Early in the morning

 I'm not yet fully awake.

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Early in the Morning or How I Sometimes See   2012

I miss this!

Matthew G. Beall Photography   California Sunset   2012    Pismo Beach

Color Photography 

Mirrored

Matthew G. Beall Photography  Mirrored  2013

I am longing to be back where I was over the Christmas holidays: The California Central Coast. Instead I am in a place where there is snow all around.

Longing for the sand, the sun, the sound of breaking waves, the smell of the sea.

 An ordinary rock in ordinary sand is extra ordinary on a sunny  Pismo Beach, California December morning.

Matthew G. Beall Photography    Longing for Before    2012     Pismo Beach, California

It's been some time since  I posted. I am back after a nice, long vacation to the place I was raised. Naturally, I had all my gear and a preconceived idea for a new series.  

I went back in time, way back. Memories are sweet. Memories connect to the present. This is the result.

 California Central Coast Series -- see the complete series on my Facebook page, and while you are there, please "like"it,

Here's a taste

Matthew G. Beall Photography
Shell Beach Wonder
2012
Shell Beach, California

Matthew G. Beall Photography
Here It Comes
2012
Shell Beach, California

Matthew G. Beall Photography
From the Bluff 2
2012
Shell Beach, California

The significance of THREE can be interpreted as wholeness.

Three photographs - One plant  =

Triptych

 

Matthew G Beall Photography   The significance of THREE   2012

Matthew G. Beall Photography  Three is Wholeness 1  2012

Matthew G. Beall Photography  Three is Wholeness 2  2012

Matthew G. Beall Photography  Three is Wholeness 3  2012

One of the modernist pioneers of photography. 

 Under the Darkcloth is broken into 6 parts for Youtube. Thanks Youtube and Tom Johnston Photography

Oct 25, 2012. What a beautiful day in Ulm, Germany. A day for photographing.

It was an awesome day because I got to out shooting pics with my good friend Axel Busch. Axel is an entrepreneur,  an adventurer, a sailor, a diver, a fellow photographer, a videographer, and above all, my  friend. He is someone that I greatly admire.

 A three hour tour: Axel isn't in Germany very often, so we took advantage of such an awesome day to grab our gear and shoot. It was about having a great time. Man, did I enjoy it!

Axel in action. Oct. 25, 2012

A few shots

Ulm from across the Danube  Oct. 25, 2012

Without light what are we? I am always chasing the light. There are days when the light shines through a window and creates such shadow that I am compelled to get the camera and play around with the ordinary inside the apartment.

Matthew G. Beall   Shadows on a Bathroom Wall   2012

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Her Office   2012

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Her Office Desk   2012

The Internet is AWESOME!

One of the greatest things I like about it is how one can rather easily connect with other photographers . Although I am from the States, I live in Germany, and it's far, far away from "home" physically speaking... yet, so very, very close online. Take Miami, Fl. for instance. It's is 4931 miles from where I am at. It's kinda tough to pop by to talk to someone face-to-face but online, well, it's as if it is just around the corner.  Miami photographer Jorge Ledesma - Ledesmaphotography -is an example of one of these connections.

I have been following Jorge's blog http://ledesmaphotography.wordpress.com/home/blog/  for a some time. I like what he has to say and I like his work. He and I have very similar thoughts on the art of photography. In his  Week40 post he writes, "I can assure you that cameras don’t really matter all that much." Yep! He continues to say, and I paraphrase here, it's your vision and how you make the photograph. Absolutely! I think he hits it spot on with this sentence: "Processing for me is so intimately tied to vision because it hones in on what you saw and what you want your viewer to see..."

Jorge is one of the photographers that helps me to see a bit differently when I am stuck and helps me to color outside the lines.

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Shadows on a Bathroom Wall    2012

Fall is here and winter is coming

 There's a wonderful beauty during winter when the tress are bare, the skies are gray, and fresh soft snow is on the ground. I see monotone.

Matthew G. Beall Photography   There's a Wonderful Beauty    2011

 

Iron Man by Black Sabbath is an awesome song. 

Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all,
Or if he moves will he fall?
Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
Well just pass him there
Why should we even care? 

Really old cemeteries are great places to photograph. The first lines of Iron Man seem fitting when making photographs in and of a cemetery.

Matthew G. Beall  Well Just Pass Him There  2012  Ulm, Germany

Sometimes a subject speaks very loudly yet softly at the same time.

Matthew G. Beall    Blowing in the Wind     2012

My Vision

Taking liberties using the iconic Bauhaus student dorm building.

Matthew G. Beall   Out in the Air    2012

Matthew G. Beall   Up, Up, Up   2012

The iconic Bauhaus Building by Walter Gropius (built  1925 - 1926) sits in Dessau. The outside is a beauty, and the inside is beautiful.

Matthew G. Beall   Bauhaus Window   2012

Matthew G. Beall Photography   Bauhaus Stairs and Window    2012

What is it about stairways and light & shadow?

Somewhere in Weimar, Germany is a staircase and a glass ceiling from which light bathes the walls of the stairwell.

Matthew G. Beall   Stairway to Light   2012

Matthew G. Beall   Stairway to Light 2  2012

While at documenta 13 in Kassle, we took advantage of visiting the Brüder Grimm Haus.These creaky stares are a wonder to look at as well as to climb. Of course, I couldn't resist making a black and white photograph of the staircase.

Matthew G. Beall   Brüder Grimm Haus Staircase  2012

Ingredients of a photo: 

Sun, Clouds, Sand, Beach Chairs, Old Buildings, Fauna, Light, Shadow. 

Mix together

Matthew G. Beall   Ahlbeck   2012

On the island of Rügen on the Baltic Sea coast of Germany.  The roofed wicker beach chairs (Strandkörbe) waiting for the storm to come.

Matthew G. Beall   Rügen: Waiting for the Storm   2012

Sometimes really playing around with a photograph brings about something unexpected even though you started with a certain end result vision. The unexpected can be, at times, better than the expected. The unexpected can take you into a new direction, it can open your eyes wider, it can lead you to paint outside the lines, and it can remind you that you can fun with your art, too.

Matthew G. Beall   The Chairs   2012

Matthew G. Beall   The Chairs II   2012