8/8/24

12x12" inkjet print PROJECT: Picture Window /Window Pictures


 Picture Window / Window Pictures 
  A 12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT 

     Standing Figure in the Early Morning fog, South Meadow, viewed through our misted picture window     

Introduction
The image above was included in my most recently completed 12x12" inkjet print PROJECT entitled New Camera-Work Photographs  April 2024 - July 2024.  I am including it here, in this project as well, for two reasons: First, the image was made of and through our picture window (which looks out over a beautiful meadow with two ponds and bordered on its west side by an elegant tapering woods. Visit my 12x12" inkjet print Meadow PROJECT.)

The second reason the image appears in this project is because it reveals a just barely visible image of a headless human figure.  I have titled the image "Standing Figure in the Early Morning Fog, South Meadow . . ."  Back in 2017 I had photographed this same figure in three variations and published the images as a vertical sequence in the Last, 7th Part of my project in Homage to Alberto Giacometti, the great Italian visionary sculptor & painter.  (See the three images--in their 12x12" format--below:  Images #1, #2, #3.)

The Man Walking figure disappeared from our picture window after I completed the 2017 Giacometti project; but, to my great surprise, in July 2024 it unexpectedly reappeared again!, like a long lost friend, in the 12x12" inkjet print I had made of the image (above) and which appears below as this project's Image #4.   I had unknowingly photographed once again the Man Walking image which had existed as a latent image on our Picture Window!

The first three images in this project (presented immediately below) consist of revised 12x12" inkjet print versions of the three images I had first published (in their original, wider rectangular format) in the 7th Part of the 2017 Giacometti project.  

(Note: The series of three  images are presented below as a vertical sequence.  The     
  the image immediately below is identified as the first image in this project,  
and the top (third) photograph in the 3-image vertical sequence.  
Please view the sequence starting with the bottom image.)      

    
                   Project Image #1     12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                    
                                        Part 3 (top image) of a 3-part vertical sequence of photographs :                                     
                                      "Man Walking Into the Light beyond the Sky"                                          
  
                       
                   Project Image #2  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                                   
          Part 2 (middle image) of a 3-part vertical sequence of photographs:            
                  "Man Walking from Darkness Into Light In the Rain After the Storm"                       

                                    
       Project Image #3  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures            
                    Part 1 (bottom image) of a 3-part vertical sequence of photographs :                   
         "Man Walking Toward A Darkening Threatening Sky Before a Rain Storm"            
                                           from my project Homage to Alberto Giacometti, Part 7                                               
                
I am presenting here, below the commentary I had written in 2017 about the Man Walking triadic sequence published in Part 7 of my blog project Homage to Giacometti:

In the the first, bottom image of my Man Walking vertical sequence the figure is seen against a darkening, threatening sky, warning of a portending Storm.  The figure's body is chalky looking, reminding me of the plaster sculptures Giacometti created, though the walking figure's head is missing in my photographs.  

In the middle image of the triadic vertical sequence the Man Walking figure is walking in the rain, as if comforted by the fact of having "weathered the storm."  In this image the head seems to have dissolved into the light above the horizon line that divides the picture space between dark and light. The chalkiness of the figure seems more translucent in this image compared to the first, bottom image in the vertical sequence; and I sense that the figure is ascending out of darkness upward toward and into the lighter area of the photograph as if the figure has become a bridge which unites the dark and white spaces.  ~   The raindrops in the darker area of the image seem luminous, as if radiant with grace; the rain drops have reversed in tonality in the upper, lighter area of the image and appear as black shapes against the white sky.   

In the top image of this vertical sequence, the Man Walking figure appears to be ascending higher into the lighter tonalities at the top of the picture frame, as if there is another light beyond the light of the sky.  It seems to me, despite Giacometti's fear of death, his Walking Man had always been secretly longing to return to its Origin beyond this earthly plane.

Clearly I identify Giacometti with the walking figure and I identify with this vertical sequence of images as well.   Giacometti had feared death his entire life and now at last in this sequence of three images he has been able to rise above his fears and consciously surrender himself to his more luminous destiny.

