Robert W Peabody III
Sails
Selenium-toned silver print
From the series Conanicut Island
We were driving over the Longfellow Bridge in Cambridge when she noticed the small boats moving in unison on the Charles River, and she said, “They are doing their ballet”. When I came around the east side of Beavertail on this Sunday afternoon, I noticed many small boats performing their ballet. I also noticed the sky and water were a seamless, deep-blue tone.
By the time the camera was set up, the small boats were gone and larger boats were arranged as you see in the print. In his books, Ansel Adams cautioned against the use of empty black areas in an image. This warning was the inspiration for a time I call the “black period”.
Take advantage of what is there, by making use of what is not.
-Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching
Shot with a yellow orange filter, pushed two stops in PYRO, developed in undiluted Dektol, printed on Oriental Seagull grade 5 -a paper contrast grade that is no longer being manufactured.
Sails
Selenium-toned silver print
From the series Conanicut Island
We were driving over the Longfellow Bridge in Cambridge when she noticed the small boats moving in unison on the Charles River, and she said, “They are doing their ballet”. When I came around the east side of Beavertail on this Sunday afternoon, I noticed many small boats performing their ballet. I also noticed the sky and water were a seamless, deep-blue tone.
By the time the camera was set up, the small boats were gone and larger boats were arranged as you see in the print. In his books, Ansel Adams cautioned against the use of empty black areas in an image. This warning was the inspiration for a time I call the “black period”.
Take advantage of what is there, by making use of what is not.
-Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching
Shot with a yellow orange filter, pushed two stops in PYRO, developed in undiluted Dektol, printed on Oriental Seagull grade 5 -a paper contrast grade that is no longer being manufactured.