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Sometimes even words can’t redeem photography. Pretentiously arty.
Well, at least Jim didn’t like them, so that’s a start; Young Tom. They seem to capture a sense of place; or perhaps your vision of that place. Great colour / color. I’d like to know more about your technique Tom: your mix of still and motion. No link to a website Tom; I would like to see more. I like them both.
I can see this work being used as illustration for an editorial. Also poster and fine Art.
Best,
Mike.
http://hydeimages.com/blog/
yep – i like them both.. mainly because it is unusual to see landscapes which have an energy of movement about them.. i particularly like the tumble weed.. at first it looks like some kind of zoom-pulling in camera effect, although i think it is just slow shutter following the tumble weed going past..
tom?
love the shack in the background.. feeds my idea of the amercan
the words are okay for me.. lending explanation.. although i do not like the typeface..
now.. that’s fussy.
good one tom.. like them
david
pet•ri•fi•ca•tion (-f-kshn)
n.
1. A process of fossilization in which organic matter is replaced with non organic matter.
2. The state of being stunned or paralyzed with fear.
Interesting these two definitions, both take a living, possibly learning existence and immobilises it; possibly forever. Don’t be a dinosaur, roll with it ;-)
These are my favourite types of promotions on Burn, maybe not my favourite photographs, but always my favourite messages.
young tom–
i love the tumbleweed shot – it sucks me right into its vortex.
(was it made here in WA?)
and i really love your moody, somewhat apocalyptic style.
do you really chase them? the tumbleweeds?
now THAT’S a photo i’d pay to see. ;)
hope you’re well, dear,
k.
DAH,
You keep pulling it off on this place…
I’m mostly looking at the pictures… Not reading texts or comments too much… Burn works well like that as well..
Nice stuff Tom. Love the words.
Katia, I’m certain the photographer would gladly accept a check in appreciation of your enjoyment of the photo. :)
Odd panoramic pinhole vibe.
If the weed vortex ripple effect blur thing was not there i could probably go for this. Maybe.
even with the tilted tilt, and the blurred blur, and the colored color. It makes for kinda pretty shapes and patterns. And the light IS nice. But….
black sky rainbow shattered forest apocalypse Im not sure about. Maybe in front of a REALLY big print I might. Small and lonely here on the web I cant get in.
Like ‘em. Lively atmosphere. Landscape as living, temperamental entity. Wonderfully strange.
Love em!
i don’t get much time for reading & writing on-line…
but i do stop by when i can, look at images, see what’s going on.
i’m enjoying what’s happening here on Burn, it’s great to see how ‘road trip’ has evolved.
just wish i could clone myself and sit here all day and join in…
young tom,
had to drop a quick line on these two, so much EMOTION.
Love the way that rainbow strikes the ground…
thanks young tom and thanks dah
Now what a way to start the day!
Is that a book? It certainly looks like one. Love it!
young tom
just saw yer blog. un-fucking-believable stuff for my eyes.
love the pics (and NO, not because they’re kinetic or blurry). especially, LOVE the rolling tumbleweed and the lone, shorn building, for a number a reasons. when i first looked at the pic, my reaction was “what the fuck, a PS rotation/gaussian/spin blur” and then i realized that it wasn’t PS but the movement…Tom (i imagine) is running (a pan) shooting the tumbleweed and, god damn, he got it to hit target with this ghostly god-building-barn in the background…more over, the foreground (lower right) has a wicket dark shadow as if, through black magic, the building in the background has somehow cast a shadow of itself into the foreground…and all those dancing black figures around it…and that the spin and hurl of the sky matches the spin and wheel of the tumble weed…and the movement of the color from vermillion to navy blue to ochre to burnt sienna, all fractured through the light…i mean, it’s a wicked wicket photograph :))))….though i dont love the 2nd (rainbow) as much as tumbleweed pic, it still wonderful (the rainbow igniting the land) and matches pretty seemlessly with the top pics: the fever of land and nature….dig both for sure…
Now, a bit about the poems and the presentation here….
as a writer and as a photographer who writes with his pictures, i totally see the idea of words with pictures, my only suggestion for tom would be NOT to literalize. that is: both poems (i really really like the rainbow poem) are too ‘literal’ of the pics….as a writer, i never like this: i like language that augments pictures rather than descripes pictures, that act as collision or tension or a different river: the two-headed river, both running parallel and entwined. i love the idea of a book with poems and pics, but here, together, they seem too much to be linked to the pictures: make sense? In other words, for example, use these 2 poems, but do not attach them to the 2 pics, the tension becomes entirely different…make sense?…also, i always hated writing/poems next to photographs: i like them separate: Photo page, poem page, photo page, poem page, etc…so each stands alone and we (or at least eye) get the echo of both when im looking/reading the other…here, they both compete and explain each other…make sense??….and lastly, I WANT TO SEE PICTURES BIG!!!!…:)))
for me, i want pictures that i cant bite, touch, swim in…here, too small… i’ll take one of the poems as the Text, and give me a BIGGER picture to dream upon….make sense??….
i want to see that first picture LARGE…not small…
and i’d love to see more of the writing tom….send them to me, when you have time :))))
cheers
bob
why dont any of my posts post now???
i love this stuff. this is awesome. its personal… i cannot wait to see more. this is so great! tom will there be more of this? is this part of a series? i really do enjoy this work. its very good. funny how i live in the same sort of setting and i see things so differently here… i LOVE it!
test test….why dont my comments appear??