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Back in 2017 the "Man Walking" figure appeared on our picture window one day while I was working on the Giacometti project.  A bird must have flown over our house and while in flight deposited some poop on the window.  To my great amazement back then the figurative image that appeared on the window was stunningly similar to one of Giacometti's most famous figurative motifs he had entitled The Walking Man The bird's spontaneous creative act which appeared on the outside surface of of our picture window seemed, to me, an act of grace--a gift from my Creative Process.  This meaningful event is a perfect example of synchronicity which I have always considered a crucial component of my Creative Process and what I now refer to as True, living Symbol.  

I have had many experiences of synchronicity, spontaneous meaningful revelations of seeing, conscious recognitions of a very special kind of meaning that is radiant with mystery and transformative power.  Carl Jung wrote with great interest about synchronicity in the later years of his life.  Essentially it is an experience in which one perceives as profoundly meaningful an event in time which conjoins an internal (psychic) image with its external, corresponding outer-world image counterpart.  Jung believed these experiences were revelations of what he called the Self, the psychological wholeness of a human being.  

After a few years of study and practice of Siddha Yoga, I came to recognize Jung's insights as being in perfect accord with the yogic teachings of what is called the Oneness of Being.  In other words, the experience of synchronicity is the revelation of what in certain yogic traditions is an interior spontaneous experience, called darshan, which is the revelatory vision of God, the divine Self, the Oneness of Being in outward (physical) appearances. 
  

                  
                     Project Image #4  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                            
           Standing Figure in the Early Morning Fog, South Meadow, viewed                   
                                                              through our misted picture window (with part of a bird's wing)                                                               
        
Regarding Image #4 (above), I remember taking the photograph in July 2024, with my digital camera but I did not consciously see the figure in the picture window or in my camera's viewing screen.*  The recognition came later, after I had made--and looked closely, carefully--at the 12x12" inkjet print.  I of course was surprised to see the figure again . . . and then I became even more surprised when I noticed that the "Walking" Figure I had photographed in 2017 was now no longer Walking . . . Walking Away from me.  The figure, now, is standing and (despite remaining headless) appears to be looking at me!  

(*Note: the figure must have been too difficult for me to see while photographing, given the soft morning light and the mist covering the window.  If you click on the image above and magnify it, the Man Walking figure can be easily seen in the very center of the square image).

This certainly was not the first time my camera had revealed things to me that had gone unseen (or had gone un-noticed consciously) at the time I had made an exposure in my camera.  Indeed, photography's ability to present, objectively, what is in front of the camera at the time of exposure, is indeed remarkable, and (obviously) continues to fascinate me today . . . in part because I so seldom ever intend to make a photograph that functions as a "Window on the World" (i.e., a document or record of the outer world appearances).  I am nearly always interested in making images that function for me as Symbols (what John Szarkowski referred to in his book as "Mirrors").  

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John Szarkowski, who served for many years as the Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, created an exhibition, and published a book in 1978, entitled Mirrors and Windows : American Photography since 1960 in which he tries to articulate the differences between photographs that describe the outer, apparent physical world and photographs that visually-poetically reflect the experience (the feelings or ideas) within the photographer which initiated the creation of a photographic image.  Szarkowski cited the work of Alfred Stieglitz and Minor White who themselves referred to this kind of photographic imagery as Equivalents.  As I have already stated, I prefer to call this kind of imagery Symbolic Photographs.  

(See the introductory texts I have written for my earlier three-part photography blog project Window Pictures for additional ideas related to my Window Photographs, etc.)

In the early 1970's, when I was a graduate student in photography at the University of New Mexico, I devoted my (required) MFA written thesis to the idea of the Symbolic PhotographCarl Jung was a major influence on my written thesis, especially his study of medieval alchemy, his work with archetypal images & what he called the Symbolic Image; and most importantly to me, personally, was his writings late in his life about the phenomenon known as synchronicity.  

