School starts TOMORROW

by imagist on September 1, 2010

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M8, 135 mm Elmar on Visoflex with right angle viewer

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Cropping for the story: Last day before school starts

by imagist on September 1, 2010

Generally I feel fairly confident about if, when and how to crop my photographs. School begins today for many students in the greater Milwaukee area, including my own city of Mequon. I took Sophia to our favorite park for our last “Grandpa day” before she begins her full days in school; and was surprised at how many kids, parents and grandparents did the same. This photograph struck me as particularly on for this topic. But for the first time in a long time I truly can’t decide which crop would work best to accompany such a story.

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Leica M8, 135 Elmar on Visoflex with right angle finder

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Riding blind and loving it

August 29, 2010

This morning my friend, Kevin Meyers, competed in the Double Bong 40k, ABR Wisconsin State Time Trial Championship, Kansasville, WI. Kevin lost his sight in 1987 when his racing boat hit a wake at 60 mph, threw him into the water, where he was hit by another boat. Lucky to be alive; and living to the [...]

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The occasional (seasonal) friday flower

August 27, 2010

Feeling the season change. Most of the blooms around the house have dried up. Leaves turning toward yellow. Seems like we have only wild ones left. (click image for larger view) Leica M8, 65 Elmar on Visoflex III

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Miksang and flow

August 26, 2010

In an eMail Alan Magayne-Roshak said of my August 24th blog post, “I love it.  It’s easy to get lost in it (in a good way). This reminds me of a David Vestal column where he quoted Picasso as saying, “I don’t seek, I find.” ( The column is at home; I hope I got it [...]

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Searching for the never before seen (in this way)

August 24, 2010

We look at so many photographs on the web, on the backs of our little digicams or phones and in print. Some minimal fraction of those images surprise us because the photographer has shown us a subject we’ve never seen before; or shown us a familiar subject in some unfamiliar way; or has managed to harmoniously [...]

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The Occasional Friday Flower

August 20, 2010

(click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit

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Refreshing our Point of View

August 19, 2010

Ann and I have a tradition of not working on our birthday. The BD person chooses where and how we will spend the day. Ann chose Mauthe Lake as one of several destinations for her birthday. Knowing we’d have a few hours of leisure I packed up rarely used M gear including: the Visoflex with both [...]

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This small world traveler seeks surprises

August 17, 2010

The macro (and even micro) world attracts my attention (again and again); wanting to get ever closer; seeking to discover forms, shapes and lines which my naked human eye fails to appreciate. The constant struggle to achieve both depth and visual poetry simultaneously frustrates and seduces the optical explorer of the world; whether one travels [...]

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Site Specific Design by Nathaniel Reinartz

August 12, 2010

Back in May I had the opportunity to photograph a chandelier designed, forged and fabricated by Nathaniel Reinartz. In his portfolio catalog Nathaniel describes it as mild steel, fire scale and beeswax finish, diameter: 36” height: 48”. The wax lamp shades have each taken on its own subtly different shape from the heat of the electric [...]

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