Month June 2021

Ice Cubes

2021-04-10 Basement Archeology, 2021-05 Basement Archeology - Food, Dark, Glass, Household Item, Image type, Photography, Projects, Still life, Thing, Unsaturated

While I was taking pictures of some found glasses, I had a thought about using ice as a prop. The inter-play of light and shadow created various different shapes. For example, in the first one can see on the bottom…

Wild Leeks (Ramps)

2021-05 Basement Archeology - Food, Colorful, Content, Dark, Food, Leeks, Low Contrast, Person, Photography, Projects, Thing, Vegetable

“Allium tricoccum known as ramp, ramps, ramson, wild leek, wood leek, or wild garlic is a North American species of wild onion widespread across eastern Canada and the eastern United States. Many of the common English names for this plant…

Banana Fingers

2021-05 Basement Archeology - Food, Banana, Content, Dark, Food, Fruit, Image type, Photography, Projects, Still life, Thing

I am continuing on the theme of food, presented as a still life. Even though there are six bananas in each bunch, when I saw the image it reminded me of the fingers on a prone hand, which made me…

Apple, Apple and Banana

2021-05 Basement Archeology - Food, Apple, Content, Dark, Food, Fruit, Image type, Photography, Projects, Still life, Thing

As a means of managing the scope of my Basement Archeology project, and making the work a little more relatable, I’ve decided to narrow the focus along a food theme. This approach will allow me to contrast then and now.…

Light #3

2021-04-10 Basement Archeology, 2021-05 Basement Archeology - Food, 2021-09 Recipe Book, Art, Ashtray, Content, Dark, Image type, Light Painting, Other, Photography, Projects, Still life, Thing, Unsaturated

This is a redo of a photograph I made earlier. Comparing the two offers a sense of the difference light makes. To restate what I said before, this ashtray was from my grandfather; he enjoyed a big cigar. In the…