Keefer Photography

Hand-colored black and white photograph, 8 by 10 inches. No. 0201.

$25 at Etsy.

This is the first in a new series of black and white photographs I have been making of the forest at twilight and at night, lit primarily — or only — by the harsh light of an on-camera flash. While on-camera flash has been rightly derided as unflattering in a lot of situations, I like the stark, almost documentary look it brings to photos in the woods.

These were shot on Tri-X on a Pentax LX, with 28mm/2.8 lens and 280T flash.

The prints, on Luminos Charcoal paper, are lightly hand colored with acrylic paint and are signed and dated.

Hand-colored black and white photograph, 11 by 14 inches. No. 0147. $50 at Etsy.

Hand-colored black and white photograph, 11 by 14 inches. #0086-1. $50 at Etsy.

Hand-colored photograph, 11 by 14 inches. No. 0070.

$50 at Etsy.

This young Great Horned Owl was as curious about me as I was about him. (Or her?)

Paul Viel writes on his blog Art for the Soul about my hand-colored photography:

” …Browsing through Bob’s excellent website is like taking a journey into two worlds at the same time.

“One is a world of hand colored tintypes drenched in tradition. Time faded and rich looking images that give me the illusion of the past captured by Louis Daguerre on one of the first cameras then given life through Bob’s sharp state of the art skill and sense of understated color.

“The other world is one of discovery in seeing parts our world for the first time. There is a wonderful image on his site of a simple crude brick wall declaring a religious festival that takes me back to some of the visits I had to Puerto Vallarta in October and image of the Zabriskie Badlands of Death Valley that takes your breath away. “

Thanks!

Hand-colored black and white photograph, 11 by 14 inches. No. 0086. $50 at Etsy.

Hand-colored black and white photograph, 11 by 14 inches. No. 0085. $50 at Etsy.

Hand-colored black and white photograph, 11 by 14 inches. No. 0084. $50 at Etsy.

Hand-colored black and white photograph, 11 by 14 inches. No. 0083. $50 at Etsy.

Hand-colored black and white photograph, 11 by 14 inches. No. 0082. $50 at Etsy.