Book Eleven
A Collection of 12x12" Inkjet Print Photographs
Selected & Printed from my Blog Image Archives in October, 2024
~ A Work-in-Progress ~
Introduction
Between September 20, 2024 and October 10, 2024 I completed three 12x12" inkjet print PROJECT's and made several LARGE inkjet Prints as well. In the beginning of October I found some additional images I wanted to include in my 12x12" inkjet print archive. The complete listing of 12x12" Books, PROJECTS and LARGER sized prints is available at this link: The Complete 2023-2024 Inkjet Print Project.
(Note: The blog 12x12" Books were created to serve as an online documentation of all the prints I have made recently, for my 2023-2024 Inkjet Print Project, which is intended create a Print Archive of my favorite blog project images which have been created since 2011 or so.)
As with all the previous ten Inkjet Print Book projects, the photographs collected here below were randomly chosen (i.e., no formal, subject matter or conceptual themes were in mind when I selected images) from my vast Blog Projects Digital Image Archive. All of the images in this project now exist as 12x12" formatted inkjet prints with surrounding (varying) tonal mattes. After the prints were made, and I began the process of preparing the images for publication of this blog page, I have--where it seemed to make sense--placed some images together for various reasons whichI have explained in the texts or project links included under the pictures and their image number, project title (Book Ten), and a brief, usually descriptive title.
More pictures will undoubtedly be added to this project at a later date. And, on the other hand, this could possibly be the last 12x12" Book in my 2023-2024 Inkjet Print Project. (I said this same thing at the time I published Book Ten.)
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A few preliminary notes before you view the photographs
All of the images you will be seeing exist as 12x12" inkjet prints. Please visit this link The 12x12" Studies Inkjet Print Books, PROJECTS & other LARGER inkjet prints which contains all of the complete hyperlinked inkjet print project titles.
Under each of the photographs published below I have indicated (in script type) an Image # and this Project's Title; then on the next line below I provide the Title of the image (which in most cases is descriptive rather than poetic or metaphoric). When I feel that the title does not supply enough context, I will also write additional text below the Title line in an attempt to explain something about the image or my creative process that you (the viewer) might find useful in terms of better connecting--in unexpected, meaningful ways--with the image.
The tonal mattes that surround each image varies in tone and width according to what looks and feels best for the image. I enjoy thinking of the matte as an atmosphere of silence that surrounds the image and perhaps helps you to become more receptive or empathic to what the image or "Thing" wants to say to you. Becoming silent, stilling the mind, is the best way to "listen" to an image, especially an image that is functioning for you as a True, living Symbol. (Visit my project regarding the practice of Contempating Symbolic Photographs)
There are instances in which I used a matte tone that matches a particular tone on the edge of the image area so that where that image area and the tonal matte interface, those spaces merge into each other as if the internal space of the image becomes extended into the space of the surrounding tonal matte. ~ Also, there are instances in my work in which, at their original conception, I suspended an image or "thing" in a pure black space that extended to the very outer edges of the 12x12" format, then later I decided to add a slightly lighter-than-black tonal matte surrounding the interior black tone. In those cases I probably chose to do that simply because it looked better to me in some way; or perhaps I felt the tonal transition from light-black to pure-black helped to create a more intimate invitation into the center of the image in which the image or thing is suspended in a pure black space.
Finally, if you are viewing this blog project on a desktop or laptop computer, I want to encourage you to click on each of the images (twice) which--I hope--will give you access to an alternate viewing mode that's possible with my blog projects and images. Please read the brief statement below and if you would like more technical information, click on the highlighted blog page title How Best View . . . .
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 equipment and viewing preferences.
Book Eleven
A Collection of 12x12" Inkjet Print Photographs
Selected & Printed from my Image Archives in October, 2024
Book Eleven Image #1 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Picture Window with Bird, Snow Flake, Steam and snail drawings)
This image is part of an ongoing series: visit my New Camera-Work Photographs
Also see: Picture Window / Window Pictures
Book Eleven Image #2 (12x12 inkjet print)
Symmetrical Photograph (Costa Rica, Yellow Bird on a tree branch)
Book Eleven Image #3 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Black Berry Plants in the Early morning Spring fog covering the entire meadow)
Book Eleven Image #4 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Thistle plant, standing tall near the North Meadow Pond in the Early morning, Spring fog)
Book Eleven Image #5 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Hudson River Valley, looking south at Bear Mountain Bridge, mid morning)
Book Eleven Image #6 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Hudson River Valley, evening view of Storm King Mountain from Cold Springs, NY)
Visit my Hudson River Valley blog project
If you visit the project you will note that all the images are in the 4:3, long rectangle
format. These two images have been re-formatted to the square 12x12" format.
I must confess I favor the square images, when its possible to use. Not all of
my 4:3 photographs work well in the square versions.
Three Stones stacked on Broad Brook Road
Book Eleven Image #12 (12x12 inkjet print)
Chinese Restaurant Round Table Setting
Book Eleven Image #8 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Charging my iPhone in Larry's house before I leave Memphis to go back home 2023)
Visit my 2023 Return-Visit to Memphis project (my first 12x12" PROJECT)
Book Eleven Image #9 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Wire loop)
Book Eleven Image #10 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Laundry & shadows flapping in the wind)
Book Eleven Image #11 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Nocturne -Black Birds gathered on concrete steps)
Images 7-9 above are from my Early Studies 12x12" inkjet print PROJECT
Chinese Restaurant Round Table Setting
Book Eleven Image #13 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Ivy surrounding a garage window - the Nov. 2024 version)
see my ICON project
Book Eleven Image #14 (12x12 inkjet print)
(Golden Winter morning light - with blue center)
see my Baby Sitting project
Book Eleven Image #14 (12x12 Symmetrical inkjet print)
(Sunlit foggy morning in Vermont)
Note: This project is a Work-in-Process.
I intend to add more photographs eventually.
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This project was announced on
my bog's Welcome Page
October, 2024
Related Blog Project Links
How to Best View My Online Blog Images with your desktop or laptop computer.
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.
