A woman faces a highly textured wall, her hands touching the wall but her head turned back to the lens. Natural sunlight is illuminating her through a high window in the kitchen.

"All young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death." ≈ #RolandBarthes
#EastCoastKin #monochromemonday #bnwphotography #MonotonePhotography #monochromephotography
"Light of Beaufain," 2004 #CanonA5 #DigitalPhoto

'Betzere,' from the 'Studio Beaufain' series of portraits of the models and muses who worked with me for 10 years in Charleston, South Carolina. This was shot in the sunroom of my Beaufain Street studio, up on the third floor, a wall of old Craftsman windows on three sides, with Colonial Lake just below. The light in the sunroom was incredible! The image is of a woman seated cross-legged, her arms crossed, almost entwined around her knees. This photograph was made with a little Canon A5 camera, one of the first digital cameras dating from 1995. I still have it, and plan to do a separate tier of photographs using it for "The Parkways Projects" on Patreon. It's up on Bluesky now @parkwaysprojects — by all means check it out! The core of the series is about the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Skyline Drive Parkways, Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah National Parks. There's many different layers to it, from the beginnings of all four NPS parks, its people, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the young men who built many of the classic timber-frame construction buildings. There will be many other related subjects, histories, stories and original archival photographs from the Open Parks Network, a collaboration between the National Park Service and Clemson University Library's Archives.

"Betzere," #DigitalCompositeImage from the 'Beaufain Studio' series 2003, Charleston SC. One of the best studios ever! #EastCoastKin #DigitalPhotograph #BlueskyPhotos
#Photography #CanonA5 #PortraitPhotography #Artsky

#MonochromeMonday #PostmodernArt #SciArt
#blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite

Two piñon pine cones, still attached to the tree although fully opened. This image, due to the light on that day made me hold this one close to my heart for years. I’m pretty sure this one was shot in New Mexico, but also a Moab location could be the case. The longshot would be Colorado. The year was 2001. I think I mentioned on another post of a Canon A5 shot the other day that for all its early archaic digital faults, it had really strong positives. This image is a great example of the heart core of that little Canon A5. It’s a great macro image collector, but functions with many of the same rich macro qualities; at the same time channeling a sort of 3D effect—the saturation, rich, dense detail also are hallmarks of it's capacity for making one's day if you pay attention, stayed attuned, & regard it's peculiarities well. In "The Parkways Projects," one of the tiers is built around my shooting square format with my iPhone, trying to emulate the geeky quality of the little kid I was when trying to take "serious snapshots" with the odd but cool Kodak Instamatic my parents gave me for Christmas 1963. I’d just turned nine years old. My father taught me much about how to shoot. But my enthusiasms often left me with blurry, sometimes double exposures. I’m experimenting with color sequencing to try to consistently replicate the funky far-distance range colors those Kodaks would yield up at times. I’ve just started thinking of the little A5 though in a similar retro manner as another tier of images for the Patreon page. For now, I’m concentrating on just trying to get up and running here on Bluesky, here at my broadband art modes account, but also a dedicated Parkways Projects site. It’s up now [ @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social ] but still looks a bit thin. Please bear with me, and follow me there as well if you will. I’ll have it populated soon!

"A clinging of piñon cones," #DigitalCompositeImage from a 2001 shot made in NM. #DigitalArt #DigitalPhotography
#BlueSkyArtShow #Scape #EastCoastKin #Landscape #PineCones #CanonA5 Please visit my "Parkways Projects" of you can! I'll be cranking it up this weekend 🦉💙🌞 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social

"Ars Fugis,"a Snake River span in #Idaho. It seems wistful now as we're in a national sea of fire now. #Layers of smoke & concrete spalling from the WPA era #bridge. From my SxSW series of #Photography & #DigitalCompositeImages

#Landscape #WildFires #FineArt #CanonA5 #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow

A waterlogged, Hurricane Hugo-killed Sweetgum trunk lies just underwater at the old natural spring just 60 yards from my roundhouse. The colors of the sky, azure, blue, and the green leaves immediately over my head are all in view in reflection of the dark water.

"Watercolors," #digitalphoto in the year 2000, at Sandy Grove, South Carolina near my home that year. I lived in the snow white Sandhills region of the state 17 years 🌙🌴 #BlueSkyArtShow #Layers

#EastCoastKin #DSLR #BlueSkyArt #Photography #FineArt #Landscape #Sandhills #SouthCarolina #CanonA5

2️⃣ This one go away from me today, as it's now a 17 layer #digitalcompositeimage from a rather thin shot made on a #CanonA5, one of the first digital cameras back in 1996. I has an odd quality to it, in that when shooting long view landscapes, it would default somehow to an eerie 3D effect. #RedRocks