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home sweet home

Tornado aftermath, Maryland Heights, Missouri.  Leica M6, Fuji Provia 100, 1/30 @ 2.8
A frame of slide film, held up to the light, has an effect like none other. In your hand you hold a tangible piece of reproduced reality. Like little worlds I sleeve them and store them, stash them and bind them into a [...]

Posted 21 May 2011 † erik § uncommons ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

tweeting patterns

seeking solace, Kirkwood, Missouri.
I’m always on the lookout for images that take me away, at least for a minute, to another place. I see a thicket of birds amongst the prairie. It gives me comfort, peace, solace.  Think Sam Abell’s Seeing Gardens.

Posted 02 May 2011 † erik § everyday art § uncommons ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

waiting on a bride never seen

Lambert International Airport, St. Louis, Missouri.
Glen Jordan, the last person waiting for a flight in the Southwest terminal late Wednesday evening, awaits his bride from Chicago. He donned his best clothes with a trio of roses for a person he hasn’t yet met in person. The flight is delayed. He waits.

Posted 28 April 2011 † erik § uncommons ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

following the hard rain

After the hard rain outside a cafe, in the Italian part of St. Louis called the “The Hill.”

Posted 20 April 2011 † erik § everyday art ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

making a lost cemetery holy again

Washington Park Cemetery cleanup, St. Louis, Missouri.
I had always seen this cemetery from the highway, located in the takeoff path from Lambert airport. It was dilapidated, overgrown, infested with mounds of trash, tires, parts of appliances, and broken headstones. At one point there was a police pursuit of a suspect in the cemetery. A tree [...]

Posted 18 April 2011 † erik § recent posts § uncommons ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

shirtless at the pole

World’s Fair Park, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Posted 11 April 2011 † erik § uncommons ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

asleep at the little house

World’s Fair Park, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Posted 10 April 2011 † erik § uncommons ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

you shall love neighbor

St. Gabriel Catholic Church fish fry,  south St. Louis, by Erik M. Lunsford
Good words to live by, and by the way, I’m falling madly in love with slide film color. It convinced me to re-review my Miguel Rio Branco collection. Shot this on the M6 with Provia 100F.

Posted 27 March 2011 † erik § everyday art § uncommons ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

the editor’s desk

Photo Editor’s Desk, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, by Erik M. Lunsford
This is the desk of my photo editor, Larry Coyne. I always wondered as an intern what the desks and offices looked like of those who I sent my portfolio, in hopes that it would land front and center on the desk for willing eyes. If [...]

Posted 23 March 2011 † erik § everyday art § uncommons ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

notes from the morning

fatal car crash, north St. Louis City, photo by Erik M. Lunsford

Posted 11 February 2011 † erik § uncommons ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: