Light Experimentation during artistic residence in Marseille and Arle
Fos-sur-mers
aix-provence
totally dark landscape lighting by me
taking banal thing, anecdotal, and making this surreal-lunar-other world
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Many methods were tried, some unorthodox, in an effort to lure the Loch Ness monster into camera range. Here brave divers execute a baiting using cow’s blood and a bait basket trolled at a 60-foot depth.
Photograph by Emory Kristof, National Geographic
Palangan Village, in the mountains near the Iraq border. Palangan, illustrative of many of the country’s rural settlements, has benefitted handsomely from government support. Many villagers are employed in a nearby fish farm, or are paid members of the Basij, whose remit includes prevention of “westoxification”, and the preservation of everything the 1979 islamic revolution and its leader the Ayatollah Khomeini stood for - including strict rules on female clothing and male/female interaction. (Amos Chapple) (via One photographer’s journey inside Iran - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
Taken with the World’s Biggest Camera
Ian Ruhter/ Wet Plate Collodion 48’x60”/See the forest for the trees /Tahoe, CA /11.27.2011




