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More digital infrared folded buildings. This one l

More digital infrared folded buildings. This one looked like a spaceship before I even started and took the pictures.
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Funny thing about digital infrared - bright sunny days are not so ideal for the colors I like. I do like this orange and purple combo, but want to get colors I got before.
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Gotta check the data.
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This is The National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown, PA - opened in 1955.

Many years ago I saw several photos in an exhibiti

Many years ago I saw several photos in an exhibition by Wendel White. His series titled Schools for the Colored had a real impact on me. The series documented the architecture of the segregated schools in the States. His photos show the architecture in its current state. There’s one in Trenton, NJ that I recognized. In his text the series is described as: The architecture and geography of America’s educational apartheid.
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I show his work to the students in my intro and advanced photo classes.
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With this in mind, I wanted to start a project along the lines of referencing his treatment to the images. The process that I find brilliant is isolating the building - but leaving in some power lines, some trees, metal things in the way (I call street furniture) - stuff that ordinarily might ruin the shot, but you have to accept that it is there - in the landscape of your subject matter.
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These are digital infrared images of the Church building in Harbourton Village, NJ - established in 1803.
The mirroring is to simply alter the reality of the architecture.
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I have a lot more on the way that look like spaceships.

Last one. . It said white smoke on the canister. S

Last one.
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It said white smoke on the canister. So if you buy white - it might be yellow.
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Happy Halloween.
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Stay safe.

This is the purple one. I overcooked it in the vid

This is the purple one.
I overcooked it in the video program a bit.

Ever wonder what would happen if you chuck a smoke

Ever wonder what would happen if you chuck a smoke canister into a pumpkin?
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I got you.
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Been wanting to test this out for ages - ever since I saw another photographer post a tutorial.

Like Folklore, Myths and Legends? Miss the sound o

Like Folklore, Myths and Legends? Miss the sound of my voice, and my sister’s voice? Check out our podcasts - AND - look at @creativeasfolk for folklore related images.
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Special thanks to Frank at New Pod City, Trenton, NJ.
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#podcast
#folkloremythslegends
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Link in bio.

Check out this hoard I dug out of a semi-toxic ind

Check out this hoard I dug out of a semi-toxic industrial dump a few weeks back.
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If anyone knows what the metal thing is, or anything about the pyramid etched on that ceramic cone - LMK.
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Also attached a diagram for you orderly treasure hunters - AND - a picture of me with the C-Scope IB100 my Dad bought in the ‘70s.
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Still works.
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#pioneerdads
#cscope
#metaldetecting
#mudlarking

BETTER HOMES, 2020. . I'll be the first to admit t

BETTER HOMES, 2020.
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I'll be the first to admit that I've become rather unraveled from being stuck at home for this long. Attempting to process scenarios of the future. The uncertainty. So I made some art.
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This series of photographs was created to mirror a project I asked my students to work on titled 'The Library of Ordinary Objects'. So far, they have produced remarkable work with only being able to work in two spaces - inside their house, and outside their house. .
I put a little box together of 'bits' - similar in scale and that had some meaning. I would figure out how to photograph these 'bits' to be my library. Looking for a background, I found this magazine 'Better Homes' from 1971 in my basement. 201 Time-tested recipes with a free bottle of Prell shampoo. The photography of the food is great, but the copy writing had to have been written by a legend.
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So, I did this project with little thought (not surprised) other than the bits and magazine. I'd open up the magazine at a random page take some of bits, lay them out and then take the picture. If I started to think into what I was doing the combo didn't feel right or work in a way that other ones did. I just placed bits on the page and then nudged them about - but that was it.
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Here's the list of titles:
01. Prell Ad, spoon, ice pick
02. Cobb Salad with Chewbacca, fanta lid, praying hands
03. Vegetable Classics with Queen Elizabeth II, foot, paintbrush
04. Man-Sized Sandwiches with pencil, post, pepsi, key, pickle fork
05. Red Devil with C-3PO, boing, squirt
06. Plump Crusty with McDonald's ash try, buttons, vampire teeth
07. Shimmering Super Salad with guitar pick, 4, oyster shell, coke
08. Raspberry Bomb with battery, button, soldier, vampire teeth
09. Velvet Smooth Lemon with Atari air freshener, spoon, lid
10. Great Looking Hair with E.T, earring and C-3PO
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I noticed a lot more food pictures I really like so I'll probably have another go at it.
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DM me if you'd like buy one. Look great in the kitchen.
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Special thx to @fuckadvertisements for inspiration and @jerrysaltz for his book How To Be An Artist. Keeping me going.

Digital infrared Christmas Trees! What next? . Tuc

Digital infrared Christmas Trees! What next?
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Tuckamony Farm is one of the oldest family-run Christmas tree farms in the country.
Even if you have your tree sorted out there’s a pop-up shop (open weekends 'til Dec 22nd 10-5) with some awesome gifts by:
@laurenjohnsonart
@mayfield_at_1000autumns
@bodiechewning
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What I have learned.
Underexpose the digital infrared by a stop or two.
Use a split tone filter on the lens.
Don’t bother to process, or over-process the image.
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The blue images at the end are the intermediate step from digital capture to final channel swapped image.
Weird. So that’s what happens on the way.

Hey Art All Day was a lotta fun. . Thx for droppin

Hey Art All Day was a lotta fun.
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Thx for dropping by my studio and sitting for an experimental infrared portrait.
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I’m going to work on this batch a bit more. But this is a first go at processing for now.
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Thanks @artworkstrenton - Jolly Good.
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If you want your infrared portrait done let me know.
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#themysteriousworldofdigitalinfraredphotography

Now I know what the 'Days from Our Past’ is all

Now I know what the 'Days from Our Past’ is all about.
Only been driving by it for 15 years.
The good news, it’s on again in April.
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Washington’s Crossing Park.
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#infrareddigitalphotography
#tractors
#heavymetal

The mysterious world of infrared digital photograp

The mysterious world of infrared digital photography.
Taken in Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, New Jersey.
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#oceangrove
#asburypark

Nerd alert. I love stamps. John Lennon, Sesame Str

Nerd alert. I love stamps. John Lennon, Sesame Street, Ellsworth Kelly - all from my local post office - oh to be stamp designer - what great gig that’d be.

Future me: i’m gonna design packaging for fruit

Future me: i’m gonna design packaging for fruit and vegetables.
Milton Glaser: ...
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#fruitandvegetablepackingisthecoolest #giant

What a cool show in Frenchtown, NJ - The Hatch by

What a cool show in Frenchtown, NJ - The Hatch by ArtYard.
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Gettin’ the hang of digital infrared photography - slowly.

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