In the days of black and white film, photographers such as A. Aubrey Bodine would rely on line, composition and contrast to capture the subtleties of the season. This exercise is my attempt to emulate their methodology.
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Showing posts with label A. Aubrey Bodine. Show all posts
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Dance of the Dogwoods
Spring Comes to the Hilltops as Trees Blossom
In the days of black and white film, photographers such as A. Aubrey Bodine would rely on line, composition and contrast to capture the subtleties of the season. This exercise is my attempt to emulate their methodology.
In the days of black and white film, photographers such as A. Aubrey Bodine would rely on line, composition and contrast to capture the subtleties of the season. This exercise is my attempt to emulate their methodology.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Walking Around in Washington
How I Gained a New Appreciation of Bodine
The Capitol. photo from an earlier trip.
Yesterday was the Fourth of July. I walked down to the center of town at dawn, hoping for a chance to photograph the morning light on the Lincoln Memorial. The fences where up for the big celebration but there was clearly still access. Two joggers ran by the memorial and out the fence.
I proceeded to walk in where the joggers had come out only to be told that the memorial grounds were closed. The poor security guy was getting chewed out for letting the joggers through. Tomorrow will be the day I try again. I'm told A. Aubry Bodine had days like this too.
He once drove from Baltimore all the way to Frederick, Maryland to photograph a particular valley. When he got there the light was wrong. He got his photograph a year later on another trip.
The Capitol. photo from an earlier trip.
Yesterday was the Fourth of July. I walked down to the center of town at dawn, hoping for a chance to photograph the morning light on the Lincoln Memorial. The fences where up for the big celebration but there was clearly still access. Two joggers ran by the memorial and out the fence.
I proceeded to walk in where the joggers had come out only to be told that the memorial grounds were closed. The poor security guy was getting chewed out for letting the joggers through. Tomorrow will be the day I try again. I'm told A. Aubry Bodine had days like this too.
He once drove from Baltimore all the way to Frederick, Maryland to photograph a particular valley. When he got there the light was wrong. He got his photograph a year later on another trip.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Snowy Creek by the Sycamore
A Scene Like Youthful Memories of Winters Past
A quiet Winter scene.
Sunday afternoons in my youth it was a treat to sit down with the Sunday Sun 'Brown Section.' It was a magazine insert into the Sunday paper, sort of like Parade is today. But the 'Brown Section' was so much richer than today's Sunday magazines, instead of a pop culture roundup the 'Brown Section' covered the life of the community.
One aspect of the 'Brown Section' was always a new collection of photographs by A. Aubrey Bodine telling some story of the life of Baltimore or the surrounding Maryland countryside. He was to Baltimore what Holsinger was to Charlottesville, sort of a photographer laurate.
Misty harbor scenes with ships, landmarks in all seasons and those famous white marble steps in Highlandtown all became subjects for Bodine's keen eye. I loved his work! When the Baltimore Cathedral was under construction, Bodine climbed to the top to capture stonemasons building this modern structure with their ancient craft. You can see how he sparked the imagination of his readers. He worked for the Sun for fifty years but showed and sold his photographs in galleries as well. Today his daughter maintains a collection of his work, the A Aubrey Bodine Site [click to read].
A quiet Winter scene.
Sunday afternoons in my youth it was a treat to sit down with the Sunday Sun 'Brown Section.' It was a magazine insert into the Sunday paper, sort of like Parade is today. But the 'Brown Section' was so much richer than today's Sunday magazines, instead of a pop culture roundup the 'Brown Section' covered the life of the community.
One aspect of the 'Brown Section' was always a new collection of photographs by A. Aubrey Bodine telling some story of the life of Baltimore or the surrounding Maryland countryside. He was to Baltimore what Holsinger was to Charlottesville, sort of a photographer laurate.
Misty harbor scenes with ships, landmarks in all seasons and those famous white marble steps in Highlandtown all became subjects for Bodine's keen eye. I loved his work! When the Baltimore Cathedral was under construction, Bodine climbed to the top to capture stonemasons building this modern structure with their ancient craft. You can see how he sparked the imagination of his readers. He worked for the Sun for fifty years but showed and sold his photographs in galleries as well. Today his daughter maintains a collection of his work, the A Aubrey Bodine Site [click to read].
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