Gardens Archives - Mel Curtis

Creating Stuff

This is perhaps the coldest, wettest spring I have ever seen since I moved to Seattle. Normally the cool damp weather doesn't bother be me much. As I tell folks I spent the first 20 years of my life here mostly in the darkroom. So I often missed the worst of it. Sunny days were never dark room days. But…

June 17, 2022Floral, Gardens, Musings, Odds and Ends

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I Can Fix it in Post

Talk about weird weather. The cold blast came in last night as predicted. Covering much of the country as far as I can tell. I didn’t pay much attention to the forecasts as it was so beautifully sunny yesterday. A bit nippy, but not uncomfortable. I wake up this morning and see the roof tops covered with white stuff and…

February 22, 2022Gardens, Landscapes, Musings, Odds and Ends, Seattle

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Our House

Colors are starting to perk up. I have a feeling they will be off this year due to the summer heat and drought. A lot of trees seem to be going straight from greenish to brown. Not the usual burst of color. But then our colors don’t usually peak until the end of October. We often have color into the first…

October 12, 2021architecture, Celebrations, Floral, Gardens, Landscapes, Musings, Odds and Ends, Seattle, Uncategorized

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The Last Silver Print

This is one of the last silver prints I ever made in 2006. I made it in a friend’s darkroom as I had already shut my down. My friend had a much better darkroom than I did, but I recall not having any fun printing that day. Probably because I was reprinting and not creating something new. I was making…

August 28, 2021architecture, France, Gardens, Landscapes, Musings, Odds and Ends

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Hear Yourself Think

On a less existential note… we dined out last Friday for the first time. It was kind of nice. At 50% capacity, you could actually hear yourself think and carry on a conversation. Carter had his usual martini, but for health reasons, they couldn’t do a twist. Only a lemon wedge, sliced with gloved hands, handled only with tongs. I…

May 19, 2021architecture, Celebrations, Floral, Gardens, Portraits, Seattle

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And Snow it Goes

Well it was pretty while it lasted. But snow doesn’t last very long around here. It seems we get a quick blast of snow and within a day or 2 the rains return and it all goes away. Here’s how it looked on Sunday, Valentine’s Day. Great for some quick sledding or a snowman or 2. Today it is all…

February 18, 2021Gardens, Musings, Odds and Ends, Uncategorized

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That’s the Rabbit Hole I was Talking about

Good luck with the new printer. I think yours has the same foot print as mine. And mine hides in a closet out of sight. I had the studio wired in such a way that the chords could sneak in from the wall inside of the closet. Makes it tidy that way. When I print large panoramics, I slide a…

January 29, 2021Gardens, Landscapes, Musings, Odds and Ends, Uncategorized, Washington DC

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Film Takes Work

I like that old Diana image too. I like most of my Diana works. And I must confess to liking my old film black and white works over my digital color works. I feel good about my digital stuff, but they are rather easy to make and maybe that diminishes their value to me. And maybe my black and white…

January 6, 2021Floral, Gardens, Landscapes, Musings, Odds and Ends, Uncategorized

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A Mysterious Roll of the Dice

Hey man, how are you doing? And yes, that image is reminiscent of my earlier work, probably because it is my earlier work. That angel was in a cemetery in Hannover, Germany and taken in the spring of 1999. I was shooting only film then, obviously, and still working with my usually stuff. Infrared film, Widelux camera, almost all black…

January 8, 2020Gardens, Germany, Landscapes, Musings, Odds and Ends, Travels

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But Does That Cheapen Them?

When I first started the project and the box was the final presentation, the panoramic work did not fit, format wise, so I decided that would be a separate project. I am going to let things stew a bit to see what might be a more integrated coup of work. Or it just may remain separate groups. Need to think…

July 16, 2019architecture, France, Gardens, Landscapes, Paris, Travels