The 16x20" Inkjet Prints
(on 20x24" paper)
Part I. The Meadow Series
Part II. Other 16x20" images
Note: this project page is presently a work-in-progress
When I first started the Meadow Series, in 2008-10, I didn't make prints of them, nor did I publish them on my blog because I had not yet created the blog; the blog came in November, 2010 about a year and a half after my wife Gloria and I moved from Milwaukee (after I retired from teaching) to Canandaigua, NY. After I created the blog I thought, "no need to make prints any more, I will just publish them on my blog and keep a larger file size version of every published blog image for possible later use in case I wanted to make an inkjet print.
We chose the house we did (after many months of searching in the spring and summer of 2008) in part because as soon as I saw the view from the picture window--facing out over our back yard and the meadow just beyond our property line, with the tapered woods surrounding the back side of the meadow--I fell in love with the meadow, the view, the space and my immediate idea to produce a series of photographs of the meadow in homage to Francis Ponge's wonderful poem (Le Pre) and the book he published about the poem, entitled The Making of the Pre (Meadow).
If you look at the early blog project The Meadow Series you will notice that the images have been formatted longer than what you will see here, below, in this 16x20" inkjet print collection of Meadow images. I think my older digital camera had a long "landscape" format option that I thoughtlessly chose because I was making "landscape" photographs, but I never really liked that format; it really did not fit the shape and space of the meadow itself (it seemed to me). I am much happier with the 4x5/16x20" format I have used for the longer inkjet print Meadow images.
Later, after creating the huge The Complete 2023~2024 Inkjet Print Project I felt compelled to try making some square 12x12" versions of the original blog versions, and was thrilled with the results. (Visit my 12x12" inkjet print Meadow project) It was a fascinating exercises in re-visualizing images I had already loved but never felt quite right about. I particularly like the symmetrical Meadow 12x12" inkjet print versions. I have always thought of my Symmetrical Photographs as being essentially "round" or circular images.
I have made larger square inkjet prints of several of the Meadow images. Please visit the following links:
Of course not all of the meadow pictures worked well in the square format, and I have found a happy compromise in the 16x20" inkjet Meadow prints you will be seeing here in their blog reproductions, below.
As I have explained in the introduction to my blog project page The Complete Collection of the 2023~2024 Inkjet Print Projects there were two earlier inkjet print projects which used the 16x20" format (including the tonal borders) printed upon a 20x24" paper base, and which preceded the the 12x12" and the 18x18" project, and the 21x21" project. Here are blog hyperlinked titles:
(A Photography Project about Death, Angels & the Blue Pearl (the blog version was revised April 2023)
Inkjet prints made in 2023 (image sizes vary but include the 16x20" formatted images)
Twenty-five photographs, printed 16x20"on 20x24"paper
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Before we move on the images there is one last thing I want to share with you regarding viewing my blow published images.
I am concerned that you see my blog images in the highest quality reproductions possible. The blog images can never accurately duplicate the actual inkjet print experience, but I encourage you to look over the following statement below which I have included in nearly all of my blog projects of the last two years:
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 an image 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 to your screen, and you can darken or lighten your computer's screen brightness to suit your equipment and viewing preferences.
The 16x20"
Part I.
Meadow Series Inkjet Prints
(on 20x24" paper)
#1 Meadow 16x20 (on 20x24") S Meadow ground fog, blue sky, just before sunrise
#2 Meadow 16x20" (on 20x24") S Meadow, fog, pink sky
#3 Meadow 16x20 (on 20x24") N Meadow, pond & echoing cloud shapes
#4 Meadow 16x20" (on 20x24") N Meadow & Pond Purple storm sky
#5 Meadow 16x20" (on 20x24") S Meadow & fog, View with neighbor's back yard
#6 Meadow 16x20" (on 20x24") N Meadow, pond, two levels of fog
#8 Meadow 16x20" on 20x24" N Meadow, Twilight, Dark/Light & houses w lights on
#10 Meadow 16x20" (on 20x24") S Meadow, view over the pond, low heavy fog at sunset
early morning fog lifting over the South Meadow & Woods
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(The East side of Chatham Lane)
Note: Chatham Lane surrounds the Meadow I have been photographing. All the
houses on Chatham Lane look out upon the meadow. This image was made
from my house, looking past Chatham Lane (or away from the meadow).
In the lower right corner the rooftop of one of the houses on Chatham
Lane could appear to some viewers as a distant hill. (Never mind.)
#14 Meadow 16x20" (on 20x24") N Meadow, sunset, clouds with angelic presence
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#15 Meadow 16x20 (on 20x24" paper) N Meadow, Early morning light ground fog
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(Note: The next three images (Right, Middle, Left)
were made on the same morning in this order)
#19 Meadow 16x20" (on 20x24") (1st of 3 Right) North Meadow & Pond, early morning fog
#20 Meadow 16x20" (on 20x24") (2nd Middle of 3)
South Meadow with early morning fog, viewed through our picture window
#21 Meadow 16x20" (on 20x24") (3rd of 3 Left)
South Meadow & Pond, with a thin layer of low lying morning fog
and a sky that's about to become illuminated by the red rising sun
#22 Meadow 16x20" (20x24" paper base)
Elongated cloud in setting sun light over the South Meadow & Pond
#23 Meadow 16x20" (20x24" paper base)
Sunset with Falling Rain Clouds over the South Meadow and Pond
#24 Meadow 16x20" (20x24" paper base)
Cold Late Fall Morning with Early Snow on the North Meadow and Pond
Part II
Miscellaneous 16x20" Inkjet Prints
(on 20x24" paper)
#25 Misc. 16x20" (on a 20x24" paper base) Garden pool, sculpture & coins
#26 Misc. 16x20" (on a 20x24" paper base) View through venation blinds, Kilbourn Ave.
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This project is a work in progress:
It was First published and announced on
my bog's Welcome Page
December 23, 2024
Related Blog Project Links:
(A Photography Project about Death, Angels & the Blue Pearl (the blog version was revised April 2023)
Inkjet prints made in 2023 (image sizes vary from 16x20" to 18x21")
Published December 23, 2024; this is a revised and updated blog
project page dedicated to all of my 2023-2024 Inkjet Print Projects
The link above includes the 21x21, 18x18, 16x20 & 12x12" collections of inkjet prints and much more
18x18" images on 20x24" paper Inkjet prints made in 2023 (Blog project: June, 2023)
This link includes all of the 12x12" Books and Projects.
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.
