“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind”

returning (always) to the study of wabi sabi wherein the student perceives beauty in the ephemeral, transient, isolated, simple, subdued tranquil, natural, intimate, eternal, melancholic, asymmetrical, earthy, organic, rough, uneven, asperities, spacious, humble, sober, intangible yearning, impermanent, passage of time… (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

Contemplate the cycles and seasons of life

snow will soon cover the paths walked with Sophia and ice the river from which this mandala emerged her fourth fall my sixty third (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

My old Hasselblad 500CM enters the digital age (for a few minutes)

Since the release of the Hasselblad CFV 39 back I’ve wondered how it would feel and function. Yesterday Steve Goldsmith, from Calumet, kindly drove 2/3rds of the way, through rain and beastly road construction traffic. A big thank you goes out to Steve. We met in Racine and put the back on my old CM and made […]

Friday’s flower (for Martin Howard)

overcast today, gray, damp, cool, few flowers left, leaves turning on trees shamrock seems sad [family Leguminosae, in particular the lesser yellow trefoil (Trifolium minus)] (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit

Sunday — Global Union 2009: music, dogs, children, dancing

Alverno College kicked off its 50th annual Alverno Presents season with Global Union 2009 at Humboldt Park this past weekend. Always a wonderful time and place to enjoy people, music, children, dogs and dancing (additonal images in slideshow). (click image for larger view) (Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron)