Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Camera Works Gallery Postcard
Camera Works Gallery Postcard
Originally uploaded by lexly87 aka Duc N. Ly
And Old postcard from my show.
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
A friends recommendation for Costa Rica.
I certainly can recommend it to you. The first and most important thing is to have the right guide with you .
We stayed in :
Eerste nacht in de hoofdstad : www.hotelgranodeoro.com/
2 nachten in Arenal : www.montanadefuego.com/
2 nachten in Sarapiqui : www.hotellaquintasarapiqui.com/
2 nachten in Tortuguero : www.manatuscostarica.com/
3 nachten in Osa : www.aguiladeosainn.com/index.html
1 nacht in Dominical : www.cristal-ballena.com/cb_en_attractions.htm
2 nachten in San Gerardo de dota : www.savegre.co.cr/indexeng.html
Especially the accomodation i Tortuguero and Osa were reat ( as were the nature)
Please take a good telelens with you ( I used 200-400 from Nikon together with my D3X ) . Travelling there is relatively easy and with a monopod, you get along quite well.
We stayed in :
Eerste nacht in de hoofdstad : www.hotelgranodeoro.com/
2 nachten in Arenal : www.montanadefuego.com/
2 nachten in Sarapiqui : www.hotellaquintasarapiqui.com/
2 nachten in Tortuguero : www.manatuscostarica.com/
3 nachten in Osa : www.aguiladeosainn.com/index.html
1 nacht in Dominical : www.cristal-ballena.com/cb_en_attractions.htm
2 nachten in San Gerardo de dota : www.savegre.co.cr/indexeng.html
Especially the accomodation i Tortuguero and Osa were reat ( as were the nature)
Please take a good telelens with you ( I used 200-400 from Nikon together with my D3X ) . Travelling there is relatively easy and with a monopod, you get along quite well.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
yellow white and brown
yellow white and brown
Originally uploaded by lexly87 aka Duc N. Ly
Some new work I did with paper and photography
Monday, July 11, 2011
Tumblr
happy spring break!
My time wasting on Tumblr has finally decreased a bit. I collect abstract art work on line but I need to make more collages, paint, and draw. No excuses. I feel much better when I create something, mostly for myself. But I'll put something up on my tumblr diary just to see if people will like this or that. There are different audience for different places, what you might call a vibe. Flickr people like different things then the tumblr crowd. I put mostly abstract photography stuff and that goes over well.
07.11.11
Yesterday was so sunny. So I just drove up to NE Killingsworth to check out a messenger bag at Half Pint Vintage store which has cool boots, bags, and belt. Mostly leather. I bought the bag for $38 bugs. My brother thought we all should check out Yakuza near by for pre diner treats. The have really trendy good food and thick hamburger served rare only. The back yard seating was really nice. We walked around afterwards and found the vintage store where I had my eye on the bag. It has working clips not like the fake buttons that attaches to flaps you see now a days. The leather is trimmed and a bit scratched and stained but clean. It shows a nice patina. Because Yakuza was closed on Sunday, I headed to Cup and Saucer Cafe. I had a salad because it was too hot for anything else and because I frankly don't get enough of salads these days. I remember when we were in Hungary, the person from Pennsylvania made a list of all the salads that he was going to eat when he get back to his state. Hungary has lots of good food but at our area, there were lots of game meat and pizza but not much of American salad. There was vitamin salad which to him was not the same. He craved summer salad as I do. Not that Eastern Europeans don't have salads. A memorable salad I had was in Poland, Poznan. It was in a fancy restaurant. The tomato was peeled. That was a memorable detail. I've not had a salad like that ever since.
Your wondering why I'm bragging about travels to Poland and Hungary? Well to tell you the truth. I don't travel much these days. The Hungary trip was in 2001, the summer before the 9/11. I carried so much stuff on that trip it was unbelievable. I had a metal trip pod, an old Mamiya C330 medium format camera. For those of you who don't know what a medium format camera is, it's a film camera which has negatives three or four times bigger the 35mm film. In mega pixels, it's probably some 20 to 40 mega pixels, two or four times the average digital point and shoot. I don't recommend carrying anything like that. I was able to take a dozen good shots. Believe it or not, some people prefer to carry film gears because, with digital gear, you have to carry the charger, laptop, and a few other equipment to make it work. Although, I did travel to NY last September with a laptop, a serious compact camera Panasonic Lumix GF1. It was bought for the trip. I dropped it once at the Apple store in Tribecca and just the other night, dropped it on the wooden stair at my sister's house. It went tumbling down a few steps but works just fine. There is a dent at the corner of the camera which mark it as mine. Althought, the viewing screen is dark sometimes, I think it is due to the drop. It goes dark only when I turn it vertically for the vertical shots.
