Vintage Black Cat looking out at the rain
Vintage toned Black cat looking out the window at the rain and staring at the rain drops running down the glass. View from the outside looking in. This image is available for licensing / royalty free stock. Learn more Click on the cat to purchase a print.
Factory Worker
Unemployed Factory Worker a photograph by Bob Orsillo. Camera: Olympus E 3 12-60 f2.8 Olympus Zuiko lens Social commentary on the loss of jobs and rising long term unemployment
Razor Blade on Canvas
Conceptual metaphor still-life. Old razor blade on canvas, interested by multiple threads.
Prison Cell Destruction
Prison Cell by © Bob Orsillo Black and white photograph of prison cell with a blown out wall and ceiling. Bunk beds still hang on the wall, bent and twisted from all the rubble. Click on the picture to learn more.
Wild Duck Feathers
Wild Duck Feathers by Bob Orsillo Wild Duck Feathers, a cross cut of wood and old duck canvas are the main ingredients to this nature still-life photograph by Bob Orsillo. Click on the photograph to learn more.
One and Two at 3:15 Am
Entrance One by Bob Orsillo 3:15 am Exit To Two by Bob Orsillo 3:45 am Numeral Industrial Noir.
Windy Day At The Beach
Windy Afternoon by Bob Orsillo Nothing like a windy day at the beach, unless of course your umbrella turns inside out and goes flying over a fence never to be seen again. This print is from stock video footage I made last month. The animation footage is available at FOTOLIA If you want a print click on the picture. Windy Afternoon © →
The Shoe
Shoe and Cobblestones by Bob Orsillo
Cape Neddick Lighthouse
Revisiting a favorite spot Cape Neddick Lighthouse, York Maine better known as Nubble Light. Photograph was made at ocean level down at the bottom of the rocks; with an Olympus E3 14mm f22, late afternoon light. A little history about the lighthouse: The Cape Neddick Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in York, Maine, United States. In 1874 Congress appropriated $15,000 to build →
New Hampshire Winter
Copyright © Bob Orsillo An early March snow storm ends leaving the pines trees dusted with soft white powder before a dark sky sunset. Photograph was made along the North River in New Hampshire.
Groundhog’s Day or just thinking of spring
Buy this photograph Photograph Copyright © Bob Orsillo Photographed in the wild, a Groundhog pops his or her head out of the ground to check on the weather or maybe the guy with the camera. About The Groundhog: The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, land beaver or whistlepig, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large →
Melting Ice On A Mushroom
Photograph Copyright ©2008 Bob Orsillo
Foggy Morning Moose Nottingham, New Hampshire
Buy Now Photograph Copyright ©2008 Bob Orsillo Moose are mostly diurnal. They are generally solitary with the strongest bonds between mother and calf. Two individuals can sometimes be found feeding along the same stream. The males are polygamous and will seek several females to breed with. Mating occurs in September and October. During this times both sexes will call to each other. Males →
Seagull on a park bench
Photographing people photographing seagulls on a park bench. Seagulls enjoy a sunny park bench as much as the rest of us do. Copyright © 2008 Bob Orsillo So what is a Seagull anyway? According to Wikipedia it is .... Gulls (often informally Seagulls) are birds in the familyLaridae. They are most closely related to the terns (familySternidae) and only distantly related to auks, andskimmers, and more distantly to the waders. Most gullsbelong to the large genus Larus. They are typically medium to large birds, usually grey orwhite, often with black markings on the head or wings.They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls.They have stout, longish bills, and webbed feet. Gull species range in size from the Little Gull, at →
One last goodbye Portland Maine
Portland Maine Partir, c’est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.) French Proverb. Also incorporated into Edmond Haraucourt, Rondel de l’Adieu.
Calm Before the Storm – Kennebunkport, Maine
Calm Before the Storm - Kennebunkport, Maine Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81), English statesman, author. Coningsby bk. 7, ch. 5 (1844).
The Port Hole Fountain
The Port Hole Fountain - Portland, Maine Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spanish artist. Quoted in: Jean Cocteau, Journals, pt. 1, “War and Peace” (1956).
52 Wharf Street
The best number for a dinner party is two—myself and a dam’ good head waiter. Nubar Gulbenkian (1896–1972), British oil tycoon, socialite. Daily Telegraph (London, 14 Jan. 1965).
Morning Snow Portland Maine
Sunrise Snow Storm Portland Maine. Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. Ezra Pound (1885–1972), U.S. poet, critic. Ancient Music. The poem—originally dropped from Pound’s 1916 edition of Lustra when it was considered offensive, later reinstated—is a pastiche of an anonymous 13th-century hymn sung annually at Reading Abbey, England: Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing →
Commercial Street Flurries
Afternoon Snow Flurries on Commercial Street. Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer. Henry David Thoreau (1817–62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden,“Spring” (1854).
Photography Time Line 1852 – 1855
1853 German miners begin to use a compressed-air drill. 1853 U.S. inventor Richard Hoe improves his rotary press, developing the web press which can print 18,000 sheets per hour on both sides. 1853 U.S. inventor Alfred Ely Beach patents a typewriter that produces embossed letters for the blind. 1853 Don Luis Susini establishes the world's first mass-production system for making cigarettes, in Havana, Cuba. 1853 There are 3 million →
Photography Time Line 1851- 1852
1851 English sculptor F. Scott Archer develops the wet-collodion photographic process. Collodion-coated (nitrocellulose) glass plates are exposed in the camera while still wet and then developed and fixed immediately. It permits instantaneous exposures but requires photographers in the field to take portable darkrooms. 1851 English scientist William Henry Fox Talbot takes the first high-speed flash photograph. He uses a spark produced from the →
Photography Time Line 1835 – 1851
1835 English scientist William Henry Fox Talbot publishes a paper describing the paper negative. He exposes paper infused with silver chloride to light, which then separates into fine silver and dark tones from which he can take positive prints. 1835 The English pioneer of photography William Henry Fox Talbot creates Picture of a Latticed Window, the oldest existing photographic negative. November 23, 1835 Scots-American inventor →
Photography Time Line 1665 – 1833
1665 Anglo-Irish scientist Robert Boyle constructs a small, portable camera obscura, an early form of the pinhole camera. 1665 English scientist Samuel Morland demonstrates an early form of steam pump to newly restored British king Charles 1802 English physicist Thomas Wedgwood announces to the British Royal Institution that by using a camera obscura he can create images projected on paper saturated with silver nitrate. He →
