Some Recent Philadelphia Photos

mikepenn

Hello all, this is my first post here.

lifeLike

I'm new here too and it's only my second post but have to say I love your images. I'm in Philly too and I recognize the paper flower from the flower show. I appreciate the interpretation of light, texture and surface that you have used as well as the high contrast.

My kinda stuff!

mikepenn

lifeLike wrote:

I'm new here too and it's only my second post but have to say I love your images. I'm in Philly too and I recognize the paper flower from the flower show. I appreciate the interpretation of light, texture and surface that you have used as well as the high contrast.

My kinda stuff!

Thank you, I usually crop square but I've been working on a new series.

www.michaelpennphotography.com

phillybikeboy

mikepenn wrote:

Hello all, this is my first post here.

Getting tired of Philadelphia Speaks? Welcome!

mikepenn

phillybikeboy wrote:

Getting tired of Philadelphia Speaks? Welcome!

I'm everywhere.

Richard

Welcome to Dgrin, Mike . Very nice set, especially #1 and #3. Keep posting.

bdcolen

mikepenn wrote:

Hello all, this is my first post here.
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The first and third work very nicely, though I'd like to see them without the heavy post processing. The others? Not so much. My sense of the last one is that without the post processing it would just be cars on a bridge, and with it - it's heavily post-processed cars on a bridge. The poster? Someone else's art. Number 2? No idea what it is.

But 1 and 3 are very nice!

mikepenn

Richard

That last shot is wonderful. It reminds me of a famous one I've seen, but I can't remember who did it. BD will probably know.

bdcolen

Richard wrote:

That last shot is wonderful. It reminds me of a famous one I've seen, but I can't remember who did it. BD will probably know.

You confuse me with someone who isn't suffering from oldtimers. Although...IF the subject was coming toward us, and there were allot of tall buildings around, and the subject was a bit further away, I'd say that it was a bit reminiscent of the famous Dennis Stock photo of James Dean in Times Square.

Very nice shot...

Richard

bdcolen wrote:

You confuse me with someone who isn't suffering from oldtimers.

We're the same age, so confusion is my normal state.

mikepenn

Thank you everyone

mikepenn

....also this body of work was born from my fondness of Diado Moriyama, Yuichi Hibi and Trent Parke's early work.

It can be followed here.

http://mikepennphotography.blogspot.com/

mikepenn

15" x 22.5" image on Crane Museo Silver Rag Paper

20" x 30" mat