The Arts and Photography website of Ephraim Peniston

elapsedepoch.com showcases well traveled photography of landscapes mountains the stars cities and villages as well as new and unique drawings rust drawings and digital drawings.

http://www.elapsedepoch.com/

ALAN D. WILLIAMS- distinctive photo.graphic images - Original Abstract Photography for Interior Decorating

Photo-Abstractions: original photographs which look like abstract paintings. Decorating with photography abstract photography: a vision. These Photo-Abstractions photographs represent some of my visual ideas. While working with conventional photographic equipment and materials, I wanted to create a nonrepresentational impression in the images, a feeling that they were not literal interpretations of their subjects as is usually done in photography, but how the subjects might be understood in more elemental terms of form and color. Although pictures such as these could be made by manipulating original photographs with an image editing computer program or even be produced solely on a computer, I use only optical and chemical methods to create my Photo-Abstractions. They are scanned and printed by a professional photographic laboratory using computer control, but with my strict instructions to the lab to match the optical originals as closely as possible so that no electronic manipulation of the image occurs.

http://www.adwphoto.com

Lost America: Wheels

Troy Paiva is a commercial artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. For his entire adult life he has been an abandonment explorer and back-roads wanderer, especially at night. Sneaking around in junkyards and dead roadside towns in the middle of the night, he was doing Urban Exploration years before the term even existed. In the late 80 s, he sat in on a few night photography classes and when the subject of light-painting came up briefly, he had a revelation. Here were techniques that were perfect to capture the atmosphere and mystery of these modern ghost towns. The time-exposures allow the stars to spiral in space and the clouds to smear ethereally across the sky. Through the 90s he developed and perfected his technique of simple, yet effective, hand-held lighting. Since 1998 lostamerica.com has been online in one form or another. Over the past 9 years his low cost high impact lighting techniques have been implemented by amateur and professional photographers all over the world. Many of the places and objects in these photos are already gone; bulldozed, burned down, subdivided, melted for scrap or just vanished under the shifting desert sand. In 2003, his book Lost America was published by Motorbooks International, receiving positive reviews in newspapers and magazines worldwide. With over 145 color and black & white images and 4 in-depth essays, it examines the evolution and eventual abandonment of the communities, structures and social iconography spawned during this country s 20th century western expansion.

http://www.designshed.com/lostamerica/index.html

Pinhole Photography Fine Art Photographers

Pinhole photography portfolio of photographer Thomas Hudson Reeve. The modern camera is a wonderful thing, but it s nice to remember how simple the mechanism can be. You can strip away the technology until there is little left but the abstraction on which the machine is based. A simple manipulation of space, a few materials, and a couple of hand tools and the magic physics is at your fingertips without sophisticated engineering. To simplify these cameras as much as possible I made them out of the 11x14 inch photo-paper itself. There is no film in the camera because the camera is the film. Like a salad bowl made of lettuce leaf, and consumed with the meal, the camera doesn t exist after its utility is fulfilled. There is no machine. It is more of an arrangement than a thing. Since it is color paper, sensitive to the full spectrum of visible light, there is no safe light recommended for darkroom work. Each paper box camera is cut, folded, and constructed in the dark and kept in a dark bag until its moment in the sun has come. The pinhole in the brass plate is all that is needed to project an image into the inside surface of the box more on that later , but light also seeps through the cracks and flaps of the box construction and soaks through the black tape that holds the whole thing together. The streaks and burns and flares that appear on the final image are the result of this ambient radiation and although it can be somewhat controlled, it also depends largely on random factors. Back in the darkroom, the brass lens plate is folded back like a hatch-cover in the Mark I the Rectangle , revealing the hole in the box. In the Mark II The Square the lens plate caps the apex of the pyramid and can be removed by tearing away the tape that holds it in place. A funnel is placed in the hole and the camera becomes like a leaky juice carton as the chemicals are poured in and sloshed around for a couple of minutes each. Rigorous adherence to optimal chemistry technique is...

http://www.papercams.com

Pat O Hara Photography

Pat O Hara s adventurous career as an environmental and fine art photographer has rewarded him with the reputation of a professional leader. Publishers, curators, peers and aspiring photographers have praise for his talents. Contemporary travel takes him to domestic and international locations to photograph parklands, nature reserves and cultural monuments many of which are remotely located. Pat s color photography has been showcased in seventeen books. Washington Wilderness, The Unfinished Work , with writer Harvey Manning and Washington s Wild Rivers, with writer poet Tim McNulty both published by The Mountaineers Books, Seattle were important regional contributions early in his career on behalf of wilderness preservation. Pat s work was featured in the Woodlands Press National Parks books, an award-winning series designed by McQuiston and Partners of Del Mar, California. His extensive publication history encompasses trade books, magazines, calendars, greeting cards, posters, advertisements, and electronic mediums. Commercial clients such as Fuji Film USA, Levi s, Eddie Bauer, Northwest Airlines, and General Motors have used Pat s photography for advertising

http://www.patohara.com/