Category Archives: MGM’s Photos

Street Photography: New York City, St Patrick’s Day Weekend 2012

22 Thursday Mar 2012

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My wife and I celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary this year by visiting New York City. We had a very good time!

Being a photographer who likes to shoot street photography, I took some shots while we walked and traveled about the city. In an effort to stave off being too blatant in my photography during our stay (which was supposed to be more about our anniversary than about me taking photos!), I brought along my compact Olympus point-and-shoot that I could keep in a little pouch at my side most of the time.

I’ve now uploaded most of the ones I liked or which had some special meaning. Maybe a few more, but these are the majority of the ones I’ll be uploading.



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Photo: View from a Train

20 Tuesday Mar 2012

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View from a Train, Schenectady, NY, March 2012 (© Michael Grace-Martin)

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A Trip to Texas

08 Thursday Mar 2012

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My family and I took a trip down to Texas last February (2012) to visit some of my relatives and to escape our northern winter clime. My relatives live near Houston (in The Woodlands). We also rented a car and spent about 1.5 days down in San Antonio.

As usual, I brought a camera and took photos. I really enjoy taking photos when I travel. A camera helps me to focus on and deeply explore my new surroundings. And having the photos helps me to remember the places I’ve traveled to of course!

Below is a gallery of my photos. I’ll likely be adding to them occasionally as I finish going through them…:-).



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Day at the Farm (male nude)

07 Wednesday Mar 2012

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Although Upstate New York has some urban areas, the vast majority of it consists of pastures, forests, farms, and rocky gorges. Due to this, it is an ideal place to photograph natural environmental nudes.

This series features a male nude rollicking on a small farm in the Finger Lakes area. Damaris Vasquez of Damaris Photography assisted.



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Abstract Driving by Michael Grace-Martin

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

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In late 2010, I discovered that one of my digital cameras takes fascinating photos from a moving car. In my Abstract Driving series, I feature some of the more interesting ones taken after nightfall. There is quite a range of abstraction presented here, from fairly clearly identifiable objects and settings to dramatic colors and shapes that are anyone’s guess. None of these shapes or patterns was created intentionally by shaking or in any other way moving the camera; they just came out this way while trying to take snapshots out/through the car window.

The thing I really like about these images is how they so casually lead the eye and the mind to take perceptual journeys that sort of evolve into metaphysical or spiritual journeys. It seems to have something to do with the natural emergence of the questions “what”, “how” and even “why” that occur when viewing them. These images are “naturally occurring” based on principled interactions among physical laws. So, they’re by-products of nature; yet visually, they seem to indicate another world or aspect of the world beyond our normal everyday perception.

Taking photos of this sort is completely new for me and was born out of keeping myself entertained on a relatively long car trip. I found the results so inherently compelling, though, that I’ve continued pursuing it more seriously.



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Fine Art Nudes by Michael Grace-Martin

05 Monday Mar 2012

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The fine art nude holds a special place in Michael’s photography career. It’s the second photographic subject Michael has pursued in earnest, after only the subject of children.

He began with self-portraits, but soon progressed to working with other models in late 2003. The photograph “Playing into the Light” (a photo of a woman playing a violin topless) is from that first session with another model. Since that session, Michael has worked with various models in various settings: homes, an old dance studio, an old barn, a marshy swamp, a gorge creek, and even on a rooftop.

Michael prefers presenting his nudes in black & white and sepia, but uses color when the colors in the photo appeal to him.

These fine art nude images and more can be found at Art vs Wall Gallery.



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Sarah Ellis by Michael Grace-Martin

04 Sunday Mar 2012

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Sarah Ellis 2009 by Michael Grace-Martin

Back in late October of 2009, I did a fine art nude photo session with semi-famous fine art nude model Sarah Ellis. Sarah has posed for many photographers–famous (including people like Renée Jacobs and Terry Richardson) and not famous.

Our session went 3 hours, and in addition to shooting stills for those 3 hours, I also had a videographer shooting along side me.

Sarah Ellis (not her real name) was a joy to work with and very professional. I hope to work with her again someday, but it has become quite a bit more difficult since she moved away from Upstate New York out to Seattle, Washington.

Sarah Ellis Video

I’ve only posted a few short clips (just over a minute each) of that 3 hours of video at my YouTube channel. However, I’m offering one longer uncut version of a session we did in one of the bedrooms. It is approximately 21.5 minutes long and you will see and hear me and Sarah talking about different poses, angles, lighting, etcetera.

The video is a large (over 500 megabytes) 854×480 resolution digital file in .MP4 format–a video format that plays on most computers and devices. You can download and play it on your computer for $6.00. or “rent” and watch it for 30 days for just $3.00.
Sarah Ellis Photo Session: Video #4

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Sarah Ellis Photo Prints

Want a more “physical” likeness of Sarah? I’ve chosen 15 of the most popular prints from the photo session and printed them as 15 full-bleed, gelatin sliver (professional Kodak) 4″x6″ prints and put them into their own convenient 4×6 clamshell box. You can open the box and slowly look through the stack of prints–much like you would with a high-quality photo book–for enjoyment, inspiration, and provocation at your own leisurely pace. I will ship anywhere in the US.

Here are thumbnails of the 15 photo prints (click to see larger):

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Fifteen 4″x6″ Photo Prints in Clamshell Box: $29.95

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Sarah Ellis eBook

If you would like to see the photos we got in book form, you can purchase an ebook containing the best 72 photos from the session as awesome high-quality images for just $6.00. You won’t be disappointed, I promise. Here is a low-resolution video preview of the eBook:

**** Fine Art Nude Photography eBook by Michael Grace-Martin

eBook in PDF Format: $6.00

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