Tag Archives: J. S. Oppenheim

Sailing and Photography: There Were People

Posted on August 6, 2013 by commart

The portrait studios may mill out family art, cool and professional with calculated warmth from much practiced methods, but it may be the humble snapshot, the impromptu recording, that turns out the more truly intimate artifact.  For that reason, and … Continue reading →

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An Exhausted Writer’s Retreat – Sunset, Blinds, Hunter Hill, May 1, 2013

Posted on May 1, 2013 by commart

On the old Oppenheim Arts & Letters, I had noted several times in its “19th Century” modern section the horror of having applied serious creative writing chops and energy to “chatyping” — that’s what I call all of this — at … Continue reading →

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Will Try to Slow It Down (Maybe)

Posted on March 3, 2013 by commart

This latest flurious posterbating comes of rediscovering old shots on the way to recompiling a collection that started as a block of 20,000 files and for backup was divided both by year and subject into a dozen separate Lightroom catalogs. … Continue reading →

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Fresh Prints – “American Farm Girl”, Washington County, Maryland, April 2010

Posted on February 6, 2013 by commart

Nothin’s over. I turned “Bertha” on and fed her fresh HP Vivera “Matte Black”, and she seems happy again turning out half a dozen of that above (white margins, no black border).  The print work she does remains impressive.  HP … Continue reading →

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Bad Snapshots

Posted on February 5, 2013 by commart

God only knows I didn’t set out to share with the world first-thing-in-the-morning snapshots from my kitchen window. God, however, has a wicked sense of humor. I wonder: have I spent too much time on Facebook? Playing guitar? Reading? Watching … Continue reading →

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I’ve Had Three Days

Posted on February 2, 2013 by commart

I’ve had three days, and I think that’s long enough to get over myself (and whatever it is that’s been bothering me and whose details I shall not divulge). I am a free man! Hot danish and Pete’s coffee — … Continue reading →

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Sandstone Girl and Snow

Posted on January 28, 2013 by commart

She was my mother’s favorite. For a long time, she had a life on the edge of a patio, but when she started to melt, she was put beneath an eave behind the house, my parent’s last, in Rockville, Maryland. … Continue reading →

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Chillin’, And You Would Be Too at Minus Nine Celsius

Posted on January 22, 2013 by commart

Very cool news: the studio brought in a little bit of web work, and I’m going to munch through those hours in just a little bit. In the preceding post, you saw Dean’s picture of me taking a picture (now … Continue reading →

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