Italy – blueheART STUDIOS https://blueheartstudios.com Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:32:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blueheartstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-blueheartlfaviconjpg-32x32.jpg Italy – blueheART STUDIOS https://blueheartstudios.com 32 32 Woman In The Alley, Orvieto https://blueheartstudios.com/product/woman-in-the-alley-orvieto/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:22:03 +0000 https://blueheartstudios.com/?post_type=product&p=872 Digital Pigment Print

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When I look outside myself I see what is inside.

Orvieto encourages a glance to live as something seen. The confluence of geometry and light as it collides within the discipline of the frame. The precise moment the time–space continuum is interrupted creates an indelible image that speaks to all languages, sings to all choirs and whispers to all who do not want to hear and those willing to listen.

The most profound moments, captured or not, bring us time and again to the windows of our worlds. What is outside becomes known to the inside. The dark edges of our souls caress the light we see. And the miracle of seeing is not the act of letting light in. It is the decision to jailbreak the darkness. To rid ourselves of the cultural carbohydrates that weigh us down with the hope of keeping us in our lanes. God can steer a parked car. Chances are He won’t.

There are these most wonderful alleys in Orvieto that always lead you to who you should be.

Sun from behind the clouds became the stage light for an old woman sitting at a tilted table a few feet across from water-colored paintings she had clothes-lined to the ancient wall facing her.

I was right there. Right in front of her. She, studying her hands that put things on paper that might or might not have ever existed, and me looking into a mirror.

I offer you, “Woman In The Alley, Orvieto.”

]]> A Bunch of Priests Get Photographed https://blueheartstudios.com/product/a-bunch-of-priests-get-photographed/ Sun, 19 May 2024 18:12:40 +0000 https://blueheartstudios.com/?post_type=product&p=481 Archival Pigment Print 5x5, mounted and matted in 8x10 on 100% museum rag TechTalk iPhone SE Hipstamatic, John S lens + Uchitel 20 film]]> Priests gather outside their chapel in Orvieto, Italy for a group photo.

This image was made the night before the start of the Corpus Domini Festival in Orvieto. Held each year during the first couple of days in June, Italians come from all regions of Italy dressed in their medieval costumes for the three-day festival.

]]> A Helmet Without A Head, Orvieto, Italy https://blueheartstudios.com/product/a-helmet-without-a-head-orvieto-italy/ Sun, 19 May 2024 18:08:50 +0000 https://blueheartstudios.com/?post_type=product&p=479 Archival Pigment Print 5x5, mounted and matted in 8x10 on 100% museum rag TechTalk iPhone SE Hipstamatic, John S + Uchitel 20.]]> This image is the logo photograph for the PAL Photography Workshop I offer through my blueheART STUDIOS FOUNDATION.

I have been working with the Hipstamatic App for several years and I have found the lens and film combination I like the best, and that is, John S lens + Uchitel20 film.

]]> Church Chairs https://blueheartstudios.com/product/church-chairs/ Sun, 19 May 2024 18:04:49 +0000 https://blueheartstudios.com/?post_type=product&p=475 Archival Pigment Print 5x5, mounted and matted in 8x10 on 100% museum rag TechTalk iPhone SE Hipstamatic, John S lens + Uchitel 20 film]]> Cortona has a beautiful little church with wonderful light that slips through its windows. I have never seen chairs like these. I have never seen like I see now when I am in Italy. When I was a young photographer and moved away from San Francisco for a life of daily assignments, every time I returned to The City By The Bay, I just felt more creative. Whatever that feels like.

Is feeling creative happiness, or joy? Or if I may be so bold, does feeling creative feel like love? Both love and creation are verbs, if you’re living right.

]]> Cinque Terre, Manarola, Sunset https://blueheartstudios.com/product/cinque-terre-manarola-sunset-2/ Sun, 19 May 2024 17:58:47 +0000 https://blueheartstudios.com/?post_type=product&p=474 Archival Pigment Print 6x9, matted and mounted in 11x14 100% museum rag  $100]]> The Cinque Terre region, near La Spezia on the Mediterranean, is the most beautiful place on the planet. And steep. One can walk from village to village. Well, it was possible before the 2013 storm took out the footpath from Manarola to Corniglia. It’s only been eleven years and the path is still not rebuilt. The other villages are accessed by train or boat. I suggest boat if the sea isn’t too choppy.

If you go to the Cinque Terre, stay in Manarola. And if you stay in Manarola you must have dinner at Billy’s Trattoria. And if you have dinner at Billy’s, you must have the lobster pasta. It is required.

]]> Church In The Valley, Cortona https://blueheartstudios.com/product/church-in-the-valley-cortona/ Sun, 19 May 2024 13:35:52 +0000 https://blueheartstudios.com/?post_type=product&p=457 Archival Pigment Print 5x5, mounted and matted in 8x10 on 100% museum rag TechTalk iPhone SE Hipstamatic, John S lens + Uchitel 20 film]]> The gifts Hipstamatic offers are many, but I have only discovered a few.

What lured me to this fun visual expression is the how light is played throughout its zeros and ones. After and few thousand exposures in Hipstamatic mode, I began to see “Hipstamatic” light. My mind was seeing the Hipstamatic image before I made the exposure… a bit of previsualization.

Ansel Adams taught so many things about photography. Too many to list here. But the most important thing he taught me was to previsualize a photograph before the exposure (see my blueheART STUDIOS FILM PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP BOOK). Previsualization begins with the mastery of the machine (the camera) and focal length of the lens.

I am old. And fortunate. When I started out as a shooter, zoom lenses were not sharp so I did not use them. I used fixed focal length lenses, now referred to as “prime” lenses. Calling a lens, a “prime” lens is just silly. If you have a 50mm lens, and it is your prime lens, and you have a 105mm lens and it is your prime lens, then which one is your prime lens? If you use fixed focal length lenses, you will begin to see in focal length, and if you can see in focal length, you will know where to place your feet… The cheapest zoom lens you own are your feet. Walk forward, zoom in. Walk backward, zoom out. I digress…

]]> Path To Bramasole, Cortona https://blueheartstudios.com/product/path-to-bramasole-cortona/ Fri, 17 May 2024 21:17:33 +0000 https://blueheartstudios.com/?post_type=product&p=442 Archival Pigment Print 5x5, mounted and matted in 8x10 on 100% museum rag TechTalk iPhone SE Hipstamatic, John S lens + Uchitel 20 film]]> Who doesn’t love Frances Mayes? And if you love Frances Mayes, you love Under The Tuscan Sun. The book and the movie.

This is the path that leads to Bramasole, Frances Mayes’ home. It’s a long walk of a couple of miles. When we arrived there, my sister-in-law said, “Let’s go knock on her door.” So… we did not.

]]> Storm In The Valley, Cortona https://blueheartstudios.com/product/storm-in-the-valley-cortona/ Thu, 16 May 2024 21:22:52 +0000 https://blueheartstudios.com/?post_type=product&p=433 Archival Pigment Print 5x5, mounted and matted in 8x10 on 100% museum rag TechTalk iPhone SE Hipstamatic, John S lens + Uchitel 20 film]]> Archival Pigment Print 5x5, mounted and matted in 8x10 on 100% museum rag TechTalk iPhone SE Hipstamatic, John S lens + Uchitel 20 film]]>