Based on a Leica M Bellows, disassembled, and carefully hacksawed, a Novoflex Castel Q focusing rail, 2 Chinese Rotating quick release clamps, and both Really Right Stuff and Chinese quick release plates. The device goes together and comes apart in a minute or two; and allows for swinging and shifting both lens and body, and […]
Category Archives: Self Expression
Art as Poetry / Poetry as Art: A Remarkably High Level of Poignant, Pertinent, and Profound
Art as Poetry / Poetry as Art, presented by the Lakeshore Artists Guild, and hosted by the Rahr-West Art Museum in Manitowoc, WI, May 14 — June18, 2023 did what I hope to each art experience does: gave me goosebumps and tears. Don’t miss this exhibition. I don’t remember when I fell in love with […]
“Phenomena of Being. Missing.”
…the working title of this recently completed encaustic painting. Though words seem to interfere with visual aesthetic experience: (click image for larger view) Encaustic paint, on stretched fabric, and RC silver print, ruined by flood. I found myself unable to throw away this particular scratched and ruined print, with the others which were laminated to […]
Lost in the Beauty Full Mysteries of Attraction
How many billions of leaves lay on the forest floor? I’m attracted to one of them. Why? I pick it up. Gingerly. It’s dry and fragile. I put it in my pocket. And hope that it does not turn to dust there. It joins other found objects brought home to ponder. Bones, bark, stones… attracted […]
No time like the present to yield to desire…
For reasons unknown I’ve wanted to creatively engage with a “bonsai tree” most of my adult life. I’ve been gifted with 2 or 3 over the decades. The little super market varieties. Pretty much destined to die. Sooner rather than later. I did manage to nurture a wonderful bonsai box elder which seeded itself in […]
Wandering & Wondering. Strolling. Sensing & Seeing. Looking & Listening. Documenting. Learning. Meeting & Marveling.
Mayapple, …in toxic ating… Woodland Dunes State Natural Area, Leica SL, Apo-Macro-Elmarit-R 100 / 1:2.8 + 2x Apo-Extender (click image for larger view)
Sometimes we find ourselves asking…
“Y” did I weep while watching the well produced Daisy Jones and The Six, E5, last evening, when one of the characters said, “…it was obvious that they made each other better; …until they didn’t”? “Y” did that line of dialogue strike me so personally? words on a screen? triggering such deep heartfelt emotions? “Y” […]
Been a Long Time Coming…
A whole lot of sand has poured through the hourglass of my life since last I posted here I’ve lost people, places and things over the past many years and now find myself alone Near the western shores of the Great Lake Michigan “home of the good spirit” In the days before settlement, our area […]
Following the call
I saw multiple reflections / in the shower / and followed the call to photograph them / only to find an apparition / I saw a fallen leaf / on the bathroom counter / and followed the call to photograph it / only to find a life-line within a canyon (click photograph for larger view) iPhone 6s
For Love of Papers…
…mine and others, bind it, fold it, make marks on it, with graphite, ink, typewriter ribbons, charcoal, water color, hot wax, call them poems, drawings, sketches, short stories, journals, memories reproduce them with intaglio, engravings, lithographs, etchings, photographs, …impressions, expressions, eye candy, communications, fold it, crumble it, tear it, cut it, punch it, wrap something up […]