Steve J Murray Photography

Excellent porfolio ... many of the portraits are especially powerful.

Steve - Thanks much for sharing these photos. I'm not sure how I found your portfolio, except that I saw one of your B&W shots and that made me want to see more. You consistently the frame the shot and get the pop, and you've done it for several decades: very cool. I'll return to your work so I can learn from it. Thanks, man.

Excellent porfolio. You have a gift. Brooklyn Park, wav'n at ya......

your seventies folder is just ... beautiful!. thanks for sharing.

Love your portfolio and based on what you say you seek in your biography i think you have succeded :) very good work --willy--

Thank you all for the positive comments. I just changed my "biography" that has been mentioned above: just so others know these are referring to an older biography statement.

Great collection of artistically composed photos. You are a real talented artist.Your compositions are very thoughtful and you expose them to perfection. Nice work and thanks for sharing.

Best regards...... Zafar

Steve J Murray, excellent Portfolio, very Artistic Touch in every Shot.

Thanks For encouraging my work. i have read your Biography i like your explanation of your taste.

Regards

Love your 70's people; a great document. I'm moved. The Dutton shot is amazing, and Regina is lovely.

Wonderful portraits of a time and space. (Notice I said space, not place. Maybe you had to be there. I vaguely remember!) What I do remember is the hope, the vitality, the optimism, the possibilities, the sense of being alive. It was such a vital time. It all came flooding back when I saw your image of Dutton. Fabulous! "I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are. I've got an answer, I'm going to fly away, what have you got to lose? Change my life, make it right, be my lady."

Maybe it's just a case of the older I get the better it was? Thanks for the memories.

Great '70s stuff!! One of my fav folders on PN.

Interesting. A deceptively simple approach to composition - strong and consistent, choosing excellent viewpoints, eliminating the extraneous. Refreshing.

Love the 70's work really inspirational.

Pretty darn good for a guy from St. Paul! I like your bio also, especially "interesting over ....".

I saw Your nice note in my portfolio, thank You so much.I can see we have things in common. I enjoy Your portfolio very much. Your daily life and activities and nature are really beautiful expressed.

I love the 70's portfolio. I want to be a hippie now. Do you think it is a good idea ?

I understand ;-)

Your comments on my portfolio brought me to yours and I am flattered. Your images are not only artistically excellent but you have the technical wherewithal that I am still trying to learn. I hope that you continue to have an interest in my work, and I will revisit to continue to enjoy all your work new an dold.

Thanks again.

Marco Ruggiero

Thanks for your words about my Portfolio!

Your 70's folder is amazing, looks like I can live there for a moment. Your name is on my favorites now!

Well, Steve, I've taken some more of my truly valuable time (which should have been spent cleaning up my place) wandering through your galleries. All your stuff is good but every once in a while I come across a photo that bypasses my brain and goes right to my emotional center. For me, these are the real goodies. There is something in those pictures that resonates, that you recognize as almost belonging to your own body of memory. Maybe that's what is meant by the common human experience. Anyway, philosophy aside, good work, and as we used to say back in those bygone hippy days "keep on truckin'". Regards, Jack

Great collection of photos; all of them have the 'human touch'. I also share your views about photography (taking interesting pictures over pretty pictures). All the best, Mike

Thanks for visiting to my portfolio and for the comment that you left behind. I could not imagine a better compliment than what you wrote... but, most of all, I am thankful because you brought me here. I am impressed by your PF... actually, I dont even know where to start but I do know that I will spent a lot of time wathching your images. I am also sure that I'll enjoy every minute of it. I already am.

Alejandro

Hey Steve. Yep these images bring back good memories of a great time in America. I even have some songs going through my head now. Nice work with out the fluff. I know what you mean about the Digital. Two years ago I would of told you I would never shoot digital. At times I still feel that way. Times have changed. So get out there and enjoy it. Looking at your work I think you will have a blast! Be good Randall

Steve, your work lives up to your biography. You have an ability to capture everyday scenes and bring emotion and interest to them. Great work.

Some of the best portraits around.

Very competent, well made work. Everything you do, you do well. You make arresting photographs with great facility. One senses that you have been lucky in your life and that that has given you much that by nature records well.

What is the next step?

jock sturges

OK, I'm seriously thinking about framing your post on the wall Jock. Really, thanks for that wonderful comment on my photos. What's next? Good question. Lately I've been thinking about focusing on portraiture again. My latest brainstorm is to advertise in our free classifieds where I work (large hospital organization) and offer free portraits, as long as its understood it is natural/environmental, not studio, and they see my previous work. If that doesn't scare them off, I may get some interesting prospects. Then the creative challenge begins! Otherwise, I'm just taking photos while I run the dog, and I'm needing some new challenges.

