Hand Made: Art and Craft – Page 56

first spring blooms

the yard begins
to show signs of spring

Leicar R8/DMR, 100 mm Macro Apo

porch and pole sitting in Door County

A week ago (before “the tourist season” begins) we drove up the west coast of the great Lake Michigan to Door County. Historically (and here) the area has been inhabited for 11,000 years. Pioneers, mariners, fishermen and farmers began arriving in the 1700s; and the Native American population was removed, under federal law, in 1830. One rarely sees people of color in this now relatively upscale tourist area serving many Chicago vacationers.

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Leica M8, 35 mm Summilux Asph

exhaustion after a rough night

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the bunny appears to drive a chevy

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Leica M8, 35 mm Summilux Asph

within my granddaughter’s orbit

“…we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights… That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.
If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.“ — Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” — David Alan Harvey

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Leica M8, 28mm Summicron

forms fro zen

rock, sand, here and now
covered, they continue
to express their form

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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit

friday’s frozen kisses

0 degrees Fahrenheit

“Photography is about sustaining a creative continuum until you create a visual orgasm, suspended in Time for eternal ecstasy. What you see forever may only occur for a fraction of a second and only occurs once. I have tried to re-create photographs – you can’t. Better or worse, yes – but the same, no! Nothing in this Life is ever the same twice. You might THINK it is, but you just aren’t looking closely enough.” — James Elliott, from his essay on Kiss On Frosted Glass

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Leica R8/DMR, 100 Apo Macro Elmarit

the chase

we all chase something
choosing what, when and where to chase
makes all difference

May we chase and capture that which makes a positive difference in the world in 2010.

“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it.” — Edward Weston

“This is where the artist comes in, arranging in a frame the scattered elements into a story, anticipating and chasing the light, bringing it all together to create an evocative image capable of communicating the visual experience… . — Guy Tal

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