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Category Archives: Daily thoughts
Revisiting underused lenses in the collection
Last evening I found myself organizing the many “macro” options I’ve managed to collect. A Leitz Wetzlar 160/-4/0.10 Microscope Lens among them. I’ve not mounted this lens to a camera for quite some time. At least a decade. Maybe more. It renders beautiful images with a lovely glow. This morning I mounted it to the […]
Joey O’Connor, musician, singer, performer, delivered joy to our world; last evening… @ Stage Door Pub, Manitowoc, WI 230729
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Find myself in the mood for contemplating and completing “forms in space” this past week.
“Wounded” / 13″ x 5.5″ x 8″ / Mahogany on Walnut Base (nearing completion) (click images for larger views) “Getting to Know You” / 22″ x 13″ x 13″ / Box Elder, Alabaster, on Mahogany Base (nearing completion) And finally… driven to draw the similarities of forms in ocean waves, flowers and the human body… […]
Infrared Meditation on Manitowoc River Flowing into Great Lake Michigan : for the Global Earth Exchange 2023: Speak Grief, Speak Beauty
To participate in the Global Earth Exchange, you make an offering of beauty “somewhere.” I chose “home town” as somewhere. And chose the slightly extraordinary infrared wave length to graphically render my experience. “In the days before settlement, our area was named Manitowoc by the Native Americans who called this area their home. Manitowoc, meaning […]
A Thought formed into an Encaustic Painting. Then Turned into an Abstraction. Neither ‘Seen’ nor Photographed ’till 3 Days Later.
“this thought” came to mind when I picked up the birch bark shed in a woods. I painted the thought with pigment, suspended in hot bee’s wax (encaustic) on Monday, 6/12/23. (click images for larger view)Later that afternoon a fellow artist, whom I respect, suggested I present it with a 90 degree turn:This morning 6/15/23, […]
“Remember when…” (before the grab a selfie) there was the Portrait Sitting/Study
“was a time…” when a subject came to the large, studio portrait camera for a “portrait sitting” with the photographer and camera; or before the easel of the painter. Those 8×10 or 5×7 film cameras had “swing;” which allowed the film plane, lens plane, and the plane of the subject’s face, to maintain focus of […]
Art, Photography, Poetry, Dance, Music… Why?
To Understand. To Know. To Express… something about the sumptuous mysteries we find ourselves immersed in. To compassionately come to know leads to loving… then losing… I immediately saw this little tulip as delicate and weak. It stood tall for its first few days. Then. Gradually. Slumped. Lay its head on the ground. Lived there. […]
Memorial Day. An Enigmatic Paradox (for me)
The day of heart breaking, enigmatic paradox… when I try to figure out how to honor “the ultimate sacrifice” AND HOW TO honor “the STOP THE BEASTS” and their ferocious feeding frenzies In Honor I document my walk through Red Arrow Park, Manitowoc, WI AND in Honor of my life, lived as an Anti-War Activist, […]
After years of tinkering, finally, yesterday, I, more or less, perfected the prototype, swing/shift/tilt, platform for digital, mirrorless bodies
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 […]