Last week I stopped at Virmond Park to get my weekly dose of the Great Lake Michigan. There on the bluff I watched a young man attempt to fly a trick kite. The kite had two lines and some serious rigging under it.
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He tried over and over again to create or catch a breeze; just couldn’t get it in the air. A young woman appeared walking out of the trees. And they worked together; yet could not gain flight.
Leica M8, 28mm Summicron
Alverno College kicked off its 50th annual Alverno Presents season with Global Union 2009 at Humboldt Park this past weekend. Always a wonderful time and place to enjoy people, music, children, dogs and dancing (additonal images in slideshow).
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(Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron)
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Leica M8, 28 mm Summicaron
Waiting in front of her school
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after stopping at the hardware store and replacing a dowel in the kite
the surf, shells and stones held more interest than the kite
we traded off winding the kite in
the gulls fighting over flying bread
made us hungry for chocolate malts and french fries
back at the house Sophia fished for cats with a shoe string
All images Leica M8 with 28 mm Summicron, except last (Sophia fishing for cats) with Leica R8/DMR with 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit
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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit on R Bellows
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Icky waits. I know not for what.
I wait at the clinic; eye on the door; hoping for the best possible outcome.
Dan Nauman of Bighorn Forge continues to bring new forms to his hand wrought home furnishings.
“There is no substitute for feeling the stone, the metal, the plaster, or the wood in the hand; to feel its weight; to feel its texture; to struggle with it in the world rather than in the mind alone.” — William M. Dupree
“The artist is a man [or woman] who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.” —Graham Collier
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(Slide show of additional views of this table)
Last week I had the privilege of meeting Mark and Sylvia Mondloch of Silver Creek Pottery & Forge. After exchanging a few emails, and a phone call, with Mark, we met at my studio to photograph some of Mark’s fine metal work.
Fireplace Tool Set (detail) by Mark Mondloch
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(Slide show of additional views of this Tool Set)
Garden Accents by Mark Mondloch
While the neutral formica sweep worked well for the Tool Set. I felt it appeared a bit sterile for the the flowers. Mark and Sylvia made a trip to Stein’s Garden Center and found some mulch and moss; which I believe was just enough to give the Garden accents a little context.
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(Slide show of additional views of these Garden Accents)
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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit, apo 2x
“I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.” — Wynn Bullock
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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit with apo2x
“The medium of photography can record not only what the eyes see, but that which the mind’s eye sees as well. The camera is not only an extension of the eye, but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye, visible.
My pictures are never pre-visialized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or rejetct the results of my work.
I feel the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can’t go out and logically plan a picture, but when you come back, reason then takes over and verifies or rejects whatever you’ve done.” — Wynn Bullock