In Black and White

As my dad has noted I brought my "new" old camera to Thanksgiving to take some black and white photos.  I took a photo class in the Fall semester in which I learned to use an large format (4 x 5 inch negatives) to take black and white photos.  I love it so much, I bought myself a format camera circa 1937 - Linhof Technika II Folding View Camera.

 

A couple of my early photos ... Local barn

 

The leaves on my deck

Next I did hands and animals

 Joe and Ginger

 Casey and Rosita

Leonard and Oppenheimer

and wedding hands

ME and Joe

I moved on to hands in motion and did some shots of Casey signing

 "Sign language"

 

 "Daughter"

"Excited"

As I was moving along with the project I kept coming back to the idea of hands in art.  My favorite being M.C. Escher's "Drawing Hands"

 

 Casey and Robbie

 

 Leonard and Shea

 Yogi and Ember

The Cathedral by Rodin

 

Casey and Robbie

 The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

 Beck and Chris

 Finally at Thanksgiving I included some "family" photos in which I tried some varied poses...

 Pritam and SatKaur

 Shea

 Kieran and Ed

 Dad