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I think every display of hub caps should be lit with Christmas lights –especially when they are wall decorations at the local taco place.
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McCormick Tribune Campus Center
Though I lived in Chicago for several years while in school and after, I never did much investigation of the city’s exemplary architecture. That all changed last weekend when I took a Chicago Architecture Foundation tour called Chicago Highlights and checked out some great buildings in the Loop, on the North side, and then I found a few new favorites on the South Side.
I chose the Highlights Tour because it offered an interior tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House in Hyde Park. And I did love the Wright House, but I loved photographing the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) even more. Even though we toured the campus under a heavy cover of gray clouds, and in chilly temps, it was a true joy with camera in hand.
I have a huge file of photographs to go through, but this photo of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC) was one of my favorites SOOC (straight out of camera). How can you miss with all those converging lines and those oranges and greens? This was one great building – all lines, details, colors – a combination dining facility, bookstore, computer center and more, and all tucked under a metal network of Chicago Transit elevated train (“L”) tracks. The building was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, completed in 2003, and included a renovation of the Commons Building (1953) designed by IIT’s most famous architect, Ludwig Meis van der Rohe.
I’ll be posting a series of photos from the entire tour including more photos from IIT – both interiors and exteriors from the Campus Center, and exterior photos of the S. R. Crown Hall by Meis and State Street Village, a student dorm by architect Helmut Jahn.
Coming next: the “tube” on top of the MTCC that keeps the vibration and noise of the commuter train from invading the student’s space.
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My first dip into ‘real’ post-processing, or at least post-processing as more than a corrected exposure or a heightened saturation. This is a first, tentative step into manipulation of a photograph, not to fix it, but to actually make it speak a statement.
I have mined this photo several times – first for a study of composition and contrast, then from a story-telling focus. This third attempt – this third perspective – takes me towards a different place.
I did not think I would try this type of post-processing. I thought it more important to work on very basics, and stubbornly to figure it out on my own. Why I insist on re-inventing the wheel, I’m not quite certain.
When I was faced with one of those ‘life-changing experiences’ last fall, I could no longer do the type of visual arts work I had done for the past 25 years. I tip-toed my way into photography, not willing to entirely delete ‘meaning-making’ from my life. Thus far I’ve been ‘taking pictures’ and creating them by eye. This is a foray into the territory of making a photograph by feel.
I cannot pull myself away from the many textures and layers of this photograph. I feel as if I am taking a class on capturing the nuances of this shot. I once considered doing a 100 photo challenge using a single subject. I don’t think the project’s conceiver meant to take a single photograph and work it a hundred ways, but sometimes I see so many ways I want to experiment with this one image. Not a hundred, but more than one or two.
I have no idea where this leads – I think it’s just another avenue to explore and maybe learn something while enjoying the walk.
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Taken in a place with no name (See more photos here)
In an earlier post, I cropped this photo closely for a study of the green window, pastel colors, and the attached front porch. I thought it made an interesting photo of contrasts.
gardengrow.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/green-window/
This time the photo works as a writing prompt with only minor cropping. For me, it opens an imagination bank and makes me want to tell a story. Why is this building “now open” and what is it open for? Do the two men have a part in the story? Why is this building in the center of Nassau’s Main Street, sharing territory with jewelry stores, high-end imports malls and tourist, duty-free liquor stores?
See, it’s definitely a story photo. I have about 5 photos now, both mine and other photographers – from whom I have written permission to use their photos. The photographs are all stored on my private, story-seed blog. I am writing, using the first one and I may post the photo/story combo when it is finished. If nothing else, I think it’s an interesting challenge.
Main Street
Nassau, the Bahamas
January 3, 2008
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- Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward. — Patricia Sampson
- This solitary tree stands in a small remnant of prairie located in Owen Conservation Park in Madison, Wisconsin.
- © 2007 barbara
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Two kinds of shadows today. The first, a shadowy tree trunk photo for Halloween. This is nearly the last autumn color left in my neck of the woods. (Sorry, bad pun!) Most of the color has changed into crunchy brown on the forest floor, but this clump of trees posed for an early morning shot today. Photographed at Owen Park, a Madison Conservation Park in Madison, Wisconsin.
Sadly, while I was hiking I saw two steam shovels leveling land for a subdivision 100 yards from the trail. They cast the second shadow, a shadow on my spirit. Soon we’ll have nothing left to conserve but concrete. Go, progress! (Go away, that is.)
© 2007 barbara
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“Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On a calm, misty morning, these autumn colors were reflected in Indian Lake. Photographed at Indian Lake County Park in Dane County, Wisconsin as the sun peeked over the hill. October 20, 2007
© 2007 barbara
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ~Christopher Morley
Photo taken at Devil’s Lake State Park near Baraboo, Wisconsin on a perfect late October day
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Deep blue lake trapping
Reflection in calm waters
Double yellow orbs
Just after sunrise on a calm mid-October morning at Indian Lake County Park in Dane County, Wisconsin
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Yellow maple leaves
Crunching and browning on road
Stone wall gently curves
A perfect late October day for a road trip to Devil’s Lake State Park near Baraboo, Wisconsin. Autumn color is at peak and yellows and oranges stretch from forest floor to sky along North Shore Drive
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