Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

New Years, Old Years Black and White

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Well it is another 365 days and the world spins. I’m spinning back to an old image of my favorite Muse ever. This from our last session in Westerly RI. from the Layered Life Series. Many have seen this before? It is film it was back in the day’s of inspiration. Lately I’ve been reviewing the 1000s of images I have made and want to print. “Every Image You Make is a Self Portrait.” I look through the digital images I have made and don’t feel that connection. Oh well maybe in the new year? See you all in 2013 less frequently, for I will be posting from the Lib. as having cable internet is just too expensive for the return. Here’s to the New Year same as the old year. enjoy pjc

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Below the Falls Mansfield Hollow B+W Film

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Nikon F-1971 1999 at Mansfield Hollow Dam. Jump forward a couple years and I brought this image in to the class I was teaching at New London Adult Ed. It was one of the images I used to lead the discussion on contrast. Everyone wanted to know how I did it? How long did it take? Few asked about post process but it was 2001 so my class was filled mostly with film people. My answer was 1/125 second, most chuckled and said really? I explained that I knew where the light was time of day and went there found my spot and shot 1 or 2 images this one printed easily in the darkroom probably took less time than scanning and adjusting the scan to meet the quality of the print. My PS Elements 10 wanted a color profile for everything is color and many of the functions in post process don’t work in gray scale [B+W]. Black and White prints are not about color they are an emotional visual poetry. No artificial emotion in my PS. and no edge like film. enjoy pjc

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Contact me if you want a print of in stock photographs. Mostly 8×10 FREE or by what you can afford got to open up file space for new prints.

My work can be seen at these two galleries in December, “Blizzard Group Show at Gallery At the Wauregan and PhotoSynthesis Members Show or contact me Many inexpensive prints for gifts or January shredder

Infrastructure, Restorations Urban Renewal or Sound Bytes?

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LLUP Which way? Is it crumbling or being rebuilt? There is no certain answer. Truth is truth or a lie told so often it is taken for the truth. Reality and perception collide at a blinding rate tweeted moments after an event every picture tells many stories. Every image is a self portrait but which way to lluP is the question left unanswered. Busy with consuming we have few breaks to think, too much distraction keeps us from thinking above the gadget acquisition. Click like or put it in your status and you have done your part. You’ve delluP but which way? Like the elf shitting chocolate kisses on cookies a clever marketing photo that was cute and we all shared. Sales are up. Maybe the most clever I know of was the Wild Turkey showing up at the White House Rose garden during a press conference a few years back. This “Wild Turkey” garnered 3-5 minutes of coverage on all networks evening news. All the papers pictured this “Wild Turkey” and on the next day again all networks and publications were talking about this “Wild Turkey” who was not wild at all just a very clever prop from Wild Turkey marketing person delluP it off. Throwing the “Wild Turkey” over the wall. Well this has become an old time rambling post. There may be some truth, certainly perception. But perhaps one of the avenues I’ve offered here will distract you for a moment to think about which way you are gnilluP. enjoy pjc

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My work can be seen at these two galleries in December, “Blizzard Group Show at Gallery At the Wauregan and PhotoSynthesis Members Show