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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Small fir by the trail
A pleasant winter walk in the woods.
A New Year’s Eve walk in the woods
We followed coyote and bobcat footprints up the snowy logging roads behind the house on Friday.
Beautiful flash blur in the orchard
I love this effect. And the neat thing about digital is that you get instant feedback on whether or not you’ve done it right.
On the other hand, I still haven’t figured out how to print digital BW so that the prints can be hand colored…. a longer topic for another post.
photo: Pear tree and moon, digital black and white, 2010
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
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.