“If I knew how to… “

“If I knew how to make a good photograph, I’d do it every time.” – Robert Doisneau.

“…an exercise in vigilance; the hope of noticing something which will make me understand more clearly what still resists being understood; what still lies obscured but at least now [is] glimpsed.” Dan Frank used these words to describe his role as an editor; in A Symposium on Editing, The Threepenny Review, Spring 2008.

These same words describe well the act of photography (when practiced with a degree of seriousness); photographers work in ways similar to editors.

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Catching a moment… passing… and true.

“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” – Jacques-Henri Lartigue

sometimes we are still
to catch that which passes by

sometimes we pass by
that which lies in stillness

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suddenly all made
perfect sense; the jungle filled
with songs, sex, fights, flights…

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care fully, slipping
within transparent designs
posing as true visions

Pictures as thoughts?

“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.” – Sir Joshua Reynolds

Oh dear; do your rooms have quality thoughts hanging about?
While waiting for my take-out Mu Shu Shrimp last evening I thought…

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then it occurred to me that…

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and yet…

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what do you think?

David and me; planning a shoot; and St. Patrick’s Day preparation

writers (don’t) meet up
David hosts the party for
he and i – just fine

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planning the easter sunday shoot with Ellie and Sean – testing a new light modifier – pleased

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St. Patrick needs cookies – don’t you know?

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put head, eye, and heart on the same axis

To take photographs means to recognize both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis. — H. C. Bresson

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The deliciousness of this or that moment

“Expression to my way of thinking does not consist of the passion mirrored upon a human face or betrayed by violent gesture. The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.” — Matisse

Then, from the kitchen in my brain, came, “like poets – photographers cook visual lyrics; a dash of content; proper ratio and proportion of all the ingredients; maintain a sense of spontaneity;  always some emotional spice; and like every good cook – just knowing – the deliciousness of this or that instant.”

daughter, granddaughter

lunch within Casablanca

delightful timeshare

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