Bob Keefer
Is a writer and photographer who lives in rural Oregon. This is an informal blog with no particular purpose other than to give myself something to do with some of the welter of photographs I take each day.
For more considered work, see my hand-colored photography at BobKeeferPhoto.com.
You can email me at bob/at/bkpix.com.
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Another “new” 16×20 hand colored print
I popped this 2008 photo of a ranch gate in Harney County — that’s Oregon’s high-desert cowboy country, east of the Cascades — out of a frame to rotate in another photo this morning. Then I realized I had never put it on the website.
The picture was taken on a very cold day at Roaring Springs Ranch, south of Frenchglen. It is very, very lightly colored, so that in some light it still looks black and white. Look closer, though, and you find subtle hints of winter color.
photo: Harney gate, 2008
New hand colored photos — and big, too!
Photo: Forest path, 16×20 hand colored black and white photo, 2010
Here are three new hand-colored prints that I was able to enjoy finishing up on a rainy Sunday afternoon. All are from recent black and white excursions into the woods around our house. This one, above, shows the trail that leads from our driveway to the upper well; I walk up that way several times a week.
One big difference to most of the work you see on this site is that these prints are big: 16 by 20 inches. When I get around to posting them in the sales gallery I will have to make a new price category for them. (I’ll also have to note that matting won’t be included, as it would be unrealistically expensive to pack and ship a matted photo of this size.)
Below, a look at a group of ferns and a very abstract flash blur of some viney maple.
photo: Ferns, 16×20 hand colored black and white photo, 2010
photo: Trees, 16×20 hand colored black and white photo, 2010
A storm at the Oregon Coast
We came over to the coast for a long weekend — without rain gear. It will be a quiet weekend inside….
photo: Rain, 2010
Flash-blur in medium format
Here’s a quick flash-blur shot in the woods taken on the Pentax 645. It’s not stunning, but I really like the way the vines creeping up the front of the tree to the right were outlined in shadow. That’s an effect I keep working to replicate, not always successfully.
Again, one to be colored and reposted.
New work from the black and white photo factory
Here’s the trail that leads up to the well behind our house; I shot it yesterday on the Pentax 645 and printed this morning while listening to Dick Dale & the Deltones’ Greatest Hits on the stereo in the darkroom.
The light in the Oregon woods is splendid at times, with the cloudy sunlight filtering through the trees like a the glow from a giant soft box.
I’ll re-post the image once I have done a hand colored print of it.