Using the photo on the left, I painted the book cover on the right. I wanted show how you can use a photograph, as a base, for a story. In this case the story is: Did the Four Winds get traded for the West Wright Potter before the Potter (or the author) sailed off into the GAP’s sunset? Keep coming back – the end of the book has not been written yet.
Jim wrote: You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a boat. I had a number of “bay boats”, canoes, kayaks, sunfish, windsurfers. I can’t help but rub it into my family with a photo like this when I am boating in my open outboard, padding my canoe, or boating through the Gap at night in my Four Winns inboard/outboard. Actually, I used this photo to entice them to come visit and spend a week with me. I feel this photo belongs in a magazine sailing (selling) the good life idea.
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. Tundra Swans. They breed in the high Arctic and migrate thru NY state in the late fall. They stop on the larger lakes in NY on their way to the Chesapeak Bay area where they winter. Dave
I wroter:Here is another Gap photo – and an other life of me photo. In another life and another Island, as an ordained minister, I performed many weddings, most performed in the church with small to moderate sized parties. Some were performed outside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with a wedding party of a hundred. So, years later, a small informal wedding on Whitney Bay, overlooking the Gap, caught my attention. In order to not disturb them, I peeked around my bushes to take the interesting snapshot, showing the Gap in the background. One more Gap photo was added to my photo library.
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. Tundra Swans. They breed in the high Arctic and migrate thru NY state in the late fall. They stop on the larger lakes in NY on their way to the Chesapeak Bay area where they winter. Dave
Jim wrote: When the Swans arrived on Drummond Island – it was one of those things that someone saw them and shouted “The swans are back” and eveyone ran to look out toward the gap to see them swim by. When a swan flies, it exhibits incredible smooth strength in it’s wings – really it’s whole body is a thing of graceful strength with it’s neck outstreatched to the front and it’s feet outstreatched to the back. Check it out on Dave’s photo below.
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. Tundra Swans. They breed in the high Arctic and migrate thru NY state in the late fall. They stop on the larger lakes in NY on their way to the Chesapeak Bay area where they winter. Dave
Now My Gap:
“I am ‘rephotographer‘ because I have at least 100 photos of Great Lake Freighters in the gap. This is a 1,000 footer heading for the Soo Locks and into the Lake that holds the Edmund Fitzgerald. I am aiming for the nine ten and I bet I see her there.” (That last sentence is Island language)
Ponies are slow compared to planes. Yesterday I wrote about the youth experiencing the responsibilities of flying RC airplanes. I predicted the experience would help him prepare to manage a fast changing world. This 80 year box camera photo shows me experiencing one of the responsibilities of owning farm animals. Farm responsibilities were a strong part of the experience of youth in those rural homes. I believe it helped us have a positive impact on those we touched throughout the slower changing future of 1944.
This photo story is about the 30 year future. Wish I could see it. Folks, from the generation of this young man in red, will be managing our world. Amazing, he is already a certified Radio Controlled pilot. Those beside him could be a retired fighter pilot and a commercial airline pilot. Their planes are connected to satellites, giving the pilot information, and in some instances doing safety moves for him. Soon he will communicate his take-off plans and the run-way will be his. The senior pilots respond knowing the young man is in control of the run-way air space at that time. This experience is building technical and social skills as well as confidence to help his generation manage our word, when cities will need to handle 100’s of millions, colonies on planets will need support, planes, trains, and automobiles will all be pilotless, and things we never thought of will need solutions.
Our “The Great Outdoors” community is blessed with an array of weather conditions that produce special clouds for the base of creative photo art .
TGO is geographically blessed with an array of weather conditions that produce our cumulus clouds. They reflect, casting light and shadows in our lakes and canals, creating beautiful pieces of art that change moment by moment. The art is just there, not a once in a life time beautiful view, but a ho-hum beautiful view we can see almost anytime, like this one with a gator just adding a point of interest.
I want to see other’s life styles when I set out to do “Street Photography”. I, also, want to be sure I do not present a judgement of what I see. My joy is in seeing how others live.
This photo is near the Fashion Institute of Technology, a college connecting technology to the fashion industry, in Manhattan, NYC. The top image is as me and my camera saw it.
In the second image I added a store front awning I photographed on another street in Manhattan. The two photographs together made me laugh. That is why I enjoy photographing the streets of NYC.
