Category Archives: Photography

friday’s frozen kisses

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 […]

the chase

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 […]

Sophia-days = grand Wednesdays

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

sometimes one plus one equals one

father plus son “Are we not like two volumes of one book?” — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore They appeared to enjoy a perfect father/son afternoon in the park. Each – both speaking and listening. Followed by throwing the football in the open field. Apparently exercising both minds and bodies. I felt envious and missed my father (click […]

Milwaukee river meditations

“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

the beauty in failing

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 […]

Last week visualized

(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 […]

aware, motivated, yearning, reaching

“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 […]