Winter Travels

Lots to report from the winter break. I visited the fam in Atlanta, visited the fam in Detroit, spent new year's eve in Amsterdam and ended the break with a trip to Seattle.  Hopefully all that travel will keep the urge to get on a plane at bay for a while.  

First things first, here's a camel in my kitchen window.

Baking with grandma

Before

After

A cat

Cleo turned two and discovered her destiny as a tennis star

A quick trip to Amsterdam for new year's eve.

It snowed in Maryland, Hallelujah!

 And finally a trip to Seattle where good friend and local art star Matt Klos had an exhibition opening.  I was given strict instructions to document the trip so Kat, these are for you. 

We happened to be staying in the same neighborhood that Kurt Cobain lived and ultimately died.  This was the house where he killed himself.  

There is a small park next to the house where a couple of benches serve as memorials.

The show at Prographica Gallery

Matt hanging out with venerable painter and gallery owner Norman Lundin.

Apparenetly Matt has a decent fan base in the Pacific Northwest.

Norman was kind enough to let us stay at the apartment next to the gallery, which was nothing short of spectacular!

 Good people and good beer after the show!

That's it for this post.

Bring on the spring semester!

 

 

 

 

Mixed Light: Pictures from the Fall

Proof that Todd Forsgren is a barn photographer

My birthday, 1946. Found inside an old copy of The Prophet 

 And last but not least...CLEO!!!

 

EUROPA

In this the month that my old haunt Hapu Bar has closed its doors for good, I dedicate this post to my time in Europe.  I lived in Prague from the summer of 2000 to the Fall of 2002.  I took some better photos then the ones shown here but these are the images that conjure the magic of that era for me.  Pictured here are good friends and total strangers.  I miss them all!

      Lisbon, 2002

      The view of Prague from Letna, 2001ish

 

      Snow in Istanbul

      My father, Krakow, Poland - circa 2001

      Somewhere in Romania, 2000

 

Dum Diva

       Palace of Culture at night, Warsaw, Poland

      A recent picture of my nieces, Luisa & Matilda seems like a good place to end.

Praha RGB

Hello peeps, This month's blog post is the result of an experiment I began in Prague over the summer.  I had been wanting to try out the RGB method for making color images out of black & white negatives since I read about it some time ago.  It's something I plan on incorporating in the color photography class, which as of right now is entirely analog.  

The way this process works, briefly, is that you shoot three shots of a particular scene, one with a red filter, one with a green filter and one with blue (RGB).  Then, in Photoshop you convert each image to its complimentary color (CMY) and then sandwich them together to create a full color photograph.  The final images have this wonderful historic look, that is perfect for a city like Prague.  I also like the way the tourists are broken into single colors. They're everywhere in Prague so you have to do something with them!