George Lottermoser, imagist.com/blog

0 degrees Fahrenheit

“Photography is about sustaining a creative continuum until you create a visual orgasm, suspended in Time for eternal ecstasy. What you see forever may only occur for a fraction of a second and only occurs once. I have tried to re-create photographs - you can’t. Better or worse, yes - but the same, no! Nothing in this Life is ever the same twice. You might THINK it is, but you just aren’t looking closely enough.” — James Elliott, from his essay on Kiss On Frosted Glass

(click image for larger view)

Leica R8/DMR, 100 Apo Macro Elmarit

we all chase something
choosing what, when and where to chase
makes all difference

May we chase and capture that which makes a positive difference in the world in 2010.

“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it.” — Edward Weston

“This is where the artist comes in, arranging in a frame the scattered elements into a story, anticipating and chasing the light, bringing it all together to create an evocative image capable of communicating the visual experience… . — Guy Tal

(click image for larger view)

Leica R8/DMR, 100mm Apo Macro Elmarit

happy holidaze
and to all
a happy new year

click here for a slide show of additional holiday photographs

(click image for larger view)

grand pa and grand child
duets with me on guitar
and she on harmonica

(click images for larger view)

hiking to observation towers

developing the habit of sharing a chocolate malt
between pinball and bowling games

or just talking around the kitchen table

always delightful time
well spent

Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron

father plus son

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”
— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

(click image for larger view)

Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt

“In good writing, words become one with things.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

perhaps also in good photography
the image becomes one
with the subject
as well as
the moment

for the moment I think so

(click images for larger view)

Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt

Sometimes we go out with our cameras in the hope of freezing the natural world with absolute clarity. Only to find that the light, the film or digital sensor speed, our ability to focus or hold still, produces less than the clarity we hoped for. Yet magic, if not photographic perfection, can occur. We may just find that we captured poetry rather than clarity.

(click image for larger view)

Leica R8/DMR, 350 Telyt

(click images for larger view)

the fall leaves continue to fascinate both eye
and mind (as metaphor for life’s cycles)
(R8/DMR with 60mm Macro Elmarit)

Gazing up while waiting for malts with Sophia
(M8 with 28mm Summicron)

holiday remnants seen while waiting for David

along with a striking SUV interior

and finally a delightful David

a stroll about Virmond park
(with R8/DMR and 350mm Telyt)

after a day’s work - young men park the landscape truck - for a bit of ball

and found myself mesmerized by wind, waves and birds

porch sitting- mesmerized by the light

“Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.” - Ruth Bernhard

within the process
changing before our eyes, see
us in this mirror

(click image for larger view)

Leica M8, Visoflex III, 135 Elmar

we fall
weather leaf or whether life
returning

(click image for larger view)

Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit