Composing with Images (@composingimages) is Billie Hara and Bill Wolff’s photoblog. They conceived of the idea one day while talking about photographs on Twitter. (They actually met on Twitter.) At first they thought they would find a name that played on the whole Billie/Bill thing. That didn’t happen.
Here’s how the photoblog works. Each week there is a weekly theme. Billie and Bill each choose their photo they think best depicts that theme. The photos will be posted side-by-side on Sundays. Comments are welcome.
Billie Hara (@partsnpieces) is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. Her photographs tend to depict the ordinary in an extraordinary light. She favors the complexity of black and white images.
Billie’s primary camera is a Nikon D-90 with both an 18-105mm and a 70-300mm lens. On occasion, she’ll use a Holga, a very old Yashica-44 (Twin Lens Reflex), and if the mood strikes, her original Nikon-N65 (film camera).
Bill Wolff (@billwolff) is an Assistant Professor of Writing Arts at Rowan University. His photographs attempt to reveal the detail in ordinary everyday objects. He likes a lot of shadow. He also prefers film to digital though these days finds digital more convenient. Bill’s photographs have appeared in galleries in Salt Lake City, UT, and West Orange, NJ.
The cameras he will use for the photos on this blog are: a Panasonic DMC-Fz50 digital SLR with 35 - 420mm Lumix lens, a Canon AE1 with a variety of lenses. He has three toy cameras that might find their way into the blog: a Holga modified by HolgaMods, and a Diana F+, and an Akira TC-002. For Through the Viewfinder (TTV) photos, he’ll use an Argus 75 or a Kodak Duaflex II.
Die-hard Bruce fans, they are both presenting at Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium, September 25 - 27, 2009, in West Long Branch, NJ. If you’re in the area, stop on by.
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