Here are some photos I’ve taken and done some amending to – all from the rail trail at Lorimer Park/Pennypack Trail in Huntingdon Valley/Abington, PA.
Usually these photos had something wrong with them – out of focus, or that kind of thing. But, in each case I felt a pull to work with the image because there was a balance or a rhythm or something that seemed right – just needed adjustment. So that’s what these are all about.
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- Spring.
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- Fisherman at the Pennypack creek.
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- The parking lot at Lorimer Park, glamorized a bit.
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- Combination of elements – taken from old train towers and other railroad structures along the Pennypack rail trail, and you may recognize the fences from the parking lot picture…
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- Railroad structure…
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- Part of a railroad structure…
Claudia McGill and Her Art World 
Don’t you find overall form is sometimes easier to see in an image that is slightly out of focus? I’ve known a couple of artists that always squinted at their work to get an impressionistic, broad feel of the whole as they painted.
Yes, I totally agree. I am very nearsighted, and when I want to get the sense of a piece without getting caught up in details, I take off my glasses. Totally different look to the work and things jump out at me that get lost with my “normal” sight.
I love blurred images in photography and I like to emphasize it rather than saying – oh no!