Allen James Photography

Some More Glass and Ornaments Pics

2009-01-20T00:21:00.022-05:00

I decided to put up a few more of the previous series of pictures, I thought that some of these others turned out nice as well. For upcoming posts I thought that I might focus on some of the old cameras that I have. I will post pictures as well as specifications for each camera, I will alternate between different series of pictures and different selected cameras from my collection. While I am on the subject of cameras, here is my tools of the trade.

Current DSLR:

Canon EOS Rebel XT (8 meg)
Canon EFS 18-55mm f3.5
Canon EF 75-300mm Zoom f4

My First SLR:

Canon TX 35mm Camera Body (1975) Fully Manual, rebuilt in 2002
Canon lens 50mm f1.8
Canon lens Zoom 100mm to 200mm f5.6
Tokina lens 28mm f2.8

Dried Flowers

Brass Girl (Fairy)

More Glass

Brass Girl (Fairy)

More Glass

Brass Girl (Fairy)

A Glass Cat

A Glass Mouse

A Blue Bird

A Cardinal Bird

A Family of Snowman

Kosta Boda - Goran Warff - Art Glass

2008-12-22T00:48:00.035-05:00

I bought a piece of art glass while shopping with my wife at a Danish furniture store a little while back. While walking around the store I saw this piece of art, I say art because it has no function other than a paper weight. It has a very nice shape (a twisted rectangular shape, with the top chopped of on an angle), nice color (it is almost clear with a hint of green), there is a hollow indent underneath almost the shape of an egg (see the picture below). In any case, I kept coming back to look at it, it kept grabbing my attention.This piece was originally not for sale, it did not have a price on it. I think that it was a piece that they had on a wood bookcase meant to show off the bookcase. I asked the clerk if it was for sale and could I purchase it. At first he was not sure, he went to the back of the store and emerged a little later with a price of around $110. So I purchased the piece. My wife purchased a very nice vase at the same time.

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(Top, Left, Right, Front)

Company: Kosta Boda, Sweden Est 1742
Web: http://www.kostaboda.com/experience/index.html?lang=en
Artist/Designer: Goran Warff
Signed: Yes
Serial Number: 98806

Goran Warff represents two artistic eras at Kosta Boda. He first joined the company in 1964 from a smaller Swedish glassworks and studies in industrial design at a Bauhaus-influenced school in Ulm, Germany. After 10 years of helping define a style with his innovative designs and processes, Goran took leave for Australia, then England, where he worked and taught. He returned to Kosta Boda in 1984, and as before, created designs that have defined their times in glass artistry. Like other artists and craftspeople of Kosta Boda this native of the island of Gotland, Sweden, is inspired by the immediacy of nature, of sea and sky, forest and farm, experienced by all Swedes, including city dwellers. His trademark designs are organic in form - most often hand-worked right out of the furnace - that draw on the qualities of glass as a viscous fluid frozen into gleaming crystal.

"Every glass object is unique. For the observer, it’s an encounter with optics – the glass sings and glitters with light. I want my glass to open the observer’s mind, to capture the sound of light as it rings and echoes through the piece. I want it to inspire," says Göran Wärff.

The common denominator of the pieces on show is vivid colour, which Wärff uses to accent the transparency of the glass; red, green and blue, according to his fancy, underscore the fluid motion of the glass and give it life, while judiciously placed cuts heighten our appreciation of the piece still further.

Göran Wärff is an internationally acclaimed glass artist who has participated in over forty exhibitions the world over. He is represented at design and glass museums in the U.S.A., Japan, Australia, Europe and South Africa.

At Kosta Boda, Göran Wärff is something of a doyen of design. With more than forty years’ experience of his chosen profession, he has acquired deep-seated knowledge of the potential of glass and its inherent limitations, working always in close collaboration with the master craftsmen at Kosta glassworks. Often he issues his own personal challenges to the rest of the team, seeking new approaches and new ways of forming the glowing melt, the liquid that is glass.

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This is the Vase that My Wife Girly bought

The other day I was bored and I wanted to take some pictures, so I decided to take some macro pictures of some of our glass pieces. I was surprised with the outcome, I have included some of the results below.

Macro Pictures of the Goran Warff Piece..

Macro Pictures of the Vase above..

Happy Holidays to All!

Allen

RAMSEY DAILY PHOTO: V- IS FOR VACANT

2008-12-16T22:20:00.000-05:00

Here is another Blog that I follow..

RAMSEY DAILY PHOTO: V- IS FOR VACANT

365 to 42: Hey i've got a secret

2008-12-16T22:18:00.000-05:00

Here is a blog that I am Following..

Check it out.

365 to 42: Hey i've got a secret

Faces of all kinds from different places.

2008-12-11T04:31:00.000-05:00

Colorful faces

Looking for money

I thought "ET" went home!

* I did not actually take this Photo, My Brother Brian did, I just edited out the people that were standing on either side.

