Author: Joanne
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Defamiliarizing Nature: An Artistic Lakeside View
This new image – of a lakeside – is possibly the most extreme among the Visions of Nature series. This series explores images modified to reflect Schklovsky’s concept of defamiliarization (Russian: Ostranenie) which posits that the purpose of art is to render the familiar as unfamiliar in order to inspire new ways of seeing, fresh perspectives on the…
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Lens-Artist Challenge #336 – Only One Picture
I hope I’m not too late to join in the Lens-Artist Challenge. LEYA has posted this week’s challenge: One picture. “One that you find important, meaningful to you, maybe sending a message – and then explain why you picked just that picture. It is not meant to be a ”favourite” picture of yours, not at…
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Contemporary Home 2 (New A.I.)
This is a new A.I. Generated image. Although produced initially in Midjourney, I have edited the image in Capture One (exposure, contrast, HDR). I’m continuing to experiment with Generative A.I. to produce images. In this case, I wanted a picture of a contemporary home with a significant natural element integrated.
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Grand Canyon at Sunset
This is the Grand Canyon, from the south rim, shot in a winter late afternoon. As the winter sun lowers toward sunset, the rich colors and astounding landscape of the Grand Canyon are revealed. Incoming snow is shown over the north rim at the center and the right of the photograph. This is an older…
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Early Morning Trees
The trees on this image have, to me, an almost mystical spiritual quality. This was shot in late winter. On a cold, almost indescribably clear morning, the sun had just come up. The sunlight was shining on these trees and giving all a golden hue.
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New Bedford Fishing Boats
The fishing boats here in port are part of the fleet at New Bedford, Massachusetts. New Bedford was the most important port in the whaling industry. Today, It is the number one commercial fishing fleet in the United States. In these photographs, I like the stark high-contrast back-and-white images showing the dense and complex rigging…
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Two New Monochrome Images
I have two new black-and-white photographs to share. The image above is a study of winter weeds. The photograph below was shotg in an old apple orchard. The orientation is funny. If I straighten the tree, the hillside gets bad. If I straighten the hillside, the tree bends to an absurd degree. So the picture…
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[Archive] The Creative Experience and Photographing Nature
Originally Posted February 2019 Why are those of us who photograph nature moved to do so? Undoubtedly because we like the images we produce – They are beautiful, dramatic, striking. But I want to suggest there is a broader creative experience involved. An artist I much admire is Guy Tal. Tal identifies himself as “Artist, Photographer,…
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[Archive] On Vision in Photography and Art
Originally Posted August 2019 What do we see when we look at a photograph or a work of art? For some time I have been influenced by the Twentieth Century Russian writer, Viktor Schklovsky (1893-1984), a prominent member of the Russian Formalist School of literary criticism. For Schklovsky, a purpose of art is to make…
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[Archive] On Art, Photography, and the Contemporary Age
Originally Posted July 2019 The New York Times today has an article featuring a panel of art people discussing and attempting to create a list of “the 25 works of art that define the contemporary age.” I find this article — and the exercise — highly problematic. The article notes the questionable exclusion of works…
