I’ve been fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of the owner of DeadHead Lumber Company and I’m hugely impressed by the work he does and the quality of the product.

Here’s the lowdown: DeadHead Lumber reclaims logs that came to rest at the bottom of the Maine lakes as a bi-product of the logging indusry. The logs are indigenous hardwoods that grew in Maine’s pristine virgin forests. These particular hardwood trees were allowed to grow slowly, resulting in the tight growth rings, unrivaled size, density and rich color that are coveted trademarks of old-growth lumber. You can learn more about the company by visiting their website: www.deadheadlumbercompany.com.

Below are shots taken of the owner’s latest project; a loft space converted into a small office. The room boast high ceilings, large windows and of course, an amazing hardwood floor.

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You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. – William Albert Allard

I wholeheartedly agree with what William Albert Allard says above. As a photographer, everything I see is a picture. The mundane, the ordinary, is never ordinary in my eye. I firmly believe that beauty surrounds us, we just have to be open to it. I also believe in using whatever tools I have to hand to capture the beauty around me and often times manipulate that which I choose to bring forward, enhance and expose. In the images below, I took a vase of tulips I received for Valentine’s Day and photographed the flowers specifically with my iPhone to explore the tulips in a way I had not explored flowers before, creating imagery that takes on serveral different qualities, yet in my mind, enhancing the beauty and wonder of the original product. At the end of the day, I like to expose the subjectivity of all the images I make using whatever tools I have to hand. I plan to show some of these images in the upcoming Bideford Art Walk, February 26, 2010.

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I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time…Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism—real life—the now. - Berenice Abbott

For Polaroid lovers everywhere, my first endeavor after a 3 year hiatus of not using my SX-70 camera using TZ Artistic Polaroid film. I purchased the film at http://www.polarpremium.com which had a turn around time of two days (not long to wait seeing as I had waited 3 years to get this particular camera out).

The beauty of the SX-70, for me, is the ability to focus it, adding some depth of field to the final image. I hadn’t used TZ Artisitc before, so I wasn’t sure what the results would be. The film develops quite differently than the SX-70 film I was used to, but that, to me, just adds to the beauty and quality of the final image.

This image was composed soley with natural light coming through the window of my studio. Like any other new photographic product, you do have to experiment with it a bit to get the best results, but I was pleased with the overall tonal quality of the image to the left and look foward to more experiments with the film.

For more Polaroid images, visit http://www.angelacoulombe.com/polaroids.php.

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