STORYTELLER

Category: Photographer, Photography, Laskowitzpictures, Ray Laskowitz, Pictures, Color

  • Left Behind I’ve had an interesting week in Storytellerland. I’ve experimented with synthetic media and I closed with my more traditional layering of photographs to create this image of what we left behind. As you know, I’m starting to work on a project about what we, as a country, leave behind. It’s not enough that…

  • In My Dreams

    Learning, Always Learning I’ve been at it again. It doesn’t help that DALL-E sends me credits so I can play without cost. I suppose there is the sunk cost of my time. But,I don’t mind that as long as I’m learning… something. This is a great example of synthetic media generated by AI using only…

  • What’s Cooking?

    I like to eat. You like to eat. I also like to cook, but not all the time. Musical Miss is a better cook than I am, but she doesn’t like to cook everyday. So, we go out to eat in restaurants, cafes or buffets. Well, buffets are out with the arrival of CoVid and…

  • Synthetic Media

    Generative AI pretty much exploded this week, not so much for visuals which are getting more sophisticated by the hour, but for words and questions. It seems like every app that we all use has some version of ChatGPT-4. Microsoft built it into Bing. Google built into Workspace. Facebook is building their own version. The…

  • Nature’s End

    Green. That’s what I felt like seeing. I thought you might enjoy it too. Not only do I like the color, but I like the stillness of these pictures. Quietude and solitude are two reasons that we bought the farm. These pictures are not from there. We have trees, but they are certainly not huge,…

  • Quarter Notes

    The French Quarter. It’s a tourist destination within a tourist destination. Many people come to New Orleans and never leave it. That’s too bad because there’s plenty more to see and do. This isn’t about that. This is about scenes that I saw while I was roaming the Quarter’s streets. I’m not a big fan…

  • Magic and Light

    Sometimes I get Lucky. Very lucky. I wasn’t even going to go to the Quarter. I went. I couldn’t find parking in my usual far away place. I drove through the streets until a parking place almost right in back of the cathedral appeared. That was luck too. I started walking through the streets, making…

  • Magic And Light

    I posted this photograph on Instagram. I don’t usually cross post, but it’s popular there so I thought you should see it too. This is probably the most well known location in New Orleans. St. Louis Cathedral is a destination for everyone, not just Catholics who go to church there. Aside from the outside European…

  • What You Thought You Saw

    There are two things that this photograph represents. A new technique that I’ve just mastered that sort of smushes the image and its color. So, I’m reworking many of my signature New Orleans pictures. And, two, I’m getting ready to do the deal with the art agency I mentioned a week or so ago. Of…