September 2006
Here's a photo I took after I'd had my first digital camera for a few months. Of course Autumn is a great time for shooting color. The overhanging trees were just starting to ...
About: Mark
Website: http://www.forestrat.com
Bio: This is a blog about the things I like - fine art photography, art in general, poetry, and technology. Sometimes I'll post as myself and sometimes I'll use one of my alter egos, Rufus McGurk the art guy or Marko-san the haiku poetry guy.
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Author: Mark Whitney
Set the WABAC machine to 2006
I've been taking photographs for a long time, all the way back to the dark ages when we had to use film and chemicals. Although I miss the smell of a fresh new ...
I Try My Hand at Digital Art
The other day I was reading about Vincent Van Gogh and how after moving to Paris he shifted from the muted color tones of the typical Dutch master painters to a more colorful ...
Ariadne’s Afternoon
The last painting on our blogseum tour of finding the story in art is Ariadne's Afternoon from 1982 by Richard Serra. Hmmmm, not much to go on here. Is there a story in ...
The Gathering of Manna (Il miracolo della manna)
As I promised in the opening post for this tour on finding the story in art, this is "The Gathering of Manna" painted by Ottavio Vannini in 1635.
But ...
Finding the Story in Art
My next few posts are going to be about looking at art works and finding the stories they tell. Some of the stories are easy to find and some take a little digging, ...
Why Bother?
"No one is interested in my art so why should I even bother doing it?" This thought has crossed my mind way more that once.
Geometric Photography
A while back I had the chance to photograph an old steel bridge that spanned the Erie canal. It had been declared unsafe for traffic and was blocked off for a couple years ...
Not to be Trusted
A few posts back we talked about the idea that some artists get stuck in a rut creating similar works over and over again throughout their career. And then there are the artists ...
Moses has horns. What’s up with that?
If you look closely at Moses in this image of a circa 1621 painting by Giovanni Lanfranco you can see that the painter has stuck a couple of horns on his head. What's ...
What’s wrong with this picture?
Have you ever tried swinging a big scythe like this one? It ain't easy believe me.
I grew up on a small farm that had a barn built by ...