A nice website with good photos.

Freelance photographer Richard N. Sparks is available for professional assignment work specializing in editorial, documentary, architectural, portrait, advertising, travel, sports and scenic landscape photography. Serving Kern County, California.

Trained as a photographer, ParkeHarrison did not follow in the well-practiced wake of environmentally charged photojournalists or social documentarians. Theirs was a cautionary tale fixed in the present day; it did not always project a future. Instead, ParkeHarrison conjures up a destiny in which humankind’s overuse of the land has led to environments spent and abandoned. The veracity of the photograph, from which all his images are constructed, provides the convincing backdrop for narratives of separation and loss. And the influences from literature, theater, cinema, and painting enrich the work with symbols supportive of the artist’s universal subjects, particularly the struggles of the Everyman…

In The Architect’s Brother, the theme of the individual human responsibility is recast in a new photographic language resonant with the complexities and uncertainties of present- day life, with its consuming technologies and greater dependency on the land and its resources. In the innovative hands of ParkeHarrison and his wife and partner Shana ParkeHarrison, who collaborates in the conception and execution of the images, this language does not transcribe the natural world. Instead, it reinvents it in compelling personal narratives that attest to the continuing power of art to address contemporary cultural issues.

Come explore familiar and unexpected views of the microscopic world with these colorized images from electron microscopes at the University of Hawaii.

The Trained Eye series began in October of 2000 as I wandered in the railyard near downtown Colorado Springs. Boxcars were parked on sidings for the weekend.While gazing at the sides of the well used cars, I began to see pictures. It was like being at a gallery. I made numerous trips to the railyard and I photographed what I saw.I share them with you now.

All of these images are from the sides of boxcars, coal cars, miscellaneous freight cars and a caboose. These cars have been scratched, gouged, painted, scraped, rusted, and repainted over the course of their lifetimes. From a distance they appear uniformly colored, neat, and tidy. But, up close, with their context removed, they have become the gallery you see here.

I’ve can’t remember not being interested in photography, in my early teens I taught myself the basics of the black & white darkroom, but it wasn’t until much later, around 97/98, that I took up street photography with something of a passion.

About 80% of my photographs are taken with a 28mm lens, I like to get in close, to make a connection with my subject and hopefully draw the viewer in as well. There’s nothing I like better than to wander around town, camera strapped to my wrist, ready to react when something comes my way.

As for influences, well I started out on the path laid down by Eugene Atget, Walker Evan, Robert Frank and then took a lot of diversions by way of Garry Winogrand, Bruce Davidson and most of the Magnum photographers, in fact I’m discovering and re-discovering photographers all the time. In spirit, I’m probably closest to Agtet.

Nice and precious photos from Egypt.