A crack in the concrete

April 10, 2016 by Howard Dale Posted in Abstracts, Black & White Leave a comment

I recently posted (A couple of short videos) a video interview with David Bailey in which he said:

I never understand when people say I don’t know what to photograph. Just look at a concrete wall with cracks in it and you can paint for eternity. I’m never at a loss to find out what to do next. It’s all there. All you have to do is open your eyes.

So after taking some pictures of the picnic shelter near Pelton Pond I’m sitting at one of the tables when I notice this crack in the concrete floor. So I thought – why not?

People in windows

January 24, 2016 by Howard Dale Posted in Abstracts, Black & White, Buildings/Structures, People Leave a comment

I was walking the dog in Briarcliff Manor when I noticed the geometric pattern of the bright windows against the darkness outside. The people seen through the windows add a human dimension to an otherwise abstract pattern.

Light patterns

January 24, 2016 by Howard Dale Posted in Abstracts, Black & White Leave a comment

While waiting for my wife to emerge from our local health club (she does dance/exercise classes there) I noticed these patterns being made by the light shining through a glass roof.

Blurred Highlights

January 18, 2016 by Howard Dale Posted in Abstracts Leave a comment

As I recall I was “fiddling around” while waiting for my food in the Executive Diner on Route 9a in Hawthorne, NY. The camera is certainly a Sony NEX-5n and I suspect the lens is an old manual focus Canon 50mm f1.4 in Leica Thread Mount (I think this was the lens because I know that other pictures taken around the same time were taken with it). It was taken through a glass partition – hence the lines, which were a pattern on the glass. There seem to be a lot of highlights in the background, but I can’t recall exactly what they were or why there were so many.

2015 Favorites – Color

December 28, 2015 by Howard Dale Posted in Abstracts, Flowers, Landscapes, Nature, People, Things Leave a comment

The British are coming.

The previous post highlighted my favorite black and white pictures from 2015. This one deals with my favorite color pictures (again in no particular order).