A beautiful fall Sunday afternoon, a lovely sky and a polarizing filter. What else could a photographer want? Well,the Arch, Photoshop and a MacBook. That's good, too.
I could say this is your best yet but I've thought that before and there's more to come so why would I ever say never? It is wonderfully painterly and the small contrail inside the arch, I suppose it COULD be synchronicitous...
When I see your work with The Arch I'm reminded that God gives each of us gifts and we know they're our gifts because on a certain level they're effortless. I think this is your gift that you were fated to live and work near it and that one day people will look back on your work and be astonished.
GATEWAY is a record of my photographs of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, the city where I live. I am obsessed with our great monument. It is a paean to American Westward expansion. The Arch was completed in 1966 and stands 630 feet / 192 meters high. It is exactly as wide as it is tall.
To me, the Arch is the most beautiful monumental sculpture in the world. I look at it every day as I drive to work and from my office window. It has moods. It is different at every hour, in every season and in every kind of weather. I never tire of it. For the last few years I have photographed it over and over, trying to avoid postcard cliches. Each time I carry my camera to its feet I look for something new.
Most of these pictures have been published in my other blog, St. Louis Daily Photo, documenting local life since March 2007. Come have a look.
All images and text on this blog are copyright Robert A. Crowe. All rights reserved. No use without express permission.
Lawyer for a living until I had enough, photographer for passion and satisfaction, worker in downtown St. Louis for 47 years. What I see is what you get.
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une course entre les nuages et l'arche.
a race between clouds and the ark.
I could say this is your best yet but I've thought that before and there's more to come so why would I ever say never? It is wonderfully painterly and the small contrail inside the arch, I suppose it COULD be synchronicitous...
When I see your work with The Arch I'm reminded that God gives each of us gifts and we know they're our gifts because on a certain level they're effortless. I think this is your gift that you were fated to live and work near it and that one day people will look back on your work and be astonished.
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