Growing in the Between Places

Image Description: A close-up photograph of black tree bark. It has a heavily cranulated texture. Bright yellow lichen covers the tree bark in streaks and spots across the entire image.

The Hateful Never Smile

Full Poem: https://medium.com/@wdibble/the-hateful-never-smile-46b6640a69cb Image Description: A black and white image of a vaulted wood roof. There are intricate butresses made of lighter and darker wood that form criss-crossed latices. There are five of them total, with the one at the top of the image being almost directly overhead.

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.

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.

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.

Lines and Corners

This was the upper corner of an apartment building downtown. With a few tweaks and a bit of a perspective change, it quickly became something that looked closer to an abstract 3D render than a building.

Squares

This was one of the few pictures I liked from an otherwise disappointing day of shooting. It was also the only photoshoot I've ever really been disappointed in all of the results. The client was offered a free reshoot sometime, but I was really unhappy. Still, I caught this from an oblique angle underneath some trees. There are square stepping stones not far from one another, and in the right light and angles appear more like monoliths over a lake.

Solus

This simple composition is one of my favorite photographs that I've taken. I shot this with a Canon EOS 20D that has been converted to infrared photography. With an absolute minimum in detail and contrast around the majority of the picture, the single post with its details and contrast stand out at sharp attention, along with the small reflection it generates. I absolutely adore this composition. Awards and Recognition: Apollo Medical Center Gallery - April 2015 - October 2015

Argyle

A closed and shuttered window. From the rust around the edges, this window's shutters have been closed for quite some time. I shot the composition with the intention of taking a wide crop and putting it into monochrome. The pattern wasn't very interesting in color anyway. Once I took it to black and white, I performed some dodging and burning to make sure I got the effect I wanted. In the end, I wound up with a wide pattern that widely resembles a fabric pattern. I love the high contrast, diamonds on stripes. Despite the foreground and background being in focus, I also like the color differential, and how it really separates the two of them.

Path

I'd never seen nor heard of Americasmart before this month. I had the chance to visit Atlanta, Georgia, for the first time ever, and the sides of one of the buildings caught my eye as we passed by. I really liked the stair cases going up each corner, but the real interesting sight was what they looked like from below. To me, it looked like a path to a particularly strange path to a unique structure. I really liked the way the stair path took on the look of shadows instead of gaps.

Atlanta³

I couldn't quite get the angle on this building I wanted. I had several lenses on me to choose from, but none could get the width to photograph this building from up close. Later, on a Ferris Wheel, I noticed I had the angle I wanted. Equipped only with a Canon Rebel T5i and a Canon 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 lens, I had to shoot through a hazy plastic window with dimming light. Even so, I managed to catch this building at an angle that perfectly mirrored my vision for it.