Jon Roemer - Photographer - Blog

Small Hiccup - Updated new RSS Feed and About Page Links

Small hiccup with the new blog.  Shifted permalinks on the blog to an easier to read format.

New RSS Feed for the blog: New RSS Feed to Subscribe to the Blog Posts <- Please use this link (11/07/09)

Many of you have subscribed to the TypePad hosted blog. I hope that you will make the jump and subscribe to the new blog by clicking the link above.

Every post from the old blog has been re-created in the new one. So, all of the information, stories, how-to, and images are there. It also runs on Wordpress and searching the blog is now much easier (it's not reliant on the whims of Google's indexing robot.)

I've given the new blog a name, Learning to See. You can read about this on the new blog's About page.

New Site | New Blog

The new web site is arriving as is the new blog now that DNS servers are getting updated. It may take this process a day or so to fully complete.

New Web Site:  www.jonroemer.com (same address as the old site)

New Blog: www.jonroemer.com/blog/ (new address, new format)

New RSS Feed for the blog:  New RSS Feed to Subscribe to the Blog Posts

Many of you have subscribed to the TypePad hosted blog. I hope that you will make the jump and subscribe to the new blog by clicking the link above.

Every post from the old blog has been re-created in the new one. So, all of the information, stories, how-to, and images are there. It also runs on Wordpress and searching the blog is now much easier (it's not reliant on the whims of Google's indexing robot.)

I've given the new blog a name, Learning to See. You can read about this on the new blog's About page.

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This TypePad site is officially retired and will not be updated. It will remain online until the account runs out in early March, 2010.

Time to Move

Asbury Park, NJ, 2006

New website and new blog going live today.  Details forthcoming.

Time to move...

Whack-A-Photo

Well, those Lewis Library/Gehry photos keep popping up everywhere just like a game of whack-a-mole. Directly on the heels of the NY Spaces article comes the release of John Kraus' Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Digital Field Guide (Wiley Publishing, 07/2009.)

I wrote a brief entry about using the camera for architectural photography along with Canon's tilt/shift and wide-angle lenses. Examples include three of my photos from the Lewis Library series. There's also a nice give and take between myself and photographer, Tim Griffith, which succinctly gives a sense of the Canon platform versus using a digital medium-format back on a pancake-style view camera.

John did a wonderful job with the book. It's well written and illustrated with his great photography throughout.

Wiley Publishing

Amazon

John Kraus' Web Site

New York Spaces - Ivy Towers

Just hitting the newsstands today is the July-August issue of New York Spaces featuring Ivy Towers - Frank Gehry Shapes Things Up on Princeton's Historic Campus and my photos of the new Lewis Library.

Gallatin School - New Architecture Gallery

This past spring I photographed The Gallatin School's just renovated building. The school, part of New York University, specializes in individualized study and it hired Polshek Partnership Architects to give it a physical identity which matches its academic mission.

A full gallery is now on my web site.

Link to Gallatin web gallery at jonroemer.com.

Lewis Library Publication Takes the Gold Twice

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) recently awarded the commemorative program for the dedication of Princeton University's Lewis Library two gold medals as part of their 2009 Circle of Excellence Awards. One gold was in the Special Program Publications category and the other gold was for Excellence in Design. The program was a group effort encompassing my photography, design by Donna Ching of ChingFoster, and printing by Finlay Printing.

The program has four different page sizes, each creating a mass to mimic the structure of the building, and was printed with spot use of metallic ink to highlight the surfaces of Frank Gehry's design.

I have a gallery of my work on the project on my web site. I've also written about it in the blog here:

Getting Gehry with It

Lewis Library, Princeton University, Designed by Frank Gehry

Lewis Library Dedication Program Cover

Lewis Library Dedication Program Inside Spread

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On His Highness' Architectural Service

My photos of Demetri Porphyrios' Whitman College at Princeton University are now running as the cover story in The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment's spring magazine. 

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The Prince's Foundation

The Whitman College Gallery at JonRoemer.com

And the Cover Goes to... Bono?

Fordham has just published my U2 images in their magazine. As for any event of this scale there were a number of photographers on hand. This always raises the question, at least for photographers, who will get the cover? In this case it went to... Bono. I have to say the idea is brilliant given the context of the concert. I don't know if it was conceived of ahead of time or if someone seized on it after the fact but it works great.

Fordham Magazine Cover, Back of a Blue Book Signed by Bono

Fordham Magazine, Opening Spread, Blue Book Cover on Left

Larger Photo by Jon Roemer, Click Image to Enlarge

Fordham Magazine, Additional U2 Spread

Larger Photo by Jon Roemer, Click Image to Enlarge

Also in the magazine:

Fordham Magazine, Campaign Kickoff Spread

All Photos by Jon Roemer, Click Image to Enlarge

Fordham Magazine, Internal Ad

Portrait by Jon Roemer

Additional U2 photos from an earlier blog entry.

Web Site Update

New home page image (from the Monticello series) and a personal work gallery added over the weekend. The personal work gallery highlights recent work seen in the blog over the past few months.