I agree with Stelios. Beautiful…ethereal…art made from what you see. The blog is great. Thanks for sharing what you see, Tom, and for the unique way in which your eyes ingest a subject and roll it over consciousness; your interpretation of what you see and experience is very unique, and I love it. I feel like the work is very personal…engaging.
Tom,
Nice to see some of your work up on Burn. Certainly captures the mood of time and place… winter to early spring in Washington. I can smell it, I can feel it. If as some suggest this is the kernel of a longer series done in consistent fashion, that would be impressive. But maybe just these two are enough to suggest what is possible, and then the restless spirit moves on (like the tumbling tumbleweeds) to other fields?? I never saw tumbleweed west of the Cascades, so I assume this shot is in central or eastern Washington, while the rainbow shot screams western Washington. I was always fond of tumbleweed myself… while living in Japan I played banjo and guitar in a country-western band called the “Fumbling Stumbleweeds” and you can probably guess what our signature tune might have been. Over the last four decades I’ve noticed less and less tumbleweed as the Columbia Basin has become ever more settled, fenced in, paved, gentrified, and agri-business managed… nice to see some is still there.
At first I wasn’t crazy about all that white space around the pictures… I am no fan of white mattes or wide white borders… but I realize many people like to mount their pictures this way, and after looking at yours for about ten minutes my initial reaction was somewhat mollified. To David Bowen I can only ask, if you don’t like this typeface, what would be better?
Tom, I hope to see you soon!
Cheers,
My first thought after the exciting razzle dazzle moment of color and motion was that I wanted to see these in real size..huge, wrap around the room so i could step into their spaces ..then I realized that I wanted to see what you saw, to be there myself..which is probably the exact reason that photography appealed to me when I was young..certain photographers / photos have the ability to create a response in the viewer to LIVE!
this form of presentation doesn’t work for me, especially not online. sorry.
why don’t my comments appear ….is there a interface with different browsers we need to know about…
RIGHT ON
bravo
loves it
great
sexy ( weed )
awesome
nothing “pretentious” about it Jim!!????????!!
light
heavy
lonely
( damn… i think i started writing like Wendy today…:)))))))))))))
Is anyone starting to wonder if David would go so far to promote a selectively coloured image ;-)
Is anyone starting to wonder if David would go so far to promote a selectively coloured image ;-)
At least heavily photoshopped. The first image looks almost like a composite.
joe – like this one :o)
http://www.burnmagazine.org/photographs/2009/01/china-train-by-mark-unrau/#comments
jim – i think the photo above is only in camera created apart from the burning in..
TOM
any more details on the process.. migth have missed it above if you have already.. feeding baby, editing and typing one handed and so have not had a chance to read all.
:o0
david
Jim Powers
March 18, 2009 at 10:04 am
At least heavily photoshopped.
Soooooooooooooooooooooo????????????
Well, panos. There are images and there are photos. I tend to like photos better.
jim.
you have so many boxes to put things into.. what about photoshoped work where it’s difficult to see if it is actually composite or not?
is it a ‘photo’ if you are unable to recognise the photoshop process?
tooooo many rules in your mind..
david
What always concerns me is using words with common meaning without explaining that you’ve changed the meaning. Hold up a perfect composite and tell most folks that it’s a photo and they are going to think it was taken in one shot in a camera and evaluate it that way. Heavily photoshopped or composited images are not photographs.
Panos
Soooooo?
——————
So, for exmaple,: I can’t tell if he played around, liked the result, or had something to say from the beginning and worked to express it. Why is the sky ink blue on one side of the rainbow, and not on the other side? Forgot to burn it? meant it?
…. Off for a few days ($$). Not, not in aboy bordello! ;-)
Jim….
Even if you dont use photoshop ( you are using some kind of editing program right? )..
it could be iphoto or iHoto or iLotto… or Microsoft kitchen 7.0…
or something right?
Even if you dont have an automatic dslr you have a film one right?
Even if you dent the virtual ( darkroom which today is photoshop ) you use a “dark room” right?
You manipulate chemicals , right?
you dodge and burn right?
you use your little fingers to play with the light , right?
