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6×6 is the blog of editorial and commercial photographer Tait Simpson. Brooklyn, New York creating artistic environmental portraits and landscape images.


Archive for the ‘Color Study’ Category

Fishermen pt. 2

Holmavik Harbor 01 Holmavik Harbor 02

Where are all the Fishermen?

The West Fjords of Iceland are dotted with small fishing towns. Yet these towns seem to do very little actual fishing since the mid seventies when a quota system was enacted as a response to an overfishing crisis. While it has been successful in allowing the population of herring around Iceland to rebound, it has [...]

What do you do with 12 plastic pails?

I had the need for a single red plastic sand bucket as a prop a while back and found that it was a bit difficult to find in the winter in NY. So a quick search of the ol’ interweb brought me 12 plastic pails just in time for the shoot. Well, what do you [...]

Pride

I know its not environmentally kosher, in fact I was a little shocked to see it, but there is an undeniable beauty of so many balloons in the sky. It reminds me of the end of Le Ballon Rouge, Albert Lamorisse’ 1956 short film. From Reykjavik’s gay pride parade earlier this month: Pride

Hotel Delmano

You won’t often find me leaning over to take photographs of flowers, small animals or other such things, but here are a few images from a short series I was working on for a little while called Flowers at the Hotel Delmano. Each time I’d pass it seemed there was a new bouquet in the [...]

RGB

I think I must be rebelling against my recent re-exploration of B&W because lately I’ve been carrying around a lot of color film and even shooting a number of pure color studies (and primary colors no less). Here are a some milk crates bookended by two images of dappled light (more dappled light here and [...]