new work from “Vale of Cashmere” Prospect Park Brooklyn.

Featuring me-and my mini project Flyover States in full multimedia mode. See you there.

In other news, a big $100 donation for Team for Kids has come in and someone will be the lucky recipient of a whopping 16×16 or whatever they want of this:

Film baby yeah!

Only $2325 to go. Donate here remembering my name “Wright” and number 361112! Instructions here.

getting pretty close to perfect. Yesterday I had most of the factors working in my favour, a steady stream of jets overhead, some puffy clouds, the right vector, victor.

Still not there though. He’s not centered on the pin, the cloud is a little too big in the frame, it feels heavy on the left. But he is “on” the pin, there is no overlap, no space. At least in the pixel realm of 400% enlargement, you cannot tell.

And a reminder that for a small tax deductible donation to Team For Kids, you can have a print from me. $50 gets you whatever you want from me. Smaller donations are also welcome. 18 weeks to the New York City Marathon…

I submitted this under editorial, a story for New York Times on single dads who have elected to have children but not through marriage. Steve Harris conceived Ben with a surrogate mother and donor egg. The playpen in the office allows Ben to visit his dad at the Law office, however I am pretty sure the Nanny is always nearby.

I picked this mainly because it is funny and attention grabbing, it is not however the image that ran. What can you say, it’s a crapshoot…

Under personal unpublished I submitted this excerpt from the series “Flyover States.”

This was the description:

“I would like to go back to a time when a solitary aircraft flying overhead was an object of wonder and beauty instead of suspicion and dread. The aircraft are purposely rendered small and visible only in high magnifications, dissolving into grain,  passing or intersecting a boundary between existence and disappearance from sight.”

I played with the idea of having dyptics where I would actually enlarge the section in question to show how the image dissolves into grain, or in this case, noise. Unfortunately digital images as pixels do not enlarge the way that film images break up into grain. Very quickly you get square pixels. Someone needs to invent a stochastic image sensor.

It is very hard to look at these pictures and not feel something awful might happen. The military has used silhouettes as enemy aircraft identification training since the dawn of flight. Yet the silhouette of a bird carries no such connotation.

Yes I know I don’t have a hope in hell of winning PDN. YMMV.

Apropos of Rachel Hulin getting her bokeh-on, I received back from repair my M6, and doesn’t he look spiffy sporting his new Noctilux! 

and more flyover states, using the noct but in it’s other guise as a normal lens:

Here is a detail to show you that I missed it…by that much…

reminds me of this one of mine earlier:

you can barely see it but that dot is not a stuck pixel, it is a bird. So is this just pure photographic formalism?