Looking for more money

Famous Faces

Alien looking faces

Erie looking faces

Puzzeled looking faces

Dead faces

A face only a mother could love

Hip looking faces

Wise, smiling faces (Las Vegas)

Wise, Smiling faces (Las Vegas)

Cold faces (Montreal)

Prickly Surprised Faces (Montreal)

Implied Faces (Montreal)

Stop looking at me

Statuesque Faces (Las Vegas)

Mayan Faces (Mexico)

Shrunkin head Faces (Mexico)

Senior Frog faces (Mexico)

Painted faces (Mexico)

Kitchen Terrorist

My Wife Girly does not like taking pictures, this is her posing for one.

Me, having a bad hair day.

My Brother Brian, having the same bad hair day

Don't we look alike?

My brother Brian, just waking up, Grumpy.

Zack, Yelling at someone, for something.. (NJ)

His brother Nathanial, getting cought doing something he wasn't supposed to. (NJ)

My Son Collin laughing at Nathanial with the funny hat on (NJ)

My Son Collin on holloween, clowning around when he was younger

Collin and his friends goofing off

Rock Star (Brooks) trying out some new stage make-up

My Nephew Daniel on holloween, when he was younger

My Dog Tia Looking Cute, she will be a mother in one week

Tia when she was a few weeks old

What are the chances - Update!

2008-12-09T15:26:00.000-05:00

Here is the picture that I saw in my accountants office that looked familiar (#1 and #2) (see my original post below), #3 is the original photo that I had taken in alberta many years earlier.

(#1, the photo on the wall of my accounts office)

(#2, zoomed in..)

(#3, The original photo I had taken)

What are the chances!

Bellagio Water Show in Las Vegas, NV

2008-12-01T00:03:00.000-05:00

Hello,

I went to Las Vegas in May 2008, this is a clip of photos I put together of some of the Bellagio Water show.

Part 1.

Part 2.

the music was written and performed by yours truly.

Allen

Laborday Motorcycle Trip to Wildwood & Atlantic City

2008-11-03T12:53:00.000-05:00

During the long laborday weekend I took an extra day off, so I could ride my motorcycle (with my son Collin) for our first really long trip of the summer. I promissed my friend Trevor that I would come down to see him and that we could ride together before the end of the summer, collin was going to spend time with Trevors sons Zach and Nathaniel.

I packed up our stuff and headed out Friday morning for the first leg of the trip (682 km – about 8 hours), All went well, we stopped every two hours or so to stretch our legs, eat, nature break have coffee etc. For te last hour we caught some rain just as it was starting to get dark. We did not get that wet, just the bottom of the legs or our pants.

Sat:

Trevor and I set out for Point Pleasant NJ(C), almost directly east to the coast, they call it the shore points or Jersey Shore. From there we headed directly south along the coast to Atlantic City, Ocean City, Wildwood and Cape May. We Spent the night in Wildwood after a long day of driving.

Sun:

We Started back north toward Hamilton, NJ, on the way back to Trevor's we stopped for a nice steak dinner.

Mon:

On Monday morning I headed back to Montreal with my son Collin in tow.

Total number of Kilometers was approx 2000km.

Total number of hours riding that weekend almost 40hrs.

It was a great trip.

Map of our trip

This is me.

This is trevor. (who would have thought that you would find palm trees in Jersey!

Here are our rides! (Mine is on the right)

Atlantic City just before sunset.

I liked the reflections and the dark blues

Just a nice scene

I love anything made of glass, this was a glass sculpture of a wave I took a picture of at the mall in Atlantic City

This Guy kept looking at me funny!

I really liked the way she was standing!

Here Too.

Fall is Here Continued, Again!

2008-10-04T14:50:00.001-04:00

Fall is Here Continued!

2008-10-04T14:31:00.001-04:00

A few interesting characters come out at this time of year!

Allen

Fall is Here!

2008-10-03T15:01:00.001-04:00

Fall is here, and I am not looking forward to the coming cold weather and snow. I like this time of year for all it's contrasting colors, and long shadows in the late afternoon. My Wife and I go Riding on our motorcycle in and around the montreal area, enjoying the scenary and the wind in our faces. Here are some of the images that I have taken around this time of year around the Montreal area that remind me of the fall season.

More to Come soon..

Allen

What are the chances!

2008-10-02T13:16:00.001-04:00

These are images of barns that I saw out of the corner of my eye while driving between Red Deer and Calgary Alberta back in 1989/90, I actually did not have my camera with me at the time. I had to drive halfway back to Red Deer to get it. The urgency was that I was not sure it would still be standing the next time I happen to pass by it again.

A funny thing happened concerning one of the photos is that two years ago, I was in my accountant's office, one of my accountants friends was a photographer who had given him a number of his photos (blown up and framed) to hang in his office. One day while walking down the hall of his office I noticed a picture of a barn in a field that was falling over, I thought to myself that it looked familiar. Upon taking a closer look, I noticed that it was in fact the same barn taken a few years before or later I'm not sure. I ended up talking to the photographer to confirm this fact and it was in fact the same barn, he came upon it just like I did and could not resist taking a very similar photo. (I will have to now go and take a picture of it and put it up on the blog in the near future).

What are the chances!

Allen

Welcome to My Blog

2008-10-01T19:57:00.000-04:00

Welcome,

I started this blog to share my interest in photography with others!

Allen