Hoola Hoop fun, Washington Square Park, New York, summer 2006. Featured / AMERICAS ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free – Expressions of Artists Copyright
Riding on Float, Gay Pride Parade, Summer 2006, New York City SOLD Challenge Finalist / Strike a Pose: The Human Position Analyzed Copyright
Riding on a Float, Gay Pride Parade, Summer 2006, New York. Featured / MAJOR EVENT – Photography/Journalism Featured / The Woman Photographer SOLD Copyright
Diners and their dogs add to the colorful view at local eatery on Manhattan’s East Side. SOLD Copyright
Reflection in a store window in midtown Manhattan, NYC. Featured / Shopfronts Featured / Urban Art SOLD Copyright
Local Manhattan restaurant at closing time. SOLD Copyright
Spry, grizzled tap dancer in Washington Square Park, New York, May 2007. Featured / Elderly Copyright
Candid, Washington Square Park, New York Featured / Men Appreciation group SOLD Copyright
Hey! Back off, buddy! That seagull is MINE!! Don’t you just hate it when other photographers invade on your territory? (all in good fun, guys :P)
Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
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Looking downward at the street from 35 floors up with figure heading into the light. Click once on image to enlarge. / / / /
Featured in “DIMENSIONS” on October 5, 2009 and in “NEW JERSEY SCENERY” on October 6 2009 This is a New Jersey view of Manhattan during an October full moon in 2007. Shot at f8 1/60 sec iso 200 with a Canon 1DS and at 135mm.
Times Square roof tops, Mid-Town Manhattan, New York City. / Jan 2009 / Nikon D80 w/24-120mm VR / Featured / Jan 31- Feb**, 2009 Group – Nikon D80 Users
Jean M. Laffitau
Jean M. Laffitau
Jean M. Laffitau
Meow Meow – The Cat that got the Cream. Model: Meow Meow / MUA: Kate Watts aka Diamond Fox / Lighting Co-ordinator & Assistant: Jeff Paine / Personal Assistant: Miserys Malice / Dress by Howard Showers / Boots are model’s own Shot on location in my hotel room Melbourne, Australia – September ‘08. / Yes, I am finally putting it up. - I had the tremendous pleasure and amazing experience of shooting Meow Meow, the cabaret superstar last September when I ventured over to Melbourne. I personally love this image, and can’t believe I am the one that shot it. / What made it even better was when she informed me 3 months later that this image was featured promoting her Christmas season show in the New York Times. / What more could a girl ask for from Santa ;) Meow Meow’s Official site: www.meowmeowrevolution.com / New York Times feature: New York Times Copyright 2009 Harmony Nicholas & Meow Meow Sydney peeps, look out for this in October at the ART Sydney Fair… ;)
Taken from a field over looking Kirby Underdale and the Vale of York on a very foggy early evening in November 2008 this photo shows the fog settling down in the valley beyond a lone tree and hale bale
During a sunny day I capture this girl crossing the street. With some manipulation and digital enhancement I turned it into a night shot.
90922 very overcast day, heavy police presence in NYC today. Queensboro Bridge AKA 59th St. Bridge. There was no bridge walking today due to a heightened level of security. © jc warburton 09, Nikon D90,Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5 – 5.6 VR lens. Tone mapping effect added. Featured in: AW Welcome Center Sept. 09.
Best View Larger! Featured in DSLR Users Only – 1/24 – Camera & Lens In Description Please group. Jeffery Palm a friend, a photographer, and a fellow Red Bubbler standing at the bottom studying his camera settings. I was on top of the bank shooting down. Beautiful waterfalls in a small village Avon, New York state and just off the highway a short distance. thanks Jeff for the day and buying my lunch. Canon 50D / Sigma 17-70mm lens / Tripod / TV Mode
Jan 2009 / Nikon D80 w/ 24-120mm VR Featured in JPG Cast-Offs – November 8, 2009
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