Thank you all, for commenting on my portfolio.

All I can say is awesome...love your 70's stuff. Really does that era justice! Good job!

Wayne

Hi Steve, thanks for coming to my site. About advertising free portrait shoots, I'm like you, tending to shy away from directly approaching an interesting subject. We all fear rejection. But I have a friend who makes it into an art form. He basically approach a person and sell his idea and usually he is successful. Better to ask then not at all.

You have a great portfolio. Well thought and composed even during the early years. Not many have that gift for composition. Best regards from Singapore.

I visit your protfolio frequently and I'm always delighted when you post your updates.

You show a real ability to approach a variety of subjects with very clear intent and to execute them well. It's evident to me that you do a consistent job of choosing subjects that you find meaningful and worth shooting. That you've managed to so over a 35+ year period is even more impressive.

A very pleasant and competently done portfolio. I too really enjoy the simple everyday things one sees (or some see) just stumbling along. Yes it would be nice to have the means to be a world traveler, but your work (and I hope mine) shows that interesting forms, figures, shapes and textures are irretrievably interwoven into our daily lives if only we see. Nice work. I enjoyed the trip.

Steve, I enjoyed exploring your portfolio, particularly the b&w 1970s folder. I really like and am inspired by your "Housescapes" folder. I find it impressive when one makes one's own home a photographic project and succeeds at it. Your pictures of the dishes drying in the sink, the stove, and the bay window are really well done. Excellent portraits as well! -- Regards, MS

thanks for taking time and leaving a comment on my "catch me, if you can". I like a lot your b/w pics. Best wishes, Monika

Your compositions are very disciplined and clever. I have really enjoyed your portfolio especially the old B&W's and your portraiture. Your portraiture shows sensitivity and an inimate connection between the subject and yourself. I find the ultimate test when looking through someones portfolio is to find photo's that fall into the "I wish I took that" category and I have found such photo's in your portfolio.

Hey Steve,

thank you so much for your nice comment on my portfolio section... they touch me a lot ... especially after seeing your pictures and being amazed how beautiful they are... especially for someone like me who is still so far away from where i want to be... still learning every time i assist a photographer ... still eager to learn every morning i wake up...

best to you from this side of the world....

anne-sophie

Steve,

I'm honoured by your comment on my portfolio, your 70's folder it's a piece of american history. Why people don't take photos like these anymore? Why people aren't like that anymore?

Best regards, Andrea

Nice professional work,Steve. regards)))

very nice and big portfolio you have...great works...congts.

happy new year...

Steve, I?ve just spent an enjoyable stretch of time reviewing and revisiting your collection again. It is truly exceptional work that deserves repeat visits to slowly digest. From your intimate and revealing portrait work to your fine artistic nature studies and you?re your simple observations of daily life and our surroundings. It?s exceptional and well crafted and inspires one to re-evaluate.

Steve, I've enjoyed visiting your portfolio very much. I like your vision as a photographer and the way you've captured life on your beautiful pictures over the years. A tres bientot, Laurent.

You've asked me about conversion to B&W - I really recommend you this website: http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/bw/converting_to_bw.htm :)

By the way - great gallery!

Cheers!

Joanna

Many great portraits in the 1970 folder :) I really like them, keep up the good work. Oiyvind Ganesh, 18 Norway

Traveling again here Steve, you really have the skills to portray human life.

Enjoyed the " voyage"

I just saw you shot of the river (12-1-2007) and decided to look at your other stuff. It is wonderful. The first image that caught my eye immediately was the cherries in the silver bowl. Love your portfolio.

You have a wonderful portfolio. Your photographs are incredible. Thank you for taking the time to comment on my photo.

Hi Steve, I'm very proud about your comment on my portfolio, thanks! I watched your gallery and it reveals your qualities as pro photographer. Great management of the light!

Thank you for the comments on my photos :) Your portfolio is a nice well-rounded one! Something for everybody :) Great job!

Youre work is really interesting and artistic! There is soul in youre exspresion!

Super Portfolio and great photography, I like your portrait and people shots best regards Carl

You have a diversified portfolio with nice shots and great colours, congratulations ! Alex.

Interesting portfolio with great shoots, congratulations ! Roxana.

i love your wonderfull portofolio.congratulation

Wow! I am very impressed by your portfolio. The 70's, housescapes, the landscapes are all wonderful. Is there anything you don't do well?

Hi Steve thanks for looking at my site.I enjoyed you rs as well. The 70's is classic.Great stuff!