“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” — Alfred Steiglitz
Last Saturday Sophia, family and friends celebrated her third birthday. Slide show of additional images.
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And on Monday we remembered Mom and Dad, together. Slide show of additional images.
Huge thank you Doug. You’ve twice given me and my family precious memories.
“If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.” — Lord Snowdon
(Grand) Father’s Day brunch – 08 – lucky me.
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“Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.” — Margaret Bourke-White
Last evening the storms roared through (again).
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The rain poured down most of the night – leaving our little town’s main street underwater (and the upstream water has yet to crest). Click here for slide show of Thiensville Flood.
A visit with Sophia and Tanya this morning.
On the way home.
“It’s about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.” — Elliot Erwitt
May 28th brought my niece, Libby, to Milwaukee for lunch and to pick out clothing which no longer fit Sophia. She seems to be counting her new outfits.
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My nephew, Erickson also attended the lunch (as did their mother Mandy and my sister, Donna).
This past weekend Tanya and Sophia participated in the neighborhood rummage sale.
Sophia had to take a last ride on a too small toy.
and added a title or two to her library.
We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us. — Ralph Hattersley
Dad’s tool box: A gift from his father upon dad’s completion of his apprenticeship as a tool and die maker. My grandfather, a cabinet maker, built the bottom, four drawer unit for his son. My grandfather only owned one “power” tool, a small six inch table saw. The table is less than 14″ square, sitting on a box which contains a simple blade on an axle with a belt pulley.
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“A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.” — Sam Abell, Seeing and Shooting Straight
Sunday morning:
cold wind bites the skin
even as the sun melts fresh snow
spring appears unsure
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the birthday party – delightful
“Light is the shape and play of my thought… my reason for being a photographer.” — Barbara Morgan
My niece, Ellie, asked me to make photographs of she and her fiance, Sean, on Easter Sunday. She had long kept the idea of creating facsimiles for photographs I made of her parents some 39 years earlier. The rest of their series can be seen here.
And of course as long as we’re set up we also involved my granddaughter, Sophia, daughter, Tanya and son in law, Jerome. With more from their session here.
And of course my other niece, Mandy, and her husband, Greg, their son, Erickson and his new little sister, Libby. With additional possibilities here.
And of course there’s my sister, Donna, and brother-in-law, Ray, reenacting that day back in 1969; and their other possibilities here.
And my sweetheart, Ann – before striking the set.
“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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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
St. Patrick needs cookies – don’t you know?
“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