After I completed my MFA work (in 1972) and began teaching photography at the college level and began introducing my thesis ideas about the Symbolic Photograph to my students, I gradually began to more fully and more consciously integrate these ideas into my own personal Creative Process as a photographer.  By the time I met Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, in the summer of 1987, I was able to see how my thesis ideas related in a meaningful way to the Siddha Yoga teachingsIndeed, what Jung was calling the Self and what in Siddha Yoga is called the Self were closely related to each other in meaning.  And most importantly, I was able to understand how the yogic teachings about grace, or Shakti (the creative power of the Universe) were deeply interconnected principles for me within the working framework of my own Creative Process in photography, and particularly in regards to the concept of synchronicity I had written about in my MFA thesis. 

Today I am fully aware and committed to the interconnectedness of my practices of Siddha Yoga and the creation and contemplation of photographs which function for me as True, living Symbols.  Indeed, both practices are mutually supportive of each other.  Thus my intention (from a yogic perspective) is to make photographs which give visual form to invisible formless realities (feelings, spirit, the divine presence); I strive to photograph intuitively--open heartedly--so that grace can be the "maker" of the images (rather than my ego or intellect) for grace manifests a transcendent kind of meaning that is beyond the human intellect and language.  Images radiant with grace open my heart and experientially place me in direct relation to the divine Self which (the yogic teachings say) dwells within me, as me.

Creating photographs that function for me as True, living Symbols is a yogic practice, a form of worship; in the act of creating images which conjoin corresponding interior images with their outer-world image counterparts, grace manifests an Imaginal Unitary reality, a state of being I identify as the Oneness of Being, which, in Siddha Yoga, is often referred to as the (divine) Self.


The Self is transcendent and immanent--beyond the universe, also within the universe.  This is why you can worship the form of God and the formlessness of God. ~ Through the form you reach the formlessness of God.  

The unity of the Self is not lost through becoming the universe.  Even though it fills the universe, it is not broken up into pieces.  The one great Energy [Chiti Shakti, grace] has become everything and flows through everyone and everything.
Both quotes by Gurumayi are from the SYDA Publication : Resonate with Stillness 

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Considering these yogic teachings in the light of this particular collection of photographs, I am exploring here the idea --the metaphor-- that a window pane (i.e., a piece of glass) is the Place where the interior world and the outside world meet and interface.  As you have already seen, and will see again and again in the photographs that follow, I am often drawn toward photographing the reflected image on the  surface of a window's pane of glass; and I am often drawn to photographing the traces of past events which have been deposited upon either side of a pane of glass (Images #1-#4 and Image #6) .  Often these traces, after some time, will become transformed or even disappear, and possibly become latent, such that the images reappear later if certain conditions occur that make the invisible image visible again.

(In years past, light coming through a camera's lens would create a latent image on a light sensitive emulsion that had been coated onto a piece of metal, then onto a pice of glass, then in modern times onto a sheet or roll of plastic.  When the exposed emulsion was developed in the prescribed chemicals, the latent image would become visible.  Similarly, today, a photosensor stores images of light in a digital camera.  When someone wants to see the images, a push of a button on the camera will present the stored images in the sensor upon the camera's back viewing screen or LCD monitor.)

(Another fascinating, related idea that I read about in a published article many years ago had to do with the 3-D holographic photograph which is produced with multiple laser beams [and no camera lens is involved].  If the holographic image was projected upon a piece of sensitized glass, then processed, and the piece of glass was shattered into hundreds of smaller pieces of glass, the original, whole, 3-D complete original image would be present within each separate small piece of shattered glass, and the image could be reproduced by passing laser beams through the broken piece of glass and projected upon some other viewing.)   

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Before moving on to the presentation of my Window Photographs I want to mention a few details.  ~  Every photograph you will see in this 12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT exists as a 12x12" inkjet print.  Many of the 12x12" images are revised versions of images that were first published on my blog, often in a wider rectangular format.  ~  I have divided the photographs into Two Parts.  ~  In the First Part I have presented only images made in our house or in the Meadow after we moved to Canandaigua, in 2008, in most cases photographs which involve the Picture Window in our house, but other windows in our house as well.  ~  The Part II collection of photographs includes window images I have made everywhere else in my world, including one made in a Rochester Bus in the early 1960's when I was a student of photography in Rochester, NY, and images made in Vermont, Milwaukee, Turkey, various Airports, and other places.   

