b&w darkroom - Pablo DiCiacco - - Colorado Springs, Colorado719-623-5162
darkroom@onewalrus-ink.org
portfolio
Lincoln Station
A wall? A floor? A ceiling? A cafeteria? While the original shot was in color, the tonal qualities had to take precedence over the chromatic ones.
Color version here.
Night Crawler
Another creature of the night distrurbed by the annoying bipedal with opposable thumbs and a curiousity of what goes on under rocks and stones.
Forty-Eighth Eye
Is it 48th and Broadway? I really don’t remember and didn’t make a notation. It’s near the Morgan Stanley Building. The photo reminds me why I prefer living in Colorado. I should dig up some Tokyo photos. It’s like Manhattan on steroids.
Baby Berries
If you stand close enough you’ll smell licorice. Why? Because I sprayed the entire strawberry patch with a dilution of anise oil. Anise (Pimpinella anisum) is the herb (and vegetable too) which is used to flavor licorice. Squirrels and birds hate the smell of it, and so will not eat my crop of plump, delicious [...]
Bird Spout
A feather-friend visited the free shower following a thirty-minute thunderstorm. It missed the bathtub by one day, as the rain-barrel was re-installed in that very location. His friends probably thought he was a liar when they returned the next day to partake in the shower.
Old Watch
Started its life being run over by a mail truck. Who knew the Swiss were so durable.
Nineteen-years ago I ordered this Swiss Army watch through the mail. I think my son had been gestating for a month at the time. About a month before his birth the package finally arrived.
Seeing the 5×7 bubble-wrap [...]
Winter Leaf
Although my real black and white darkroom has been in storage for nearly a decade, that’s no reason not to continue creating images using the tried and true zone system of Ansel Adams Minor White.