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The images here weren't taken in extraordinary settings or under extraordinary circumstances. More often than not, they were taken on ordinary days, doing ordinary things: watching the dancing reflections from waves of passing boat traffic; a sunday afternoon drive through wheat and canola fields in eastern washington; looking at the corroded, rusty back-end of an old tugboat; an early morning walk on the beach, watching the moon set and finding a pile of fishing nets laying on the sand.

This blog is attached to my main photography site, h3images.com and is mostly about...photography. Fair warning though: because photography is about so much more than pointing a camera at something and firing the shutter, other topics and features that may not seem to be 100% photography related will seep in. Hopefully that won't be off-putting. If it is, just click "home" on the navigation bar above and go back to looking at images.

I hope what you see and read here will inspire and raise your awareness for all of the extraordinarily ordinary beauty which, as the old hymn says, “…over and around us lies...” Look around - it's everywhere!

Happy imaging -- bill

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Cameras: nearly all images on the site were taken with Nikon film and digital cameras; most native film images are from slides which were later scanned; digital images are generally shot using nikon's RAW file format.  Look here for a good discussion of why RAW is such a great way to shoot.

Workflow: my images aren't manipulated beyond basic levels, curves, white balance and sometimes slight saturation adjustments. my goal is to present images that are as close to original scene as possible. 

Printing: all printing is done with Epson printers using archival inks and matte papers, usually from Epson and Moab.

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Tuesday
04Nov2008

Melinda Hannigan

DateTuesday, November 4, 2008 at 02:42AM

I've had the good fortune to become friends with Melinda Hannigan who in addition to being a wonderful person, is an amazing - I repeat - amazing artist. She paints sections of big ships which as I've found in my work, provide infinite beautiful material: bleeding paint, rust spots and welds, faded symbols and miscellaneous scars and bruises they've acquired at ports all over the world.


Earlier this spring I was wandering Fishermen's Terminal looking for some of this industrial beauty, when I saw the side of an old hull with some painted-over markings and new symbols immediately above the old that reminded me of Melinda's work. I snapped a few shots and later that week took a print to  her studio. I thought she would like it but wasn't prepared for the reception it received...and a few months later was bowled over when she said she had decided to paint it for her fall show in Seattle.

We visited her Studio again late this summer and were able to see the piece - "New Life" - almost completed. Then, this past week, Kayce and I stopped by the opening of her October show at the Fetherston Gallery in Seattle to see not only "New Life" in it's finshed form, but many other beautiful pieces Melinda had been working on during the past year. 

The photographs of Melinda's work don't do it justice - you have to see the texture up close, the seams, the rust, the scars...and feel like you're looking at the a section of a ship that's been surgically removed and mounted in front of you!

You can also read more about Melinda and see more of her work at www.melindahannigan.com

 

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