What is your problem with a “modern” way to manipulate … too INTIMIDATING..RIGHT???????
well my friend stop being a lier…
JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO OLD TO USE photoshop and you are missing your old ways,
doesnt mean its thaT different my friend…
When you use your old manual camera… you close or open the aperture..
you overexpose & underexpose regularly…
PHOTOGRAPHY ( in greek ) means writing with the light…play…manipulate so to give us your “vision”..
I know you said numerous times that YOU in particular have no VISION…
BUT LET tom and me and others to have a vision… Allow us please…
You can leave your camera on a tripod and shoot… We do not like that…
You are LAZY…JIM…SUPER DUPER LAZY..
YOU are intimidated by that new “PENCIL” OR “PEN” that is called photoshop or aperture pr Lightroom…
and you PRETEND YOU ARE A PURIST…
just because YOU CANT DRIVE A CAR… driving is “wrong”..
just because your “liver” is yellow… drinking is “wrong”..
just because “viagra” doesnt do the trick then sex is “wrong”????????
You have been revealed Jim… You are the definition of you cant teach an old dog new tricks..
You are that OLD DOG Jim…
you want to play with all those “HARD WORKERS” over here but you are the LAZIEST old guy i have ever met…
And you were also OLD even when you were 20 years old…
Nothing wrong with a teenager that suffers from dementia and uncured LAZINESS…
THATS why your work is blunt and boring….
Because you are all about LAZINESS… ZOOM OUT AND CRAWL AWAY…jim…
Im tired “bailing you out” over here man…
its disrespect for the hard workers…
keep being lazy, but STOP PROMOTING IT…ENOUGH…
hERVE,
did you like the picture, OR NOT man…
thats all it counts… yes or no????????/
Would you like the photo “more”… if it was no photoshop?
get a grip…god damn it!
panos, that particular image would not exist if it weren’t for photoshop.
panos, I’ve been using Photoshop since version 1.0. I have no problem with Photoshop. I have a problem, though, with calling images “created” in photoshop “photos.”
But, the author of these images has not called them photos. So it would interesting to hear his take.
I see these as a book of postcard-sized images with your original poems on each. The theme would be “place” and that would be where you live. The presentation works for me, including the font and large white borders around the image/words. You are a poet in word & image, Tom, and here you’re blending the two. I encourage you to keep at it.
Patricia
Microsoft kitchen sounds like a nightmare…
I find the above pictures quite alright.
and I am a 100% film shooter.
but then again what do I know? I am not a photographer.
Beautiful beautiful photographs. I only wish I could see them bigger, much much bigger. Personally the poetry doesn’t do much for me – the photos are such poetry themselves. They make me wish I was in them (esp right now in gloomy Seattle), bring out the child in me.
Photoshopped? Isn’t just about every photo one sees these days photoshopped in one way or another, whether taken with film or digital? That’s like looking at the work of Walker Evans or Cartier Bresson or Salgado or Eugene Smith and ad naseum and saying “Looks like it’s been ‘darkroomed’ to me. That won’t do….” What a piece of work….
Oh, and I forgot. The first one especially reminds me of one of my favorite films, Days Of Heaven by Terence Malick. Same mood as the cinematography.
I like these shots, the photoshop thing does not bother me.
yes….. CHARLES……….
EXACTLY…
Imagine “Experts” like myself and Jim sitting down,
talking like that…
ohhhhh..fuck salgado….”too darkroomed” for me…
ohhhhhh… Hey Bresson.. dont you think you used a little extra rodinol this time motherfucker…
or calling DAH… hey cheater… how did you get that black ??? You “pushed” your fucking Tri-X again?????????????????///
JOE…
i have not received a selectively colored image here…but, if i did , i certainly would “go so far” as to publish…or at least would not exclude because of the technique…when you visit my home you will see that i truly appreciate all types of photography for all kinds of reasons…
wishing we meet in late June in London…will have details for you soonest…
cheers, david
This is beautiful, Tom. Beautiful. You have 2 rainbows in there.
First one kills. Second one nails the coffin.
Always been a fan of your work as you know Tom. Love the first image. Great movement and mood. We never did sort out that print exchange did we!!
As for the Photoshop (JIM) My guess is that Tom has just underexposed these shots and then pulled out the highlights and mids during toning. If this is the case I wouldn’t really deem this “photoshopping,” people have been doing that shit since the early darkroom days… Could be wrong though, could be wrong…
hmmm… i’m getting reallllly good at eating my shoe these days David :-(
BTW, i’m really looking forward to the London meet-up, i have already starting keeping that period of time clear for some flexibility of travel.
Jim Powers,
“I have a problem, though, with calling images “created” in photoshop “photos.””
Adjusting saturation, tone curve, and adding some vignetting is a sin in your book? all images on your site have that except vignettes.
How wide your lens opens, Jim?
Where is bob?
FWIW – I consider myself a PS purist and can tell you that my old negatives and PS were meant for each other.
Haik, what are you talking about?