a couple of weird photos

On fire!

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This following establishment had flames on it and used to administer tattoos. Seems to be a theme in Florida. I wanted to know where the bar was. Anyway, per usual, I did some tweaking. Three for the price of one. Here goes:

These are not the same. This one is sepia, for the record:

And, the colors, oh the colors:

When I started taking pictures, I used to have to spend hours in the darkroom getting the effects I get here in 5-10 minutes. They were trying to convince me that it was all so important that I learn all of that. I knew you could do all of this on the computer. No, they all said. Yes, I say.

Don’t get me started on getting crazy colors. Color infrared film with my out board light meter and red filters on the my camera. Good lord. Give me the computer any day of the week.

Some weird photos

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Some idiot once told me that I needed to take normal photos. As Lorimer Black says to Mr. Hogg in William Boyd’s book Armadillo “define normal.” As soon as someone defines normal to me, I’ll keep on taking these kinds of pictures. Fight the power!

Anyway, these are non-categorizable works of sheer genius. Me and Oscar Wilde — both of us. All we have to declare is our genius.

Feel the radiating genius from following photos:

Ok, yeah, you can actually kinda tell what this is. The moon, from my parent’s back porch.

What, pray tell, could this be?

Back-lit water from a fountain.

Here we have island of the lost baseball trophies:

This is another one of my pale imitations of the greats. Walker Evans would have made this into an icon. Me, yeah, well, hey, not exactly what you would call “iconic.”

I manipulated this one. Here is the original:

One more. Ok, this one isn’t that weird. This is a rotting disintegrated doric column from inside [fill in appropriate curse word here] subway:

About the last picture of the column. Don’t you care about me, New York City? Just when I grow to love you again, you gross me out with the subway.

People things, part II

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I still think the lack of people things comments are unwarranted, but here is an experiment I’ve done. I’ve taken photos already posted here, cropped the rest of the photo out and picked selected people in the photos and altered them. The sepia hides how grainy the photos are. These are not, repeat not, finished work. I just wanted to see what these people looked like close up and in their natural state, unposed and unaware they were being photographed.

Here goes with the results. Again, just throwing a couple of ideas out there. As with other photos on this thing, you gotta click on them for the full effect.

Weird and grainy I know, but there was something sort of scary about the guy’s expression:

I liked the old tyme feel of this one:

Completely, I repeat completely on the fence with this one. Half of me said “eh, boring portrait, but the other half said “something here intrigues me:

Ok, yeah, pixilated and totally weird looking, but this girl looks kind of ethereal to me:

This one also had a very strangely ethereal quality to me. I kept it in color because what was already there was very interesting:

Last, but not least, this that gave me the initial idea for this whole thing:

I know these are not the world’s best portraits, but I’m taking a stab at something a little bit different.