Under each photograph there is a project Image # and in most cases a descriptive title of the image, including place names for the Part II images.  In some instances I have also added a few personal comments about an image and blog links where appropriate.  ~   Since I have already presented the first four images in this project (above),  I will be continuing, below, with Part I, and project Image #5.

A brief note about "How to Best View My Online Blog Images" 
If you are viewing this project on a desktop computer or a laptop, I encourage you to read my blog explanation regarding How to Best View My Online Blog Images.  In brief, click on the images once, then once again; this will (hopefully) enlarge the image and present it in a dark tonal environment at its maximum viewing quality in terms of image sharpness, luminance, tonal gradations, etc.  Once you have entered this alternate viewing space you can then use your zoom-in & zoom-out keyboard or menu options to adjust the image size, and darken or lighten your computer's screen brightness to suit your viewing preferences.   

           Part I (continued) 
A Collection of Picture Window Photographs and other 
window pictures made since 2008 in our house 
in Canandaigua, NY 

    
                     Image #5  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                            
                 View of the South Meadow & early morning fog through our Picture Window with a                       
                                                               bird ascending (with the smaller window to the left of the Picture Window).                                                                  

  
 Image #6  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures   
 Our Grandchildren's Golden hand prints & drawings on our picture window  
                   Each fall at a certain point in time, the light of the setting sun comes through the picture window                    
   at just the perfect angle to illuminate the otherwise invisible  (cave-like) drawings        
       our grandchildren leave on the window at Christmas-time.             

 
          Image #7  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures            
   Symmetrical photograph: "Blue Angel of Tears"  (Misted, teared Picture Window)       

                                           
                                 Image #8  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                             
                        Symmetrical Photograph                     
                   Reflection of Illuminated window curtains on the inside surface of the back deck glass sliding door                     
                       
            
              Image #9  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures   
              Early Morning fog, South Meadow, viewed through our misted picture window 
           with the snowflake decal and reflections of our front door entrance windows 
                
                                       
          Image #10  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures           
  Rain covered blob on the window screen to the left of our picture window   

       
       Image #11  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
      Our front door (opened) and the storm door window with a Christmas Wreath suspended from it

     
      Image #12  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
      Early Evening view of the South Meadow through our picture window with the moon and internal reflections

    
 Image #13  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
 Evening reflection of Lamp & plants in the window to the right of our picture window
        
     
                Image #14  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
                                                        Storm clouds--viewed through our picture window--over the South Meadow & pond                                            
                                                         (with internal reflections of our fire place)                                                  
               
                                      
                       Image #15  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures           
                                                        View from our back deck: two lamps and a reflection of a stormy sky on our rain-covered picture window                                                                     
                             
                                       Image #16  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                               
                                                                    An internal reflected image on our picture window of Gloria reading under a floor lamp                                                                                                                              
       
                                          Image #17  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                                   
                                         Wooden blue bird, golden lamp post & reflections in our picture window of two lamps and a basket                                   

                
      
                                  Image #18  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                          
                           Our Steamy Picture Window, with tomatoes ripening on its sill as the sun rises                                
                                           over the fog-covered North Meadow                                   

                       
                          Image #19  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures       
                               Bed post, lace curtain, opened window and shade 

                                  
       Image #20  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
                       Garage Door Window and Curtain              
     
                        
                              Image #21  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                     
                                                      Close-up view of Garage Window Curtain with an image of a house sewn into the curtain                                              
                                      
                                   
                    Image #22  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures         
                              Spider plant in bowl of water on our granite kitchen counter, with             
                                       warm light from the setting sun coming through our back windows                      
                                     
           
      Image #23  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
         Still Life: Squash on a piece of glass in front of our picture window   
              (I made this Still life picture for my Morandi inspired Still Life project.)        
                   
