18x18" Inkjet Print Project
Portraits, Figures,
Animals, Birds, Insects
I have photographed people off-and-on since I was ten years old.
I was growing up during the "Street Photography 1960's & 70's
and I have included photographs of people in many of my
conceptual projects over the years.
Visit my blog link which collects the full range of projects
in which I include photographs of people and check out
the Introductory text.
The Photographs
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Portraits
Image #78 18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
Gloria with a serious concussion, August 1969, shortly after she suffered a car accident
My portraits are seldom literal records of appearance. They
instead are charged often with emotion or
perhaps a living Presence.
Image #4 18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
(Face, Out of Focus, Hands on both sides of face)
Image #126 18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
Face of light (Larry McPherson, died of Parkinson's disease, 2025)
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Image #236 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base)
Symmetrical snow photograph (Khabir, or the Face of an Angel)
21x21" Square Image Part 2: #58 Faint Portrait Photograph,
(the Presence of a Person)
21x21" Square Image Part 2: #59 (Out of Focus Face, Eyes Closed)
21x21" Square Image Part 2: #61 (Dark Divided Head) (O.F.) (Rome Colosseum)
Many of us humans have such broken, fragmented, confused
unknowable personas or egos.
21x21" Square Image Part 2: #62 Faint Photograph,
("Frightened" eyes--one hand to side of the face)
(Visit my project Portraits & Faces)
Image #3 18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
(Eclipsed, Circled Abstract Line Drawing Portrait)
(See my project Line Drawing Portraits Homage to Giocometti
Animals, Birds, Insects
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Tuttle & bubbles in a backyard home-made pond (a "Quirky" photo)
As I written elsewhere, many images can fit into more than one
thematic category, suggesting the a layering of meaning or
a potential for many kinds of meaning depending on
the viewer's capacity, etc.
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #130
Mr. Blue behind window curtains
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #30
Basement Window View of Birds in flight over the weeping apple tree
I have a special attraction to birds--photographically--though I have
considered it impossible to photograph living birds.
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #213
A Sea Lion, swimming on its back in a zoo pool
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #36
Mr. Blue looking out of our steamed basement window with snail drawings
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #7 (Bird & Rain drops on window, S. Meadow)
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #180
Bird and snowflake on our misted snail-lined picture window
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Image #5 18x18 Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base) (Faint Photograph, Bull in foggy landscape)
Two Geckos (Faint Photograph)
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Image #76 18x18 Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
Grasshopper (Faint Photograph) (Quirky photograph)
21x21" Square Image #75 Symmetrical Photograph
Illuminated Garden Path (Butterfly)
Many of the symmetrical photographs manifest spontaneously
wings and eyes.
21x21" Square Image #9 Symmetrical Photograph
Bird of Tears (Blue Angel of Tears project)
Human Figures
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #85
(Bather, looking down, with the Lake's horizon line on his shoulders)
Inversed shadow-man walking over crossed lines
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #125
A Boy (named River) walking in a Blue River Dream
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #174
Young Man Walking--in the distance--in a Snow Storm
(Boy with Bat & Ball in a momentary flash of light)
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #67
Death Valley
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #61
Bus Window View of shepherds gathered on a hill in Turkey
Reflection of Gloria in our rain covered picture window, reading at night under our floor lamp
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #122
Young Boy. glaring man with a book, two florescent tubes (early 1994-2000 Studies project)
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #171
Vatican Sculpture, public display (young boy)
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Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #173
Four men in suites (out of focus)
(Visit my project Faint Photographs)
Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #87
Young Boy and the Universe (early 1994-2000 Studies project)
from my project "Silent Dialogues"
See my collection of Studies Projects, and in particular
Studies I, 1994-2000 and Studies II which is a Homage project to the
great jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk.
I have never felt more disappointed in human beings. 2025 has been
the most difficult year of my life thanks to politics in America,
Climate Change, and all kinds of physical problems that
have sprung up and worsening since January, 2023.
I am writing this in mid-August;
in three weeks I will turn 80 years old.
I am so grateful for Gurumayi &
Siddha Yoga, my wife Gloria, our
children and grandchildren and
photography.
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This project page was published on August 12, 2025
but it is presently unfinished; also, more pictures
may be added or removed later.
Here is the list of titles for the newly revised, thematically restructured 18x18" Inkjet Print Project. When a title has been published as a blog page, the hyperlinked title will appear as a deep blue typeface. As the titles indicate, more than one thematic grouping may be published under a single blog page title.
"Pandemic Inspired" & Winter Photographs
Makom, "the Place"
Symmetrical Images
"The Persephone Series" & "In the Woods"
Portraits, Figures, Animals Birds & Insects
Five Homage Project Images:
Giorgio Morandi
Steve Lacy
Robert Ryman
Mario Giacometti
Mompou
List of Projects
included in the
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Time & Timelessness February 1, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
The Memory of Light March 4, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
Black and White Photographs April 3, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
Winter's End, Winter's Stones & Plants April 17, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
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The Pandemic Inkjet Prints project June, 2023
Twenty-five photographs, printed 16x20"on 20x24"paper
Blue Angels (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")
Double-page Illuminations for An Imaginary Book
An Additional Related Blog Project Link
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 several Introductory statements, my resume, contact information . . . and much more.
