with a number of faces… a large one at the bottom looking left with a puffy cheek… a small face just below and to the right of the large one… a profile on the right side of the trunk (by the white cloud). At the top there appears to be a man standing with arms outstretched.

The beauty of the day reflecting in the water of a creek on North Street.

The true colors of fall leaves are revealed!

The most amazing found object… a complete dog in the bark of a birch tree.

Only days from an election… the American flags are everywhere.

Jack agrees that there are good smells on North Street. We’ll be back. :)

The Accidental Artist

08 Monday Oct 2012

Posted by Susana Weber in Abstract Macro Photography, Art, Photography, Uncategorized

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The Rusty’s Truck Series

My friend Rusty comes over and hunts out in the woods… during bow season in the fall. When he’s not doing that… or hanging out at the local village store/coffee shop/post office in our little town with the other “guys in pick-up trucks”… he’s up on somebody’s roof. Rusty is an excellent roofer and his truck can be seen in all the best driveways around town.

Strange Sun

Strange Sun – Rusty’s truck series

A few weeks ago, his truck was parked in our driveway… along with a few others as we got some house and yard projects taken care of. Rusty was here putting up staging on the roof for our local house painter. His truck and all his ‘roofin’ stuff was parked under my studio window. I stood staring down at years and years worth of worn wood and metal and paint and welding and rust, and grunge and… well, I just had to record some of all that amazing beauty that was right under my nose… literally!!

Untitled 1

Untitled 1 – Rusty’s truck series

After some friendly teasing about about my taking pictures of his creative welding techniques and a few examples of what I was capturing from the back of the camera preview screen… he was pointing out areas that might be good subjects for a shot. Soon, both he and the house painter were directing my efforts, offering drop cloths and paint buckets as possible subjects.

So… even my friend Rusty is an artist and he doesn’t know it! I hope he enjoys the gallery of images from the “Rusty’s Truck” series.

Carib Sunset ~ Rusty's truck series

Carib Sunset – Rusty’s truck series

Surfs Edge – Rusty’s truck series

Untitled 2

Untitled 2 – Rusty’s truck series

Deep View

Deep View – Rusty’s truck series

A-B-N

A-B-N – Rusty’s truck series

Playing with fire…

18 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by Susana Weber in Abstract Macro Photography, Art, Photography, Uncategorized

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abstract, accidental image, accidental images, art, arts, clouds, hidden picture, landscape, macro, macro photo, peeling paint, photography, volcano, volcanos

Volcano 1

Volcano 1

In my ongoing and seemingly endless project of organizing my files, finding a way to work off the network that my husband and I both use… and do a little editing along the way when something interesting pops up in the files… I found a collection that I didn’t know I had! What a nice surprise. And… an odd subject as well which, makes them even more attractive to me. :) Volcanos!!!

I do realize that the hidden picture… or Accidental Image isn’t the most exciting of subjects… but, most people do identify with the phenomenon of seeing something that is an accidental occurrence… and recognizing it’s existence. The most common is perhaps the clouds that look like rabbits or profiles of people, angles or fish shapes. Just how common is it? Well, I host a group on the Redbubble site which is all about these hidden pictures and the membership has reached 800+ and there are are 16,300 images in the group collection!! Come visit the group and click on the “Gallery” in the menu to scroll through the image thumbnails. Click on any thumbnail to go to that images page.

So, here is my little collection of smokin’ mountains of molten whatever from the center of the earth… distant views with smoke spewing in metal, concrete, asphalt and a peeling paint diagram of magma tubes as plain as day. I hope I find some more!

Volcano 2

Volcano 2

Volcano 3

Volcano 3

Volcano 4

Volcano 4

Volcano 5 Magma flow

Volcano 5 Magma flow

The distraction of ‘found art’.

11 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by Susana Weber in Abstract Macro Photography, Art, Photography, Uncategorized

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In the act of fixing a chewed piece of woodwork (aren’t puppies wonderful!!) and after applying the necessary wood filler and sculpting an edge with handy pallet knives… and the necessary sanding, etc… I finally opened the almost empty gallon of white interior latex paint to finish the job. But, my progress ground to a complete halt with the discovery of a whirlwind of winter weather on the walls of the inside of the can of paint and the round lids as well. These kinds of images have become an obsession… I’ll make my husband wait at a gas station while I capture the peeling an crackling paint on the side of a rusting dumpster. But… this is the first time I’d been delayed by the fresh paint itself dried into wintery shapes and textures in the can it came in!! I share them with you…

A can of winter in the middle of June…

Whiteout

Whiteout

Lasting impression

Lasting impression

What we don't see

What we don’t see

Perceptions

Seasonal cold

Seasonal cold

True love

09 Friday Mar 2012

Posted by Susana Weber in Abstract Macro Photography, Art, Photography, Travel ~ Photography/Art/Food/Culture

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abstract, art, grafitti, peeling paint, St Martin, texture, watercolor

Regardless of how many vacation snaps I capture… or more arty landscapes, seascapes or still life compositions documenting a vacation trip. I always seem to have a much larger proportion of closeups of my true love… peeling paint! I’m drawn to it like a magnet… composing and adjusting for the correct DOF, focus and lighting. Add rust, scratches, plant parts, textures, rocks, tile, stone, concrete, wood and other surfaces too numerous to mention to the mix and you have a very full camera and vacation pictures that are a tad confusing to anyone casually looking at my files. My husband is used to me searching out the nearest dumpsters when were visiting some exotic local. Hey, exotic place = exotic grunge (theoretically)! For me… that’s where they keep the… ART!

Abstract peel

Abstract peel

 

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