"AN UNEXPECTED HYGIENIC PORTRAIT"

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07.23.2021

-- “The Backstory”

-- Vinnie Scarano wanted to take some images of me working with one of the Large Format cameras.

-- The ones that I use to document the buildings in, and around New London, a project that he is working on for the magazine.

-- The model and the subject was the 4x5 and its owner,

-- The camera was really just a “prop” at this point, and it was aimed at a convenient building nearby that Vinnie and I were both more than familiar with.

-- The light wa
s aimed toward the camera.

-- The camera and I were aimed toward the sun.

-- I hid it the best that I could behind the backlit Hygienic itself.

-- I even, unintentionally, included part of my “support” vehicle on the left side.

-- Probably the 105mm lens would have been a better choice…

-- But it really didn’t matter…

-- For that matter, up until I opened up the film holder, I wasn’t even sure there was any film in it.

-- And that really didn’t matter either…

-- So that’s the story.

-- Mostly…

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 “A DIFFERENT PICTURE”

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(This image is #17 in "Passing-By" and the "ink Magazine" article.)

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10.15.2021

“A DIFFERENT PICTURE”

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  Nancy LaMar-Rodgers September issue of “ink Magazine”  provided a great article about my work and it served as the anchor of the 6 pages

that she, and photographer Vinnie Scarano put together. Thank you both.

  Curiously, however, the photo editor may really not have read the article itself.

  Nancy’s job tied together what I was trying to do with my images with her interview and so I

couldn’t post some images that are (in my opinion) more appropriate for my book “Passing-By”.

  At first, I thought about quoting Nancy’s article in length and insert what I thought were more

appropriate photographs.

  But I’m sure I would have run head-on into copyright and law problems.  I’m sure quote-marks

only cover things just so far.

  My goal here is to expand and illuminate this article not rewrite it.

To that end, I’m recommending that any person interesting in this refers to the September issue

of “ink Magazine” pages 68 -74.     (https://issuu.com/inkpublications/docs/ink_magazine_-_september_2021_2)

  My little book “Passing-By” will be out publicly in a couple of weeks. 

  Lest there be any real replication between the book and this pamphlet I’ve put up, here,

photographs that are not in the book.

  The intro picture (Coming In To The Yards) is the only image that shows up in all three places. 

  With that, I’m suggesting 11 photographs that might work with Nancy's article but

are a bit more keyed to her text.

  But, who knows, one often isn’t the best judge of their own work in the real world.

35mm test image of the New London train station.

The crossing at the foot of State Street in New London.

A Shore Line East coach in the morning.

The Strouse, Adler Co. sign near State Street Station in New Haven.

Waiting on Track Twelve.

The tubes to the waiting room; New Haven Station.

Morgenzeitungen, the daily dance.

Passing on the platform. New Haven.

Crossing the Housatonic in Bridgeport.

Home again, New London.

All images are by G. Roger Clements and were recorded on 35mm film.

Also... these images have also not been "cleaned up" since they will not go much anywhere and so I left the lint where it was. 

"WANDERING PHOTOGRAPHIC NORWICH"

 “CONVERGENCE”

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07.07.2021

-- Since I didn’t have the PC lens with me, the best thing I could do was to get as high up as I could conveniently.

-- Another advantage was that it was cool in the shade,

-- Which is not what it was in the sun.

-- This picture was a compromise between getting the verticals right and cropping the top off the spire

-- Or, to live with a little distortion.

-- I went with a bit of tilting the lens up.

-- Leaving the rebate in place.

-- Post-production warped pixels are a painful thing...

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-- I've made some more pictures involving this unique wonderful Beaux-Arts City Hall.

The front steps and portico at the front of the building.

The lamp posts are on the West side of the building.

The latter dates back some time and I caught it just as the sun is softly hiding below the top of the hill on the left.

By the way, I had the steps of the old Otis Library to help to raise myself for this picture.

All of these were taken with a Nikon F2 and with either Eastman or Ilford film.

A MONDAY RANT

UNION PARK ON A SULTRY DAY

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-- There are three images here

-- (Not my normal)

-- But I’m trying to illustrate a point here.

-- The first image is an oblique image of some wonderful old houses on Crossway Street in Norwich

-- Backed up by an unfeeling pile of brick on Broadway.

-- It ruins my image, it depresses the neighbor.

-- What did the Architect think he was really doing.??

-- Did he think that this flaw would ad interest to the model like a gap in its teeth.

-- Not in my opinion...

-- Exhibit “B” is a picture of this Pile of Bricks at #177

-- And next to it is Exhibit “C” to the south of it trying, nobly, to keep its head up.

-- I hope #176 gets a reduced tax rate for having had its property devalued by its neighbor.

-- Unfortunately, so many architects and builders think only of themselves and so often forget that a building has a responsibility to its neighborhood not just to the bank.

-- OK end of rant, for today 

-- But don’t think it’s not on my mind every day…

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#177 Broadway

#176 Broadway

 

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“BACKS OF THREE SIGNALS AT SPEED” 

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From my upcoming small book "Passing-By" which will be out in a few weeks.

As I toggle by this group of signal lights the background appears to move by my relatively stationary target. I was fascinated in having to see the view of the backs of these lights that we so often see the fronts. The speed and my proximity to the targets give a bit of an X-ray effect as you can see the building behind the signal.

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