times gone by (click images for larger view) and those to come NOW between history and mystery may the New Year — 2009 — bring a shift in consciousness, however subtle, toward non-violent, genuine communication and compassionate understanding
Category Archives: Photography
Images held within us
“You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are moved by something which is in agreement with an image you already held within yourself.” — Frederick Sommer yesterday: attached the 400 mm f:6.8 Telyt to the Visoflex and M8 for the […]
Christmas = Children singing
“Adventure is not only measured in kilometers. Strong emotions are not only found in front of the Parthenon. Emotion, if you are worthy of it, will be felt before the smile of a child returning home with his school books, a tulip in a vase touched by a ray of sunlight, or the face of […]
do you have the time?
unable to find it where did the time go? often killing it thoughtlessly stalking answers to questions sans reason killing and eating time will tell or fly really? perhaps if I’d saved some or spent less if you have a minute share it well The above poem floated around in my mind for a long time. […]
“buzz” in world all a twitter
“…the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private.” – Roland Barthes, 1980 (click images for larger view) So I opened my virtual eyes/ears to the twittering world; the virtual equivalent to […]
Thank you very much
“I said back off dude, just back away, nice and slow, that’s right… yeah, now we both have something to be thankful for.” — Wild Turkey (not the beverage) (click image for larger view)
Good morning winter
“I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you’re curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you’re likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.” – Elliott Erwitt home with camera and shovel (click image for larger […]
Looking closer to find the portrait
“Like doctors, photographers work with what is present. I suspect our chief emotions are anticipation, frustration, and patience, balanced by a marvelous sense of elation when things go right — when we think we’ve captured within a photograph some missing feeling, some sense of beauty, or bit of mystery in the fabric of life.” — […]
Our man won and fresh snow fell
“A good photograph can penetrate the subconscious – but only if it is allowed to speak for however much time it needs to get there.” — Ralph Gibson (click images for larger view) The first moment after MSNBC declared the first Irish-African-American winner of the 2008 presidential election. first snow fell last night this morning, cold, […]
Grant Park — 40 Years Apart
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, Grant Park, Chicago Illinois: 70,000 ticketed guests, with who knows how many additional participants, gathered to listen to President-elect Barack Obama; elected just minutes before. This group of hundreds of thousands of young and old, rich and poor, of all colors, genders, and ethnicities gathered to hear our first Irish-African-American President inspire […]