          
            Image #24  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
             Indoor Plant on a pedestal next to the sliding door to the back deck with an illuminated gate 

           
      Image #25  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
     Indoor plant by the front window in our office space  

            
         Image #26  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
             Basement window & plant and their shadows projected onto a wall      

                               
             
                      Image #27  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures            
                                           Rain and "tears" on our back deck sliding door & screen 

           
                   Image #27-A  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
                                            Snow Covered Picture Window Photograph (with snow covered Meadow paths in the background)                                 
                                   
                                                          
                        Image #28  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                     
                       Symmetrical Photograph - Reflections on our back deck's glass sliding door & screen                    
                                                  (Sometimes the symmetrical photographs generate a space that is inexplicable,                                            
                           simultaneously providing clues of familiar spaces in the world I inhabit                    
                               and totally surreal, surprising & unknown spaces-places as well.)                      

                                   
Image #29  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
                                                        "Two Birds: One soaring, One about to Land" Viewed through the sliding glass door to our back deck                                               
                                                       
                                                                    Image #30  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                                                                                                                    A plant looking out at the south Meadow through the steamed up window (left of the picture window)                                                                       
  
 Image #31  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
                                                                    A "Snail drawing" on the mist-covered window (to the right of our picture window)                                                               
Image #32  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures   
Early Morning Bird with snail drawings on Picture window, South Pond in background)

Image #33  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
Early Morning Dew on our picture window with a snail drawing (yin yang 1)         
    
Image #34  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
Early Morning Dew on our picture window with abstract (Sibelius) snail drawing 

Image #34-A 12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
Snail drawing in early morning dew on our picture window 

Image #34-B 12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
Early morning mist on the bedroom window, small suspended chimes and curtains 
              
  Image #35  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
Little bedroom window & screen with morning mist-drops, North meadow & houses

  Image #36  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
Bedroom window & screen, morning mist-drops, curtain reflection, yellow light on the green meadow

  Image #37  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
 Symmetrical Photograph constructed with the previous image, above


Part II
A  Second Collection of Window Pictures 
made between 1965 & before 2008 
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Image #38  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
 12x12" version of a Photograph inspired by W. Eugene Smith, Dave Heath, 
& Robert Frank, for Nathan Lyons' Home Workshop, Rochester, NY 1964-66.
See my 1966 Book project for Nathan's 2nd Workshop 

   Image #39  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures         
      Bus Window, with blue dots above a sleeping passenger's head        
            on the way to Albany, NY to protest Hydrofracking in the state              

        
  Image #40  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures   
A boy surprised by a blue balloon with a yellow tail in an   
Underground Sea Lion Pool Viewing Window ~  Seneca Zoo, Rochester, NY  

     
     Image #41  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
    Shepherds on the side of a hill in Turkey (viewed through a shaded bus window)

     
   Image #41-A  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
 Window Photograph : Memphis Airport (with two figures riding escalators)

      
Image #42  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
"Ghost travelers" & Windows at the Anchorage Airport, Alaska

      
Image #43  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures    
Angelic presence, as perceived in a window's reflection
I became fascinated by Angels after falling in love with Islamic Sacred Art 
while visiting Turkey in 2011. The writings about angles by Henry Corbin 
and by Tom Cheetham was an important influence on my work after I
completed my multi-chaptered 20011-13 project inspired by my
experiences in Turkey.  Visit the project "An Imaginary Book" 
and my collection of Angel Projects
     
     
Image #44  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures 
 Motel window view of two fences on two sides of a swimming pool
Maine (near Acadia National Park)

           
         Image #45  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures    
            Milwaukee window-enclosed bus stop, people, snow storm, pigeons flying upward        
From my project City Places. 

      
Image #46  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures   
Memphis Airport windows, and an Airplane taking off

        
            Image #47  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
          Memphis, 2023   A Little Butterfly on my friend's kitchen window screen
            My friend Larry pointed to the butterfly, then asked me to take a picture 

                
              Image #48  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
                  Minneapolis Airport, Men's Restroom Window covered with a piece of Frosted Plastic   

                 
               Image #49  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
A Grasshopper on our front storm door widow
               Visit my project Faint Photographs.               

