Category: Self Expression

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

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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Leica R8/DMR, 100mm Apo Macro Elmarit

Sophia-days = grand Wednesdays

grand pa and grand child
duets with me on guitar
and she on harmonica

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hiking to observation towers

developing the habit of sharing a chocolate malt
between pinball and bowling games

or just talking around the kitchen table

always delightful time
well spent

Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron

sometimes one plus one equals one

father plus son

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”
— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

They appeared to enjoy a perfect father/son afternoon in the park.
Each – both speaking and listening.
Followed by throwing the football in the open field.
Apparently exercising both minds and bodies.
I felt envious
and missed my father

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Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt

Milwaukee river meditations

“In good writing, words become one with things.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

perhaps also in good photography
the image becomes one
with the subject
as well as
the moment

for the moment I think so

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Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt