Photography "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art." Ansel Adams  I am a visual artist. I am a painter. I am a photographer. Photography is art. It is about visualization. It is composition. It is context. It is mood. It is creative vision. It is fine art. Matthew G. Beall - taking the shot Matthew G. Beall  Fischerplatz Gallerie Matthew G. Beall  Im...

I am lucky to live in a city with its own cathedral - der ulmer Münster (Ulm Cathedral). It is impressive. It is old. It is filled with detail. It is architectural delight. I often go out an shoot the cathedral. I wait for a day with some sun and try to go out at the right time to capture shadows and light.  I usually take shots of parts of the whole i.e. the whole from a distance. This time I focused a bit closer up. See...

Despite the haze, there's still light A bottle of water and sun   Even when it seems completely bleak, there's still a flicker of light Hope   And out of the darkness we begin to see things a little more clearl...

 Looking up at an element in San Francisco, California. The Golden Gate Bridge is an icon. Often we see it as a whole, yet it is made up of many elements.I decided to take a look, a unique look, at an element in Black and White. Matthew G. Beall   Element ,  2008 -2011 The next time you cross the Golden Gate Bridge, Look up. See my previous post about Looking...

Kunsthalle Weishaupt Architecture: Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany When I first heard that art collector Siegfried Weishaupt was going to build a Kunsthalle in Ulm to share his collection and mount exhibitions, I was like a little boy waiting for Christmas to come. I thought it would never get here. Kunsthalle Weishaupt opened on Nov. 24, 2007. The 4000 square meter building, designed by WWA - Wolfram Wöhr Architekten...

Continuing my Looking Up adventure, I went out on yet another nice, sunny day to take a few shots, looking up. Again, you sometimes find things that you never noticed before such as a clock at the top of a building around the corner from my place. And, to make it even more interesting, there's a chicken, or is it a rooster, sitting atop the clock. Then I walked over to a circular parking garage and, for the first time, actually...

Matthew G. Beall Art :: Inside the Studio: My Photogra...

Today I walked to the camera store to take my camera in for a good ol’ fashioned cleaning (it really does need it). The owner said, “der Techniker  ist im Urlaub.”  So the tech is on vacation this week and I can bring it back on Monday. ‘Scheiße’ I thought to myself and then I thought, hey, I can go out and take a few pictures. It’s such a blue, sunny day after all. And so I did. We often go out and about without ever...

A beautifully designed piece of architecture located at the epicenter of the dynamic West Chelsea art gallery district and at the foot of  Highline Park. I shot this in August, 2010.  The geometry of this building is pleasing to the eye. Tamarkin Co  456 West 19th Street 456 West 19th Street 456 West 19th Street 456 West 19th Street ...