If I'm ambitious and have time, I like to put together something about photography and travel.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
500 Photographers: Photographer #199: Michael Ackerman
500 Photographers: Photographer #199: Michael Ackerman: "American photographer Michael Ackerman, 1967, Israel, works and lives in Berlin. Recently his third book Half Life came out. It contains ima..."
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Friday, May 06, 2011
coolpix 990
Friday, March 18, 2011
Terry Richarson Digital
I heard that Terry switch to digital camera. So I look on line and found this link
As instructed by article, I installed the Exlif for Mozilla Firefox browser because I wanted to see what digital camera Terry is using. One of the camera is the Panasonic GF1. I have that camera! The picture below was taken by Terry with the GF1.EXIF IFD0
* Camera Make = Panasonic
* Camera Model = DMC-GF1
* X-Resolution = 72/1 ===> 72
* Y-Resolution = 72/1 ===> 72
* X/Y-Resolution Unit = inch (2)
* Software / Firmware Version = Ver.1.1
* Last Modified Date/Time = 2011:03:17 21:48:19
For the photograph Tilda at my studio:
EXIF Sub IFD
Terry did not use any flash. The lens is 14mm. It is the pancake version.
EXIF Sub IFD
* Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 1/200 second ===> 0.005 second
* Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 35/10 ===> ƒ/3.5
* Exposure Program = aperture priority (3)
* ISO Speed Ratings = 400
* EXIF Version = 0221
* Original Date/Time = 2011:02:16 13:19:26
* Digitization Date/Time = 2011:02:16 13:19:26
* Shutter Speed Value (APEX) = 7643856/1000000
Shutter Speed (Exposure Time) = 1/200 second
* Aperture Value (APEX) = 361471/100000
Aperture = ƒ/3.5
* Exposure Bias (EV) = 0/100 ===> 0
* Max Aperture Value (APEX) = 925/256 ===> 3.61
Max Aperture = ƒ/3.5
* Metering Mode = pattern / multi-segment (5)
* Flash = Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
* Focal Length = 140/10 mm ===> 14 mm
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
lexly shared an Instagram photo with you
Playing around with the Tilt shift on the Instangram iPhone camera.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Em II
Originally uploaded by lexly87 aka Duc N. Ly
One of my favorite photographer Rodney Smith was the juror for a Portraits Exhibition. This portrait work was selected for exhibition Mar 2011
Warsaw Uprising Museum
Warsaw Uprising Museum
Originally uploaded by lexly87 aka Duc N. Ly
This Is the Warsaw Uprising Museum.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
c4fap Portraits
http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitors/2011Portraits/
Juror: Rodney Smith!
One of my portraits was selected for a show.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Nom de guerre
http://hypebeast.com/2009/02/nom-de-guerre-2009-springsummer-collection-2/
photographer
http://hypebeast.com/2010/01/nom-de-guerre-2010-springsummer-combat-continues-collection/
Nom de guerre
NY
2008 to present.
the name sort of means 'Stone Wall' Jackson.
military research and engineered.
film influence concept and character inspired designs.
greys and blacks.
strong photographic projects.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Friday, October 08, 2010
Friday, October 01, 2010
Centrifical Force
When I was a kid, my aunt took me to a show similar to this one, where motor cycles go round and round in a bowl.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
The Mexican Suitcase
I spent nearly the whole afternoon looking at the rare first exhibit of : http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions. The Mexican Suitcase looks like a homemade box of card board with cordoned space that held rolled up 35mm film negatives. This was also in conjunction to the Cuban Revolution with many rare Che contact sheets. There is a Netflix film about how the famous iconic Che portrait arrived. Both shows displayed contact sheets along with the famous prints. The Mexican Suitcase has more contact sheets. I had not seen any contact sheets at all in a museum. It was good to see that the pros also had over exposed or rough shots before they nailed it.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Nails
2009. I was testing out the Nikon 50 mm 1.4 f lens. I wanted to get some idea for the depth of field. This was shot on film.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Friends of the Gorge
Friends of the Gorge featured my photograph of Indian Point: http://gorgefriends.org/display.php?modin=51&uid=4876
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Sauvie Island
DSCF2003
Originally uploaded by lexly87 aka Duc N. Ly
Spent a day on this beautiful island. I put this image on on ImageKind thinking that I would one day make a print of it for my wall.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Friday, July 02, 2010
W.S. Merwin
"I think memory is essential to what we are. We wouldn't be able to talk to each other without memory, and what we think of as the present really is the past. It is made out of the past. The present is an absolutely transparent moment that only great saints ever see occasionally. But the present that we think of as the present is made up of the past, and the past is always one moment. It's what happened three minutes ago, and one minute, it's what happened 30 years ago. And they flow into each other in waves that we can't predict and that we keep discovering in dreams, which keep bringing up feelings and moments, some of which we never actually saw."
