Despite living in Massachusetts for many years, I have rarely had the money and time to vacation on the Cape. But I do get there occasionally, usually for a day or two at a time.
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Camera Roll Highlights 2022
I’ve been posting my old photos that I’ve had tagged as possible painting inspiration but had not gotten around to painting. (See also: 2024, 2023.) These include photos I considered not technically good enough as photographs to go on my Unsplash, but still with some seed of interest or inspiration. You are free to paint these, or I may come back to them someday!
Below, find 37 photos from 2022.
Travel Camera Roll: Maine
Since I’ve been doing my camera roll inspo posts, I’ve noticed I often collect larger numbers of photos from travel because the sights are novel to me. The photos may not be great, but they each show some aspect of place that I want to remember, and that I would combined to use if painting that location. So I’ve decided to sequester unused “possible future reference photos” from each trip into its own post.
This post contains photos from various trips to Ogunquit and Bar Harbor, Maine.
Paint my photos!
An online art friend introduced me to the site Paint My Photo (pmp-art.com), a gallery where folks can post their own photos to give permission for artists to paint them, and artists can post art based on those photos. It is an old-fashioned-looking, kinda janky, obvious labor-of-love website with decidedly old-internet feel. This isn’t a slam; I like that. What I really like is the way they pair the art and photos, so when you’re on a photo you can see all the art made from it, and when you’re on a piece of art you can see the reference photos. I’ve added a bunch of my photos and art.
Travel Camera Roll: Vancouver
I actually lived in Vancouver for half of 2024 (regular readers of the blog will recall me confidently declaring that I was moving permanently!), but I took fewer photos than I normally would on a trip or even in everyday life during that period. So I’m calling this a “travel camera roll.” The photos that are exclusive to this post have been taken on a quick administrative post-move trip in January 2025; the others are reposted from Unsplash or previous blog posts.
Travel Camera Roll: Halifax 2022
Since I’ve been doing my camera roll inspo posts, I’ve noticed I often collect larger numbers of photos from travel because the sights are novel to me. The photos may not be great, but they each show some aspect of place that I want to remember, and that I would combined to use if painting that location. So I’ve decided to sequester unused “possible future reference photos” from each trip into its own post.
These photos are from the Halifax, Nova Scotia area, fall 2022. More on this trip can be found in my post Travel Sketches: Nova Scotia.
Travel Camera Roll: Nevada, November 2022
Since I’ve been doing my camera roll inspo posts, I’ve noticed I often collect larger numbers of photos from travel because the sights are novel to me. The photos may not be great, but they each show some aspect of place that I want to remember, and that I would combined to use if painting that location. So I’ve decided to sequester unused “possible future reference photos” from each trip into its own post.
This post contains photos is from my trip to Nevada in November 2022. More photos and travel sketches from this trip can be found at Travel Sketches: Las Vegas/Mojave Desert.
Camera Roll Highlights 2023
Earlier, I posted my 2024 Camera Roll photos that I considered possible painting inspiration but had not gotten around to painting. My intention was to “clear out” the year so I could move on painting from more immediately recent photos in 2025. I think this has been helpful to me in feeling less guilt about … Read more
Photos lie: sunset edition
I’ve long felt that my phone camera makes sunlight too orange, especially at sunrise and sunset. Clouds that appear pink to me will show up as bright orange in the phone. Of course, that affects me when I go to paint the sunset, especially if I’ve forgotten what it actually looked like. I tested my … Read more
Travel Camera Roll: New Hampshire, October 2023
Since I’ve been doing my camera roll inspo posts, I’ve noticed I often collect larger numbers of photos from travel because the sights are novel to me. The photos may not be great, but they each show some aspect of place that I want to remember, and that I would combined to use if painting that location. So I’ve decided to sequester unused “possible future reference photos” from each trip into its own post.
This one is from a weekend mini-break the White Mountains of New Hampshire to ride the Cog Railway at Mt Washington. I have already painted some scenes from this trip in Photo to Painting: Blue November Edition. I also posted some travel sketches from this trip in The New England Fall Foliage Palette, or, Autumn Palette Mark II. Here are some remaining ones that I thought might be worth painting, but I never got around to it.