Posts Tagged ‘art’

The Blue Book
Following up on yesterday’s announcement of XGRAY VISION 2008, I decided to go ahead and announce The Blue Book, which has a completely different focus to it.
I’ve actually been meaning to put this one together for a while now. I get a lot of good feedback on my sky photos and really enjoy [...]

XGRAY VISION 2008
XGRAY VISION 2008 is a year-end retrospective of photos taken in the past year. An eclectic collection, which shows the highlights and direction of my photographic work during 2008.
40 pages/ 51 photos
Available through my online bookstore at Blurb.com.
From the book jacket:
This book is the second XGRAY VISION year-end review and the end result [...]

Canon EOS 40D w/EF 35mm f/2 (digital color)

Canon EOS 40D (digital color)
Where I work for my day job, on a university campus, there tends to be a lot of banners hanging from various poles, balconies, bridges, etc. To keep them from blowing away in the wind, they’re usually weighted down with water bottles. Maybe not the best use of water, but there [...]

Photo © Chris Norris
I’ve come across this photo a couple of times online now and each time I find myself going back and just staring at it. It’s really full of emptiness–emphasis on full–as what is implied by the photo (objects, actions, and time) far exceeds what is actually present in the frame. This photo [...]

Canon EOS 1N using Kodak Portra 160NC
This is another example of me shooting the same subject over and over with variations in time of day, equipment, and composition.
Here’s the digital version taken in June of 2007.

I like the color in the original better. Not because it was shot on digital, but because it was taken [...]

Shot with a Canon EOS 1N and Kodak Ultra Color 400UC
Shot this just last Friday on the way home from work. Made my wife pull over and wait while I jumped out and took the photo. That was the plan. I’d seen that this shadow was back** a few days earlier and wanted to get [...]