“If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say ‘secrets.’ As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was A Secret Garden.” — Joyce Tenneson (click images for larger view) Each time the shutter clicks I’ve always had that feeling; as […]
Category Archives: Photography
Trick (or treat) 08
“In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.” – Clarence John Laughlin (click images for larger view) Click this link for a slide show of additional photographs from […]
A photograph is not what is photographed
“…the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it’s something else.” — Garry Winogrand My good friends at the Leica User Group have created a tradition called Friday flowers. I offer these in the spirit of that tradition. The blue flowers […]
The great lake Michigan and sculptural gates
“Adopt the pace of Nature; her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (click images for larger view) A week or so ago I had the opportunity to return to a subject I’d photographed last spring. This gate, created by Dan Nauman, fits so well into its environment that photographing it becomes very difficult during daylight. […]
As fresh as food can be
this morning on the porch a tomato the moment before biting into it tasting every bit as good as it looked
Lasting impressions
What does it take to leave a lasting impression in this noisy world of excessive and often false hype? Some few man made objects possess qualities which cause the objects to remain useful and/or admired for their aesthetic appeal. I have 60 year old cameras which still produce stunning images. The camera manufacturers designed and […]
Poetry, Pictures ‘n Politics
Headline about sums up my life. Forty (or so) years ago poet Philip Whalen wrote: Our main difficulty: fear and distrust of freedom In America we’ve been fighting each other 100 years We pretend we’re unimaginably rich But we’re poor and afraid of the poor who must become The Army to defend us against right […]
event: you ally — yesterday
yesterday my 62nd year ended today my 63rd begins the day before yesterday I found this fellow, and song eventually
Out and about with Bert and camera
“Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn’t make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel.” — Peter Adams (click photos for larger view) yesterday afternoon, lunch with Bert Stitt then a walk about the “east side” looking and a drive to see Sophia
Nathaniel Reinartz’a new metal work
“It is discomforting to know that if only Beauty could be found then Beauty would cease to exist.” — Dominic Rouse “A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” — John Keats Yesterday provided an opportunity to photograph and add to the portfolio of Nathaniel Reinartz. […]