(click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Author Archives: imagist
On Assignment (from Ted Grant): Motion
Hit play and enjoy the photographs (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph
The Milwaukee River… summer… simple, wet and muddy pleasures…
the roar of water falling providing altered states. with senses filling and flowing thoughtlessly within the river — with Sophia — George Lottermoser Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain (1835-1910) Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river […]
Walking Past the Same Point in Space… Twice… Nineteen Days Apart…
(click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph
Friday: Lily after the rain
(click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit
Japanese Beetle
After mowing the weeds, while sitting with a cup of coffee, I see this Japanese Beetle walking along my shirt. The claws made it difficult to pull off the fabric. With a little research I discover they’re known as “pests.” (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit
Friday: (black eyed) Susan and (day) Lily sunning
Do we name the flowers after women? or Do we name little girls after flowers? Which came first? The flower or the little girl blooming in the summer sun… (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 180 mm Apo Elmarit + 2x Apo Extender
Showing… explaining without words…
Elliott Erwitt allegedly said, “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” I really get this idea. Especially when, during a conversation, it becomes so apparent that our fellow conversant does not understand our words; or we theirs. I suppose all the arts, other than poetry and […]
More on the subjects of structure, form, texture, soul and green:
(click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 180 mm Apo Elmarit + 2X Apo Extender
form = the soul of what we see
Ted Grant said, “When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls.” Many have debated the veracity of Ted’s opinion. What does soul mean to the reader of the quote; and/or the viewer of a black and white, or color, photograph? Depends […]