Resting

As we had the place to ourselves the last couple of days I had the opportunity to work in my dim room. This is my latest Kallitype. It is about 7 x 8 inches on white Rising Stonehenge

Columns

St.Peters

Swiss Guards

Vatican City

Pratica di Mare

Warehouses

The port city Ostia consisted mostly of warehouses for storing the goods (grain, oil, wine, etc) waiting to be transported up the Via Ostiense to Rome.

Ostia Mosaics

Ostia Antica, Rome Italy

Volcano Cedar Cottage

Easter Kids

From left to right, Adrian, Clara, Louisa, Julia, James.

Emile Danielson

Room interior photographs by Emile Danielson. Emile Danielson 1899-1965 was a very well known photographer working in the New York City area in the 1930’s. Besides being a fine art photographer she made her living as a commercial photographer. She worked for several of the major furniture stores and department stores in the New York area and was commissioned to photograph the interiors of famous homes for magazines similar to Home Beautiful. These are 8x10 photographs on silver gelatin paper I would guess done with a view camera. I have a large collection of these. I will be selling a few on ebay.

Phantom Cruise Ship

The Cruise Ship Miracle. The previous night from when this photograph was taken the bay was empty. In the distance we could see and hear the brightly lighted “party barge” Folks dancing, singing, eating having a wonderful time. But the rest of the bay was dark and empty. The next morning I got up early and looked out on the bay and what to my wondering eyes should appear? A cruise ship, just sitting there, bright white against the dark water. Where did it come from? How did it get there? Later in the afternoon, after I awoke from my nap, it was gone. Not a trace. Very strange.

A Big Banyan

Kailua-Kona. On my early morning walk to the Hula Bean to get a cup of Kona coffee.

Painted Church Crypt

Waiting in certain hope. Happy Easter

Scandinavians Need Not Worry

Yes you can get the real deal Scandinavian Shaved Ice right here in Kailua-Kona. That will take a load off your mind.

Cruise Ships At Kailua-Kona

A view from the balcony of our hotel room.

Painted Church Altar

Carl see the posts. The painting on the back wall makes the church look much bigger than it is. The altar is the back wall of the church. There is a name for that kind of painting technique but I can't remember it right now.

A closer view


Looking out at the entrance

Painted Church Interior (cont)

Painted Church Interior (cont)

The Temptation Of Jesus. I had a hard time getting these shots framed square as there are posts in front of every painting so I had to kind of shoot around them.

Painted Church Interior

The Painted Church

Exterior shot

St. Benedict's Catholic Church

Also known as the painted church because of the fresco like painted walls and ceiling.
Built in 1875 it is the oldest Catholic church on the island. For a few years it was Father Damien's parish. Between 1899 and 1904 Father John Velge painted the interior.

Kailua-Kona

We took a short trip, 95 miles to Kailua-Kona. Two cruise ships in port. One from Southhampton England. These folks are on a 2 1/2 month around the world cruise, all three thousand of them. This is a very old, very large banyan tree.

The Forum

Rome, Italy

Statue With Sword

I used to know who this represents but I have forgotten. Does anybody recognize this cheerful chap?

Farmhouse Window

Pometzia, Italy

Widows in Black

Segni, Italy

Pratica de Mare

Street scene

Rocco di Papa

Early morning.

Lady With A Cat

Castello Di Giulio II

Built by Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere between the years 1471 and 1486. In 1503 Cardinal della Rovere was elected Pope. He chose the name Julius II as a reminiscence to Julius Caesar. Want to see more? Go here. http://members.tripod.com/romeartlover/Ostia.html

Cruise Ship Interior

My Pentax 645 did not have image stabilization.Drat!

Mission Interior (cont)

Mission San Antonio

Spinning Wheel

Mission San Antonio

Alaska Waterfalls

Fords Point

Peacock

Accidents sometimes make for interesting results. Sunday my daughter Jennifer and I were driving through the little town of Pahala. We drove to a lovely Buddhist temple that Jennifer and Angelo like to visit. There was a service in progress so out of respect I resisted taking pictures of the temple. But there were several very tame peacocks hanging out. I can't resist photographing them when ever I come upon one. So, seven quick shots and we were on our way home. I didn't even pixel peep. When I got home and downloaded the shots all I got were black squares. Somehow the camera setting was on manual instead of automatic. I had very seriously underexposed all seven shots. Using Photoshop and Camera Raw I was able to get an image. It is very strange looking, lots of grain. I like it, reminds me of a tapestry. It is about 16 by 9 inches. Click on it and you can see it bigger.

John Paul II

I we approach Easter my thoughts go back a couple of years to when I was in the RCIA process. My sponsor was Skip Driscoll and in a way of saying thanks for helping me I made this bromoil transfer for him. I scanned a small 2x3 inch carry-in-your-pocket card, made a big neg, made a matrix and then printed it on light gray watercolor paper with purple ink I mixed up.It is about 5x7 inches.

Upper Rainbow Falls B&W

You say you want to see it in black and white? OK here you go. I have program that converts a color image in to a monochrome image that somewhat resembles what it would have looked like if I would have shot it with TriX. This is 16 x 10.5 inches. Click on the image to see it bigger.

Upper Rainbow Falls

I shot this with a 50mm f1.4 Pentax A lens.

Victory

One of my very early bromoil transfers. It is about 6x9 inches printed on Arches 300 lb watercolor paper with black lithographic ink.

Leonard Misonne

Leonard Misonne, Belgian, 1870-1943 is my favorite pictorialist. This print is listed on Ebay with a starting bid of $2000. It is described as a 16 x 20 inch carbon print which means it is a Fresson print which was his process of choice. He loved to make pictures in stormy weather and those that know say he never ventured more than a couple of miles from his house. By the way I will not be bidding on this so it is all yours.

Ti at Boiling Pots

Ti pronounced like Tea is a very common native plant here on the big island. You can find it in many sizes and colors.

Boiling Pots Falls

We have had a lot of rain the last couple of weeks. It has let up a bit now and one morning dawned somewhat clear. I grabbed my camera and headed to downtown Hilo to check out Rainbow Falls and Boiling Pots. A lot of water moving down the Wailoa river. The early morning sun from behind me helped by getting light into the shadows. I printed this 16 x 10.5 inches on Somerset Enhanced.

Anthuriums cont #3

The flower farm where these anthuriums are grown is Mountain View Anthuriums. It is about 2200 feet above sea level. Although anthuriums are grown all over this part of the big island the varieties are sensitive to temperature and amount of rainfall so the altitude of the farm determines what varieties do well. At 2200 feet they can grow the prized, Kozahara. It is a deep, deep red almost going to black.

Anthuriums cont #2

Red Obake. This one was about 10 inches long!

Anthuriums cont

They come in many beautiful colors. I really like the white varieties.

Anthuriums

Not everybody knows what they are.They are a very unusual and beautiful kind of flower. They grow very well in this part of the big island. Our daughter and her husband and family grow them in Mountain View HI and ship them to the U.S. mainland and Canada. I love them. I am going to show you a few. This first one is a Pink Obake.

A Very Handsome Poodle

Caffe, 1960's