-W.S Merwin
Monday, May 31, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Ace Hotel
The Scout made a second video on craftsmanship. This one features Roman & Williams. I really like the way they have documents some of their renovation projects on the blog. There are pictures of bricks being laid, photographs of the fixtures along side with shop drawings. In this computer age, it's refreshing to see hand drawings instead of slick CG. I also think that they have chosen to use Blogger to show case their work instead of a flash or highly coded website. It's really using simple tools that are familiar to new exciting ways. A blogging tool has been transformed into a cascading sections to show news, goods, and projects.
Roman & Williams from The Scout on Vimeo.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Art 100
Tonight I went to see two different works. Jame Lavadour and Julia Mangold. The galleries, PDX Contemporary and Elizabeth Leach, were next to each other. Their works are different and also similar. Lavadour's abstract landscapes seems like a shamanic vision after a strong peyote trip. The vast spaces created with a subtle mix of bright color that are layered with pure neon unmixed colors and lines. The toxic color seems to have flatten the space and yet adds depth because of the layering. Some of the pieces are explosions from a volcano against the misty haze of distant land. There are sharp depth of field and jagged mountains. The shapes seems to come purer in it's abstraction where as a realistic or photographic depiction of the landscape would have organically rounded off the geometries. Despite the strong tone, the whole body of work seems to stay with a certain strong palette. A comparison could be made to Cezanne's cubist rendering of the landscape, reducing the mountain mass into flatten shapes. Cezanne's landscapes are more cubic then Lavadors. If Julia Mangold painted a landscape, it would be more a keen to Cezanne then Lavadour.
Then there is the austere work of Julia Mangold. She stays with in a certain tone yet still manage to produce an illusion of space. Her palette is black against the gallery's white wall. Her work contains a certain purity and religious tones. Her vision is also shamanic, though more hermetic and monastic, less gregarious then Lavadour's, though no less powerful. The work hungs on the wall as sculpture and painting at the same time. The more successful compositions are the pure square, almost cubes. Lavadour's forms and lines are organic becoming geometric and Julia Mangolds forms are geometric becoming organic. The lights cast ghostly shadows, light grays angels beneath the cube pieces hanging on the wall. Lavadors are panels that protrude slightly off the wall where as Julia's form extend from the wall and into the space of the viewer and room. In a way, Lavadour's work is minimal and flat. There are few colors within the painting and few shapes in the volcabulary. These issues, these tools are more distinct in Julia's work. Julia also has some pieces that are on a flat plane. They too are dimensionally projecting. The layers of transparency and space is perhaps most similar to Lavadour's paintings. They seem to be layers up on layers of vellum sheets, the top sheet has a slight curve at the top that shows how the pieces were constructed. They are also restricted to pure platonic shapes, like her sculptures. Their layering seems more apparent and constructed where as Lavadour's veils are hazing the mountain peaks beyond in mists. Lavadour rejoice in the un-ruliness, Julia reveal in the restraint.
The volumes bisected by the white lines that are between the rectangular shapes. Their forms create another shape casted by the gallery light. There are groupings of three square. Each is carefully constructed to bring out the proportions. For example, the smaller square groups has more depth and become more cube like in their volumes while the larger square groupings have flatter depth. This choice seems to be congruent with the way we perceive space and how we measure our body against the work. There were more obvious sculptural pieces as objects on the floor. The volumes, boxes lay flush against each other at times and then protrude no more then half an inch beyond each other. There seems to be a game, a consistency. For example, the horizontal lines between the space of the wall pieces are less then half an inch. There are limitations in dimension to create implied lines. The vertical wall pieces seem less successful and radically different from the implied square. It's not the unruliness's of the dimension that makes them alien to the square composition, it's their departure from the square that creates such a jarring affect. Though they are of the same color of black that unites the pieces, it is the geometry that makes them different and seem to belong to another artist. In the back of the gallery are the prints of Donald Judd. Only two are in black and white. Though they are lines, the black and white twins demonstrate the minimalist technique of varying only a few lines to make a slight but totally different space. It is no accident that the two are shown together. Julia works in the same line as Judd and even her last name Mangold recalls another minimalist, Robert Mangold. I shook her hands but did not ask her if she is related to Robert. Her work certainly carries the line and field color of Robert in shape but not color. It reminds me of Frank Stella's black and white prints and his radical departure in sculpture of metallic french curves protruding from the wall. I would have expected Frank Stella's work to be more like Julia's work if he carried on the same black and white palette and remain pure in his geometry of linear lines and rectangular shapes. Julia's work is a ghost of Donald Judd and Frank Stella. She carries on their tradition and I almost prefer her work to her fore bears, the masters of minimalist. Judd's work is sometimes too pure, dare I say boring, where as Julia's work allows a range of visual games to engage the viewers. Her work recalls another minimalist, Ann Truitt. Not long ago, I saw Truitt's column piece at the Portland Art Museum's Disquieted show. It is a column, an extended cube. In height, it is about the size of a woman. It is perfectly executed, like Julia's work. However, Julia's vertical pieces pales in comparison. If only Truitt's column were black, they would belong in the show as a mother watching over her children, Julia's child, playing quietly, sneakily protruding from each other on the wall and on the floor.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Wedding Event BookShow
I made a quick rough draft of Event/Wedding images to show to clients who are interested in having a book made of their events. It's a slim volume compare to the Kolo Album that I put together of the images. I think both serve a different purpose. I think that the book would be a great item for corporate events and a Kolo Album would be better for personal events such as an engagement.
