Alphabet Soup

For full poem: https://medium.com/@wdibble/alphabet-soup-7f36e99d698e Image Description: A line of land is visible at the very bottom of the image. The foreground in the left half of photo is dominated by a stylized wind turbine. It appears as a large slender tower with a full circle of turbine blades around the top, forming a nearly complete circle. Fourteen identical wind turbines dot the horizon in the distance behind it, interspersed along the land at the bottom of the photograph. Just to the right of the main turbine are a pair of small birds. The entire foreground is silhouetted. The sky is filled with purple storm clouds that fade to reddish-orange at the horizon. The clouds are blurred with motion across the sky.

Maybe Stairs Aren't So Bad

When I Touch You, I'm Memorizing Your Texture

Rays of Darkness

Remember When We Smiled?

High Noon

I found the patterns on the side of the Wells Fargo Center in Denver, Colorado, to be absolutely fascinating. The appearances of the building change rapidly throughout the day.

Ether

H.P. Lovecraft's works postulated that creatures beyond our imagination lived in the vast ether beyond our world. They possessed powers and appearances beyond our comprehension that could drive a person mad. He may not have been wrong.

Red Planet

Crushed red chalk pastel on white IKEA shelfing.

Crimson

Captured for a Chrysta Rae scavenger hunt! Materials used: Chalk pastel, crushed, and a white IKEA Billy shelf.

Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn

I can't help but think of one of my favorite bands when I see this picture. Mono, a post-rock band from Japan, has a song "Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn". I can't really call it lyrically inspired, though, as the song has no lyrics. Either way, I love this silhouette against the sunrise.

And We Flew Like Silhouettes for Days Past

I frequently relax by listening to post-rock bands. This has a few effects if I do so while working on photography. Photographs worked on tend to take on a more abstract look, and the titles tend to be... Longer. Many bands in post rock have sentence-length song titles. Anyway, I relaly felt like one was fitting for this photograph. Despite being clearly a nature photograph of birds, it has a very distinct appeal.

Autumnal Grid

Downtown Raleigh put in these big light pillars a few years back that are covered in metal leaves with lighting systems underneath the grid. This was in the fall, and the pillars were cycling reds, oranges, and yellows. It made me think of the autumn, and I caught this during one of the light changes.

Caldera

Taken up-close and personal while my friend Fan was negotiating about her new car. I was inspecting a tree, and took a look at this stump from below. Suddenly, it no longer looked like a broken branch, but the caldera of a dead volcano, or maybe an ancient impact site of some meteorite. All I had on me at the time was my Asus PadFone X so I made do with the camera on it, which wasn't bad at all in retrospect. I really liked how this came out after some careful black and white remastering. Awards and Recognition: roguemark Gallery October 2014

Bolt Hole

I am a huge fan of macro combined with texture. This was found on a cloudy day up near Aurora, North Carolina. It was across the street from the main industrial entrance for PCS Phosphate. There was a series of old metal pipes that fell out of use at some point in the past, and had been completely overcome by rust. I found the bolt hole absolutely fascinating. Awards and Recognition: roguemark Gallery October 2014

Zoom!

I don't remember where I first saw this effect used, but I knew that I wanted to emulate it. I really liked the way it worked out with this tree. At the time, I knew very little about exposure lengths and shutter speeds, so did the best I could with my limited knowledge. This is a shot I've lost the original RAW file to, so am stuck with a lower-resolution backup copy.

Tree Bark

This is one of my earliest experiments with my Canon Rebel XTi many years ago. I have always liked shots that take angles and compositions to a point where the object in focus begins to break down and look like something else. This shot, unfortunately, got lost as a CR2/DNG file and I had to substitute it from a lower resolution online backup. I'm not sure I'll ever get to take this particular photo again, as its been almost half a decade. Awards and Recognition: roguemark Gallery October 2014

The Walking Professor

Legend has it that touching his textbook before an exam will allow you to pass. This statue was commissioned to honor one of NC State's professors. The book in his hands is actually legible. I need to retake this photograph, as the resolution is terrible and I've learned a lot since taking it about light painting and photography in general. My fiancee and I took this together while fooling around with flashlights and long exposures.

Negative Space

Sometimes, I look at something, and think, "Gee, that's really nice. But what if it were turned sideways?" That's how this picture came to be. There's this statue of a Highway Patrolman out in Clayton, NC, at the police department. On the outside of the building, it's a sculpted 3D statue about 10' high. On the inside, they left it as carved-out negative space. I saw this, and lay on my back to see the above version of the statue. I love how it became a deep canyon with a simple angle change. Awards and Recognition: roguemark Gallery October 2014 Wake Med Reflections Gallery - January 2015 through April 2015

Ætherial

I had just discovered the concept of "freelensing", and showed up about an hour for a shoot with a local band (Seven Letter), as is my custom. I always show up super early so I can futz around and experiment with the environment I'll be working with. I captured this by turning my 18-55mm lens backwards, tilting it, and taking a picture of a tiny flower. Something about it is very wedding-like, I've been told over and over. It certainly is ambient, at least.

Land of the Free

This came from walking around downtown. I found this on an old, rusting metal door. The sticker was on the door, and wasn't "photoshopped" into the image. I really liked the way it all fit together, so snapped a shot.

Crumble

I captured this while waiting for a shoot to start in one of Raleigh's abandoned rail yards. Surprisingly, this place has no signs forbidding traffic or usage. I really liked the look of the ground here, and a nearby ledge provided me enough elevation to capture this shot. With a bit of processing and some split toning, I came out with this!