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  • Red rose photographed with a macro lens with a shallow depth of field with green leaf on a yellow background
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  • Okay, let's get this out of the way from the start - graffiti can be beautiful or it can be ugly but it is almost always a crime.  People create graffiti for any of a number of reasons.  My Urban Abstract series should not be considered as a support of property damage nor should it be considered my approval of any particular message.  I create these images because it provides a framework for me to appreciate color, form, and texture. If the graffiti did not exist, I might instead do my own painting on various surfaces but somehow photographing the existing graffiti seems more authentic to me.
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  • The Urban Abstract series isn't strictly about graffiti but it is most always about decay.  I liked the shape of this peeling plaster overlay and the contrast provided by the dark shadows.
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  • The muted paint color here leads me to believe that this is an old painting (it is protected from the sun but would get reflected light).  I like that the design is sort of an abstract stick face design.
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  • The colors here show multiple re-paintings of a fence to cover layers of graffiti.  When I saw the layers, I immediately thought of the work of Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko.
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  • Infrared (IR) image - Eastern Washington high desert landscape.  The wispy clouds against the black sky is set against the a scrub covered hill top.  I like that the landscape here is pushed to the point of abstraction.
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  • It interests me how these graffiti artists are able to keep such good separation between colors.  In this image, I like the shapes but also have to wonder how long the painter had to wait between coats for the finished design.
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  • I hope you enjoyed this gallery.  <br />
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It is worth pointing out that I'm hardly the first person to include graffiti in their photography portfolio.  Walker Evans, famous for his work with the Farm Security Administration back in the time of the Great Depression, later did some graffiti photographs in New York.  His work is the one that inspired my own series.  The images in this series were mostly created with a 180 mm macro lens.  This allows me to get very close and include only small parts of an over all design.  When printed out at full resolution, these fragments of the whole would be many times larger than they are as part of the original graffiti design.  This is done so that the images are more a reflection of my own artistic sensibilities than they are of copying someone else's design.
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  • This image is about a repetition of shape.  I'd have preferred that the black circle had been done with the purple instead but then again, the graffiti wasn't created with my design in mind.
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  • I included this one because the pink introduced a new color into the portfolio but I do not think it will make the final cut.
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  • A slightly different composition from the previous photograph.  Only one of the two will make it to the final portfolio because they are a bit too similar since they show the same part of the overall work.
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  • I like the yellow that was introduced here next to the black and purple.  The three repeating lines in the left also work well for the image.
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  • I like the shapes and colors in this and the next image but I think they would be stronger with a more saturated blue.
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  • I really like the purple and green color combination.  The square format works well for the graphic design.
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  • I really like the flow of this image.  It is also a nice shade of purple.
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  • I'm also on the fence about the dot in the bottom right corner.
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  • I love the green and purple colors here.  If this image makes the final cut, I'll likely crop it a touch so the purple ends in a point at the bottom left corner.
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