Who Else Wants Tea?

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

And God bless you all on the earth...

- Bruce Lee

red sparowes - As Each End Looms and Subsides

Sometimes, I use photography as a way to see familiar things as if I'm seeing them for the first time.

Dag Hammarskjöld

I've been experimenting with different ways of converting color images to black and white. Different methods and algorithms produce different aesthetic effects. The simple way, simply desaturating the color out of the image, tends to look bad. Here I used a color gradient, duplicated the layer, and overlaid it over itself with some transparency. The original image is from the Hubble Space Telescope. 

Why?

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This is a video created from a photography project I did in the summer of 2012, right after I graduated college and right before I started my working life in New York City. It was my last summer at home in Freehold, NJ. My objective was to create honest and genuine images of my family and my neighborhood. The first picture, of my mom, and the pictures of my sister and her daughter are my favorites. The later pictures are mostly of nature and things I saw while taking long walks around my neighborhood. I spent most of my high school years trying to get out of Freehold, and it was the first time I really appreciated the beauty of where I grew up. They get abstract because I used abstraction as a way of seeing familiar things differently. It was a good project; although the final product doesn't communicate to others what I feel when looking at the images, it was a worthwhile pursuit that succeeded in creating some pictures I think are really genuine and honest.

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A self portrait from two years ago. Playing with overlays in Pixlr Express. The effect makes it more obviously communicate what was meant in the first place.