2020 Photo Calendar - PhotoTrice

Leaf In Four

This semi-abstract photomontage is an image of a plant in my garden. The source photo was composited with various textures then processed into a series of false color images. Sometimes the technique can produce beautiful results.

This particular image is no longer a photo the alterations are far too extensive. I’m not sure what category it fits other than perhaps graphic art.

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Engine 478

It goes without saying that some of the most spectacular scenery in America is found in Colorado. My favorite places are in the Southern part of the state which tends to have a little less tourist pressure that farther North.

Durango is a wonderful spot to visit summer and winter. It is loaded with restored nineteenth century buildings, great hotels and excellent food. Plus, there is the steam train that runs between Durango and Silverton. The train is special because it has to climb nearly three thousand feet in less than fifty miles to reach Silverton. That is a serious task for a steam locomotive.

The starting point for the train journey in Durango is in the middle of town. In fact if you choose the right hotel you can just about walk out of the lobby and right on to the train. Now that is convenience.

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2020 Photo Calendar No 4

Some people just catch your eye as a photographer. So it was with this man who was walking around Luckenbach striking poses for the tourists. I just had to take his picture. Here is what I wrote about an earlier version of the image in 2016.

The dime novel narrative surrounding my subject was already there, all I had to do was make it visible. The text is a combination of sentences I wrote myself and a paragraph from an actual dime novel, The Untamed by Max Brand, published around 1919. Max Brand is surely one of the great marketing names of the twentieth century. Of course given the context of his work it may well have been a reference to a permanent tattoo on a horse. No matter, it is a wonderful name for a western novelist.

The West we know from popular entertainment is a wild exaggeration of larger than life characters and their dastardly or heroic deeds. My subject personified many of those stereotypes at least in my mind. He made a turn of the century dime novel impression of rugged individualism with impeccable style cues.