Natural Lens Photography

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  • Cincinnati, Ohio skyline from atop Mount Adams, Celestial Towers overlook.  We in Cincy enjoy our share of bright, sunny days.  We also experience more than our share of dark, foreboding, and even eerie weather.  These are the days that make us want to stay inside and binge-watch Netflix.  But when we venture outdoors on those dark days, we can experience a quiet calm, a serenity that, on sunny days, is interrupted by the dominant glare and heat from our star.  While I prefer the energy that comes from basking in the bright sunlight, I've learned to embrace the quiet time in the Dark City.The title Dark City is also homage to the 1998 stylishly gloomy suspense movie by that name.  Thankfully, Cincinnati is not as dark as this fictional city.
  • Edmund Pettus Bridge - Selma, ALThe Edmund Pettus Bridge has become one of the most hallowed sites in America's civil rights history.   The 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama became known as Bloody Sunday because it ended in state troopers beating nonviolent protesters as they tried to cross the bridge with the name Edmund Pettus emblazoned across the steel beam.  Aside from being a two-term U.S. senator and a Confederate general, Pettus was a Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. When legislators decided to name the bridge after Pettus in 1940, there was no mistaking the message they wanted to send.   Today, Selma is a quiet little town, but the Edmund Pettus Bridge still stands, and is the nations only marker that has gone from honoring white supremacy to becoming a great monument to racial equality.  Much has changed since Bloody Sunday, but racism is still alive and well in America…it just looks different.
  • Memorial Hall OTC Cincinnati, OHI stumbled on this scene while wandering around Memorial Hall.  I was given full access to the entire building except the basement for safety reasons, and I was determined to take full advantage of the opportunity.  These images were taken before the 2016 renovations.  The main auditorium, entrance foyer and stairwells were magnificent prior to the facelift, each adorned in marble and bronze.  I had captured most of these highlights and was about to leave when I noticed a narrow concrete staircase behind the main stage leading up to an open door.  It looked like a toilet from the stairs but when I entered the doorway I saw this charming parlor with the light from an open window gently illuminating the furnishings.   It was as though I was looking at a dressing room from a 1950 's movie set.
  • This digital triptych is all about visual form; broad sweeping curves, streaming verticals, contrasting texture coming together to give the viewer, I hope, a sense of calm soothing motion yet with a measure of visceral urgency.  One of my favorite Tao images.
  • Memorial Hall Over the Rhine Cincinnati, Ohio.  As I left the vintage parlor shown in the previous image, I noticed a narrower, more dimly lit stairway at the end of the hall that led up to another level.   I was reluctant to venture into the darkness since this area was clearly off limits.  Although the space was very dusty and had a musty smell,  I proceeded not knowing what lay ahead.   There was a single closed door at the top of the stairs and this image is what I saw when I opened the door and entered the space.  The natural light from the open window against the rugged brick, iron and masonry interior was irresistible, an alluring yet eerie scene.This image of the attic area is typically not accessible to patrons.
  • This triptych was taken near the historic Cincinnati community of Liberty Hill.  I was intrigued by the way light, color and texture of the garden wall, and the vines and plants seemed to meld naturally into a unified whole.
  • The Dayton Street Historic District, formerly {quote}Millionaires Row{quote} West End Cincinnati, Ohio, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on Jan. 25, 1973.  Bounded by Bank Street, Poplar Street, Linn Street, and Winchell Avenue  (West End).  The Dayton Street Historic District area is a homogenous, built-up series of blocks, containing a group of representative 19th century detached town houses. The area was once the 19th century residential area for wealthy beer brewers and pork packers of Cincinnati. The majority of the buildings were erected between 1850 and 1890, and they are generally masonry, two- or three-story Italianate style homes. Low decorative iron fences and stone posts add to the area's strong sense of time and place.
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