Give Me Shelter
I'm trying out Photoshelter. Here's the referral code. What I like so far is the ability to have a blog linked to my photography website. I would also like to sell stock images. I would also like to send my clients a secure password link for them to check out the shoot of the event. This is great and seems to be doing it all for photographers out there. I've made a gallery of images and it allows me to promote it on a blog. Check out my gallery of New Images.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Riviera Clothing
I like how riviera clothing put together their website which is in form of a book. The clean photographs, bright lights capture California. The font and lay out of both the website and book has a personal feel to it and has a simple concept. I really see it as a hard cover book. I wish that my blurb book could be previewed like this book. I could easily imagined this website virtual book as a real book and would want to received their catalogue.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Gabriel Orozco
I really like how Gabriel uses photography in his notebooks. He uses a common ballpoint and writes in ideas, thoughts, and observations in an organized block, like comic book or architectural handwriting. He uses a 35mm camera and a point and shoot then has the rolls printed in 4x6. Here's an artist using photography as a medium sometimes and using it as a sketch book. Check out his house he designed (photographed by Iwan Baan)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Pleasures of the Text
DSCF1742 lolo
Originally uploaded by lexly87 aka Duc N. Ly
The Pleasures of the Text began as my curiosity of there the reader's mind goes when he/she is lost in a book. It is the same look that video games have? That concentrated gaze. When some one is lost in a book, it's hard to get their attention. It makes photographing them a bit easier as they are not aware of anything other then the book that engages them. In this high tech culture, the printed page is vanishing. I foundly remember the bookstores I frequent at lunch time which no longer exist today and marvel at the places that still survive. I regret not documenting these places before they disappeared. Some places still have high ceilings and floods of light into the skylight. Other places are dark and dingy and seem to represent that part of our brain.
Cherry Blossom at Papaya Thai
DSCF1759 colorcross
Originally uploaded by lexly87 aka Duc N. Ly
I had the big camera out which gathered a crowd. Then took this one with a digital camera. It happened to be in front of Papaya Thai restaurant. The family talked to me for a bit during diner. They had a huge painting of Can Tho. I might go back to make a picture of it.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
flash fiction
Date: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Subject: [writers-HdSwkTFR] New Meetup: Close Reading - Poetic Devices - Selections of Flash Fiction
Subject: [writers-HdSwkTFR] New Meetup: Close Reading - Poetic Devices - Selections of Flash Fiction
Announcing a new Meetup for Reading Like a Writer: Book Club/Writing Workshop!
What: Close Reading - Poetic Devices - Selections of Flash Fiction
When: Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:00 PM
Where:
McMenamins Tavern & Pool
1716 NW 23rd Ave
Portland, OR 97210
(503) 227-0929
This month, we will be reading several pieces, each very short, and each very free. In this way, we will not bogged down with discussion of 'plot' or logistical confusions, so we can focus upon language, visuals, and emotions. We will compare and contrast each piece, and how effectively each uses poetic techniques to enhance its narrative.
I've attempted to be diverse in my selections:
Jack Anderson's "Calamitous Dreams", part of the "Traffic: new and selected prose poems" collection. (If the link doesn't work, you should be able to find it yourself through Google Books.)
T.S. Eliot's "Hysteria"
Ernest Hemingway's "A Very Short Story"
Raymond Carver's "Little Things"
I encourage everyone to print these out, read and re-read, and annotate.
Learn more here:
http://www.meetup.com/Reading-Like-a-Writer/calendar/12033473/
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