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graphic designer, photographer, videographer

A warm welcome to Mark and Sylvia Mondloch

Last week I had the privilege of meeting Mark and Sylvia Mondloch of Silver Creek Pottery & Forge. After exchanging a few emails, and a phone call, with Mark, we met at my studio to photograph some of Mark’s fine metal work.

Fireplace Tool Set (detail) by Mark Mondloch
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(Slide show of additional views of this Tool Set)

Garden Accents by Mark Mondloch
While the neutral formica sweep worked well for the Tool Set. I felt it appeared a bit sterile for the the flowers. Mark and Sylvia made a trip to Stein’s Garden Center and found some mulch and moss; which I believe was just enough to give the Garden accents a little context.
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(Slide show of additional views of these Garden Accents)

Wednesday weed with web

“I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.” — Wynn Bullock

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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit with apo2x

“The medium of photography can record not only what the eyes see, but that which the mind’s eye sees as well. The camera is not only an extension of the eye, but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye, visible.

My pictures are never pre-visialized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or rejetct the results of my work.

I feel the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can’t go out and logically plan a picture, but when you come back, reason then takes over and verifies or rejects whatever you’ve done.” — Wynn Bullock

Enlightening: communion with ancestors

a simple lamp shade
now illuminates the stair landing

made from oak sticks
(left over from the parquet floor installation)
and a little mulberry paper

standing in front of dad’s milling machine
making 32 (near) perfect cuts
for 16 lap joints
provided precious time to commune
with his (tool and die maker) spirit
as well as his father’s (cabinet maker) spirit

smell the oak shavings
and well oiled steel

see
the roots of the mighty oak
clawing the damp earth
paper drying on felts
in a far away land

the soul of the matter
create usefulness
mindfully

Equivalence.

“The idea of equivalence is an equation that is all at once. It takes in the entire mind. Everything works for a moment. The blessing of the photographic image is the precision involved. There is no chance, except the chance that there is an intelligent being who will press the shutter at the moment of the equation. Then the image stays as a cogent emblem of eternity.” – Walter Chappell

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on the way to a meeting
about a (maybe) video shoot
stopped at the falls
to feel the season
the day
the moment

didn’t get the gig
only an equivalent

What’s the story? (and where have you been)

Walking along Farwell Avenue
evidence found
of another’s pause and edit of
what I assume to be
an alcoholic beverage
(I’m thinking
Ann can never get enough olives
in her virgin mary’s) 

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“If photography is about anything it is the deep surprise of living in the ordinary world. By virtue of walking through the fields and streets of this planet, focusing on the small and the unexpected, conferring attention on the helter-skelter juxtapositions of time and space, the photographer reminds us that the actual world is full of surprise, which is precisely that most people, imprisoned in habit and devoted to the familiar, tend to forget.” –John Rosenthal – “Design as Meaning: An Artist’s View of His World and His Art.”

And: Been away from the computer and the cameras; haven’t added an entry to this blog in almost three weeks. Why not? Well, I’ve been painting walls and laying parquet floors one 3/4″ X 5/16″ oak board at a time. The return to wood, planes, rasps and the Japanese saw was a pleasure which left the body hurting from lack of practice.

Brett Favre fusion jerseys

“Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.” — Minor White

You’ve probably heard that Brett Favre (4) has moved from our Green Bay Packers to the (green) Jets. At our Sunday brunch this noon, as the Packers played, and ultimately tamed the Lions 48 -25, we were treated to a Favre fan who wore a “fusion” jersey.

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