When a photographer sits down with a cup of coffee, and sees light, lines, forms and tones come together in harmony with the focal length of the lens on the camera, and distance from the subject, it’s awfully difficult not to raise the courage and the camera to capture the image. (click images for larger […]
Category Archives: Hand Made: Art and Craft
Visitor at the front door
We couldn’t hear his knock. The crane fly simply clung to the window waiting for me to notice that he had interest in a portrait session. After a few shots I took the SD card to the computer to review the proofs. When I returned (for possible reshoots) the visitor had vanished; leaving no forwarding […]
Happy friday flower
(click image for larger view) M8, 135 Elmar on Visoflex
Riding blind and loving it
This morning my friend, Kevin Meyers, competed in the Double Bong 40k, ABR Wisconsin State Time Trial Championship, Kansasville, WI. Kevin lost his sight in 1987 when his racing boat hit a wake at 60 mph, threw him into the water, where he was hit by another boat. Lucky to be alive; and living to the […]
The occasional (seasonal) friday flower
Feeling the season change. Most of the blooms around the house have dried up. Leaves turning toward yellow. Seems like we have only wild ones left. (click image for larger view) Leica M8, 65 Elmar on Visoflex III
Miksang and flow
In an eMail Alan Magayne-Roshak said of my August 24th blog post, “I love it. It’s easy to get lost in it (in a good way). This reminds me of a David Vestal column where he quoted Picasso as saying, “I don’t seek, I find.” ( The column is at home; I hope I got it […]
Searching for the never before seen (in this way)
We look at so many photographs on the web, on the backs of our little digicams or phones and in print. Some minimal fraction of those images surprise us because the photographer has shown us a subject we’ve never seen before; or shown us a familiar subject in some unfamiliar way; or has managed to harmoniously […]
The Occasional Friday Flower
(click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit
Refreshing our Point of View
Ann and I have a tradition of not working on our birthday. The BD person chooses where and how we will spend the day. Ann chose Mauthe Lake as one of several destinations for her birthday. Knowing we’d have a few hours of leisure I packed up rarely used M gear including: the Visoflex with both […]
This small world traveler seeks surprises
The macro (and even micro) world attracts my attention (again and again); wanting to get ever closer; seeking to discover forms, shapes and lines which my naked human eye fails to appreciate. The constant struggle to achieve both depth and visual poetry simultaneously frustrates and seduces the optical explorer of the world; whether one travels […]