The Visual Raconteur

I Create Visual Experiences

[richardkelly]

First time out to listen jazz the way it was Intended in intimate club downtown. @conalmapgh is a wonderful setting with excellent drinks and good food but the jazz is what seals the deal. Last evening they celebrated 3 years (1 year downtown) with a tribute to the great jazz Pianist with Pittsburgh roots Ahmad Jamal featuring Dr. James Johnson (slide 1), Alton Merrell, Cliff Barnes (slide 2), and Howe Alexander(slide 3). Providing the distinctive rhythm section was drummer James Johnson III, bassist Dwayne Dolphin. We were there to celebrate my wife @jennifer.pesci birthday so I hadn’t planned to make any photos but the vibe and the ambiance I spired me to make a few frames to remember the night that Jamal’s notes floated down Penn Avenue. #richardkellyexperience #richardkellyportraits #environmentalportraitswithstyle #shotoniphone #jazzmusic #pittsburghjazz (at Con Alma Downtown) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfyuahWr_vD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Camera Phone Scan > Robert in the gallery at the Art Image Resource < Enhanced Fujifilm FP3000b #richardkellyportaits #richardkellyexperience #instantfilmphotography #wanderlustcamera (at AIR: Artists Image Resource) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWnikPKrPPt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Camera phone scan > Erin in the shade in shady side at Jitters. < #richardkellyportaits #richardkellyexperience #instantportrait #fp3000b #fujifilm (at Jitters Cafe Shadyside) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWk-etwL-Xp/?utm_medium=tumblr

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When a small town boy/man does good one must celebrate from the rooftops, the church steeple and down by the river banks. The rust belt town of Furnass might besomeplace like that where a boy/man leaves to find something to then realize on a return trip through town that what he was looking for was right there in the library on the main street and also on the stage in the high school auditorium and sure enough on the pitchers mound out in the ball field. Author, Richard Snodgrass knows a thing or two about small towns. HIs recently released The Building - the first installment of the Furnass Towers Trilogy will capture your attention in the first paragraph, "Why do you always think everything depends on you? Because it does, that's why. He wanted to see what was going on." I know this town too, in fact, Richard and I grew up in the same small industrial river town, Beaver Falls. Furnass is not Beaver Falls but it is familiar to anyone who has lived in, traveled to or escaped from the river towns of Western Pennsylvania. If you like writers Larry McMurtry, Paul Auster, or Raymond Carver I think you will like Richard Snodgrass. And the Author portrait on the back cover is pretty good too.

[richardkelly]

Teaching / Learning black and White photography @pfpca is not just about learning a camera or how to process film and make Silver gelatin prints. It’s about slowing down, looking at lines, textures and light differently. It’s about doing something outside your major or seeing friendly faces in strangers in the street or in a place. It’s about meeting people in a Darkroom and the shares experience of overcoming something new that’s hard and easy at the same time. The past 14 weeks (give or take a snow day) this group did all of that and more. (at Pittsburgh Filmmakers' School of Film, Photography, and Digital Media)

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Clementine has a new look through fish eye lens. #richardkellyshootspeople #richardkellyportraits #clementinesworld Thank You @kristijanhoover for your intuitive sense that Clem had a worldly view.

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Crystal at work in the @pfpca Darkroom printing her portrait series of EQ staff. On display in the student gallery first floor. #analogphotography #ilford #richardkellyshootspeople @ilfordphoto (at Pittsburgh Filmmakers' School of Film, Photography, and Digital Media)

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My favorite lunch is the choolaah salad with salmon and a mango lemonade. @choolaahyum #richardkellyportraits #choolaahindianbbq #choolaahfoodphotography (at Choolaah Indian Bbq-Pgh)

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My view at last evenings supper in the Mon Valley with J and G for my birthday. #edgarthompsonworks #braddock #superiormotors (at Superior Motors)

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Took the studio lighting class on location to Prototype Pittsburgh A Feminist Maker Space- to photograph CEO’s Louise and Erin. I believe 100% in their mission. The photos where a lot of fun to make. This shot is as @edfmn was standing on a stool at the Band Saw, slide to the left to see @anthony_jager collaborating with Erin. #richardkellyportraits #studiolightingclass #pfpca (at Blumcraft Of Pittsburgh)

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Travel photos gray box #florida #midtone #3d #gray

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G likes the sun. #richardkellyshootspeople #richardkellyportraits #cyan

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One of these days. #abstract #green #square

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Things you can do with shadows and other stories On the walk to the farmers market. #light&shadows #signseverywhere #orange

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Its not everyday I get to pose with a man in his undees. Although there was that onetime with Jim Palmer but this time was while working on a project at the home of the undressed exhibit. #bts #photographerphotographed #undressed #frickpgh photo by @nanaaisha (at The Frick Pittsburgh)

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Scans of 4x5 on the work station for final tweaks before heading to Germany. Big prints on the way. #richardkellyarchive #urbanlamdscape #pittsburgh #bridges #smithfieldstreetbridge #9f7d42 (at Smithfield Street Bridge)

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One of my students wanted to walk down one of the alleys. Alleys have great texture.