Snowflake #15

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dancer, macro, Oregon, photography, poetic, portland, radiating dendrites, snowflake, symetrey, words

Portland got a nice week of intermittent snow storms.
I got my macro gear setup to try and capture some of the little beauties.
They were hard to find and mostly melted, but this one lingered long enough to dance.

February 2018

 

New York City Night Vibrations

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energy, exchange, flow, light, light painting, lights, New York City, night, NYC, NYC Light, photography, Skyline, transfer, Vibration

streaming pulsing
drawn in as a magnet
trapped vibrations infinite

flows out/in

More in the vein: NYC Light

Mom’s Advent Wreath / Mandala –

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Advent, candles, christmas, crafts, creativity, Design, deutsche, festive, flower pettels, german, herbs, kranz, mandala, tradition, wreath

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This year’s Advent wreath, which this year my mom made, in our usual tradition – from sand and the dry but bright color of flowers and herbs.

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Happy 4th of Advent.

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Total Eclipse

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2017, arresting, awesome, corona, eclipse, energy, Full Moon, halting, intense, jagged, light, moon, new moon, Pitch dark, poetic, reflection, scattered, solar eclipse, sun, Total Solar Eclipse, unexpected, void, words

Completely Unexpected
all prepared
Orb of light Pitch dark
suspended; below?
corona

part3

eclipsed

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2017, arresting, awesome, eclipse, energy, halting, intense, jagged, light, light painting, poetic, reflection, scattered, surprised, surprising, Total Solar Eclipse, void, words

Surprising!
scattered energy
tumbling focus everywhere
attention grabbed and torn
absorbed into the black void

part2

Climate Spiral

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#ClimateSpiral, Alberta, altar, Climate spiral, Climatemarch, Flowers, heart, nature, portland, Project, sculpture, skulpture, spiral, spring, stawaproductions, works

This Climate Spiral, as I call the altar, is made on this day of the people’s climate march, toward the end of a week of solidarity.  It was inspired by hearing about the water blessings taking place in Washington DC before the day’s events begin.

I build this altar.  Recognizing that the earth is whole, and shall be fine.  Also recognizing that we are at choice, we can influence how quickly our planet changes and what will be lost.

Contemplate, make your choices, add your unique voice.

— more images at StawaProductions —

First Platinum Print!

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alternative processes, Black and White, cyanotype, hand made, Old Oak Up, palladium, platinum, printing, printmaking

A local photographer / printer shared his work-space with me the other-day and helped me make a Platinum print.  I used an

Infrared Journey Begins – Week one

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Alberta Park, Black and White, conversion, dream, Experiments, home, infrared, k100d, monochrome, Oregon, Pentax, photography, Sandy River, SFX filter, Surreal, trees, vision

Here are some images from my first week shooting IR ‘infrared’ Photographs (tech / how-to information below).  Portland has been cloudy mostly, so just shooting artificial light, around the block, and in the trees; not shooting much in full sun. I still haven’t settled on a processing method either.  Tell me what you think and leave your thoughts and start some discussion below!

Analogue Feel at Your Daily Photograph

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Adirondacks, Black and White, colden, dogwood, featured, flower, fort Vancouver, Lake Colden, large format, paper negative, Remember Colden, Rocky Falls, stone, wall, water falls, wood, Your Daily Photograph, yourdailyphotograph.com

To see my winning entry to the recent YourDailyPhotograph.com contest called An Analog World please visit: http://eepurl.com/b4Kv7b

This Selection of similar images are from fiber based silver gelatin paper negatives shot in a 4×5 wooden field camera.  They were wet processed, then inverted and adjusted digitally before creating digital a pigment print.

2014 Adventures – photography book

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book, catalogue, landscape, Mission: Wolf, nature, Needles, northwest, overview, photography, photography book, portland, Redwoods, Skamania, travel, TumTum, Utah

exciting!

This 60 page full color 8×10 hardcover volume is available direct to you for $49.99
(through Blurb at the link above, or contact me directly for a discout)

The journeys of 2014 kept Nicholas and his cameras mostly in the Northwest, and within the environs of Portland, Oregon – but that is for another time.  Here we see where he went, what he shared and explored.  The roads wind ever onward – to enchanted Oregon forests, deserts, and waterfalls.  And to Adirondack high peaks and snow at the beach.  I invite you to step in and enjoy where Nicholas’s eye takes you in these pages.

Should you desire a PDF version to print yourself, contact me and I can make one available.

 

into abstraction

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abstract, color, color field, curves, green, photography, red, round, shadow, Texture

– listen –

oh, Happy Valentine’s Day

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camelias, Flowers, heart, pink, portland, sculpture, skulpture, spring, valentine's day

Advent Wreath / Mandala –

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Advent, candles, christmas, crafts, creativity, Design, deutsche, festive, flower pettels, german, herbs, kranz, mandala, tradition, wreath

Advent, Advent, ein Lichtlein brennt.  

Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei, dann vier.  

Und dann steht das Christkindlein

– vor – der – Tür.

This year’s Advent wreath, which I make of sand and dried color, in continuation of Advent traditions …

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Niklastag Crafting

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Advent, christmas, crafts, creativity, decoration, festive, gathering, holiday, kinpu, niklastag, ornaments, strohsterne, tradition, winter

flow, fire, and festively friending.

A Bouquet of Goose Feathers

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black, bouquet, feathers, materials, Project, sculpture, Texture, wing

feathers! inspiration for another sculpture.
(see this – which happened last time)