The PPS American Experience  Adams: A Documentary Film is worth every second of your time.

Ansel simply understood light. More precisely he took a specific quality of light that radiated on a specific place at an exact moment in time and made art. 

And THE book to have ...

You can never have enough books. And when they are about Ansel Adams pictures, you have to spread the word to buy it.

"Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs offers an exciting survey of his development as an artist. Of the themes and subjects that animate his work and of the evolution of a style that is uniquely that of Ansel Adams -- America's best-known and best-loved photographer."

Matthew G. Beall   My Ansel Adams Pictures  2011

Matthew G. Beall  Flowers and Leaves  2012

Matthew G. Beall  Flowers and Leaves 2   2012

In my previous post, Flowers on a Sunny Day in Ulm, Germany, I put up 3 photographs with two of them in black and white. Although I mostly do only black and white, it's sometimes necessary to use color to make the photograph as fine art work.  Sometimes color is simply more pleasing. 3 Flowers and Flowers with Yellow are the color versions of what was first B&W.

Matthew G. Beall   Beautiful Flowers    2012

Matthew G. Beall   3 Flowers with Yellow   2012

Matthew G. Beall    Flowers    2012

Matthew G. Beall    Flowers 2   2012

Not far from Ulm, Germany, stands an old barn in a farmer's field surrounded by soft, white fresh winter snow.

I am a visual artist. I am vision driven.

I make photographs. I am a photographer.

I make paintings.  I am a painter.

I believe that one should:
          
           Look, See, Think

• Look at what you See
• See what you Look at
• Think about what you See 

Matthew G. Beall  Wrap it Up (Workers)   2009

Matthew G. Beall   Shrouded Trees and an Empty Field    2011

Matthew G. Beall   Light & Shadow on a Painting and Blind  2012

Matthew G. Beall   Hyannis Port   2010 

Matthew G. Beall  Golden Gate Haze  2008

Matthew G. Beall   The Golden Gate Bend   2008

As I have said, there are many, many ordinary things of interest within the walls of my apartment. Light and shadow takes a mundane clay bowl and turns it into an object to look at. Light and dark. Contrast. Tones. Texture. The mundane, the everyday in black and white.

Matthew G. Beall  The Clay Bowl  2011

The ordinary can sometimes be made to be out of the ordinary. The mundane can sometimes be interesting. It is about vision. Visualize your shot: Look, See, Think.

Matthew G. Beall  Flughafen  2010

Matthew G. Beall  Baggage Carts Frankfurt  2010

It grew dark. The storm came. Rain. Wind. It grew light.

Matthew G. Beall  The Rain Storm: It Grew Dark  2011

Matthew G. Beall  The Rain Storm: Rain  2011

Matthew G. Beall  The Rain Storm: It Grew Light  2011

Tief ... das Sehen

in Dunkelheit

in Helligkeit

Matthew G. Beall  NYC Park  2010

soviel du siehst

ist es was du siehst?

Matthew G. Beall  NYC Park - 2  2010

Schau es an!

Schau mal genau hin

Matthew G. Beall  NYC Park - 3  2010

  Tief ... das Sehen

in Dunekheit

in Helligkeit

In my previous post, I said that everybody sees what they see. Sometimes what I see at the moment, isn't really as it appears. The ordinary, the mundane isn't always what it appears to be. 

Look, See, Think

Matthew G. Beall Photography   As It Appears   2011

  "Hey, look at that," is something we often say when we see things that somehow stand out. I think that's the point where we start to think about the thing we are looking at. It could be for a split second, but that's  enough for some to ponder the thing. Shadow has that affect on me.

I'm always on the lookout for interesting light and shadow. Very often I don't have to go far. I don't even have to leave my apartment.

Matthew G. Beall         2011

Matthew G. Beall Photography         2011

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 I was looking at older posts and came across this one from May 11, 2011. It is well worth revisiting. I see that I made them dark to make the subject of the mundane really focused. I wonder how I would approach that if I were to make these today ... but that's truly the beauty of creative photography and visualization, isn't it. 

Everybody sees what they see. I'm always on the lookout for interesting light and shadow. Sometimes it is found where most people tend not to look or, rather, don't look at. I am talking about the mundane. 

 “I see no reason for recording the obvious.” - Edward Weston

The Mundane

Matthew G. Beall  The Sink   2011

Matthew G. Beall  The Pipes  2011

Matthew G. Beall  The Box  2011

Chicago in black and white.

I like cities, big cities. Chicago is a big city with giant iconic skyscrapers. Some of these buildings allow you to stand on air 1,353 feet above ground.

Matthew G. Beall  1,353 Feet  2009/2011

 Views are seemingly endless.

Matthew G. Beall  Endless  2009/2011

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 Welcome to Urbana

 Big cities are awesome. Big cities are frightening. Big cities are fast.

 

Matthew G. Beall  Welcome to Urbana   2009/2011

Matthew G. Beall  The Big City  2009/2011

Matthew G. Beall  Look, It's a Plane  2009/2011

Matthew G. Beall   Urban Motion   2009/2011

Look, SEE, Think

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Urban - of or belonging to a city

Monochrome - a photograph or picture developed or executed in black and white or in varying tones of only one color.

Matthew G. Beall  Stuck in the Middle  2009/2011

Matthew G. Beall  7 Hanover Square  2010

Matthew G. Beall   Bordeaux    2010

Look, SEE, Think

Look at what you see.  SEE what you look at.  Think about what you SEE

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