            
            Image #50  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures    
         Luminous Shaded Window & Door leaning against a wall in an empty room

                
            Image #51  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
                View of business buildings in downtown Milwaukee through a office window covered by a venetian blind 
                  
                       
                  Image #52  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
                photo collage silver print, from my blog version of the"Dream Portrait" project 
                     This Rousseau painting fascinated our two year old son Shaun as he lay on his changing table   
                       by the curtained window.   I collaged together several strips of photographic images   
                     (from other 10x10" silver gelatin prints) to construct this collaged image.

                             
Image #53  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
           Waving Goodbye (through an airport window)  
                    This Faint Photograph is (for me) a metaphor for The Departing Landscape(Most  things--        
                               including human beings photographs--fade when over-exposed to light.)  
                      
                     
                                     Image #54  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                       
                                       (Double window reflection of a lamp, blue Vermont tree & Jim, in the foreground)                              

           
                 Image #54-A  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures   
        "Still Life with Lamp."    ~   The "still life" consists of a child's drawing on white paper, a stone 
        which had been placed upon the drawing, and a pencil with which the drawing was made.
         I took this photograph on the first night of a three day vacation that my wife Gloria and I 
          took in August, 2024 with our daughter, Jessica, our grandson River, our son, Shaun   
        his wife Hao, and our grand daughter Claire, who made the drawing (above).  The  
         lamp sits next to a window of our Airbnb house which looks out at Lake Ontario 
        in the 1,000 Island Region of New York State.  (Two nights later we looked out 
        of this window and saw the Super Moon shining in the sky and on the Lake.)  
                
                                      
                                                         Image #55  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures                                                 
                                                  Winter Setting Sun viewed through a front window while Babysitting                                          

                      
                          Image #56 12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures            
                                   Canandaigua Mexican Restaurant, table top still life, three windows,                   
                             from my Morandi inspired three-part Walkabout project.         
           
               
       Image #57  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures   
                                      Glass table under a basement window                          
        
        
    Image #58  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
Steamy, tearing store-front window & styrofoam cup near the back wall of an empty room

            
         Image #59  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
                Venetian blind, cord & reflections in a store front window  

          
        Image #60 12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
           Reflection of an illuminated window curtain in the glass of an old picture frame      
       hanging on the cracked wall corner of a bed&breakfast room

          
        Image #61  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
         Symmetrical Photograph: Looking through Multiple Miniature Window Panes 
       into a Wedding Tent decorated with strings of Glowing Lights



New 12x12" Images Added in mid November, 2024 from Book 11
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    Image #62  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
(Mr. Blue looking out steamed basement window with snail drawings)


    Image #63  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
(Succulent plant next to steamed basement window)

    Image #64  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
(View out of our basement window)

    Image #65  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
(Three birds in outside basement window reflections)

Image #66  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
                 (Picture Window with Bird, Snow Flake, Steam and snail drawings)                      
           This image is part of an ongoing series: visit my New Camera-Work Photographs  

Image #67  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures
(Rain drops on sliding door screen, inside light reflections, deck railing)

 Image #68  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
Symmetrical Photograph  (Ivy surrounding a garage window - the Nov. 2024 version)
see my ICON project

 Image #69  12x12" Inkjet Print PROJECT: Picture Window / Window Pictures  
Symmetrical Photograph  (Golden Winter morning light - with blue center)
see my Baby Sitting project



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             This project was first announced on 
       my bog's Welcome Page on
         August 8, 2024
          (revised August 12 with 3 added images)



Related Blog Project Links

How to Best View My Online Blog Images  with your desktop or laptop computer.    

Homage to Alberto Giacometti  
My seven part blog project


Window Pictures  my earlier three-part blog project on the theme of Windows





A Personal History of Photography  An Illustrated, annotated chronology projects, stories, remembrances


Please visit the Welcome Page to my blog The Departing Landscape.  It includes the complete hyperlinked listing of my online photography projects dating from the most recent to those dating back to the 1960's.  You will also find on the Welcome Page my resume, contact information . . . and much more.
























                
                                                                                                    
                                                                           
                              

                                     
                                                       
                                                                                                                   
                                                              
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