listen to warm
thaw watching egos dissolving
into a sea of compassion
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Category: Daily thoughts
Just thinking, contemplating, considering
Light, always the light. Sometimes the time.
“A painter works with color as the medium, a photographer works with light.” – Carlotta M. Corpron
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and time — the photographer works with light and/or time
Last Sunday Ann’s son, Josh, brought Clyde over for a visit.
The seeing eye
Last evening I read from “Imogen Cunningham, Ideas without end” by Richard Lorenz; and again just before going to lunch with my friend, David White. These readings, and looking at her photographs, inspired me to write in my journal, “…intend to see more and deeper.”
“You have to have it in you first, you don’t learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.” — Imogen Cunningham, Dialogue With Photography by Paul Hill , ISBN: 0948797665
The two photographs made at the restaurant had nothing to do with lunch, or David, or our various discussions on business, or mindfulness (well maybe that). Yet these images will set well, in my memory, this lunch as an honor to Imogen Cunningham; even though David and I never spoke her name; or discussed her extraordinary photographs. (click on images for larger view)
Time slice and tear
melting away
under the hand of time
a tear
no longer able to distinguish
between
joy and sorrow
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Photography is not… or what is photography?
“Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances is it anything ever anywhere near a beach.” – Walker Evans – American Photography, 1984, 23 – 24. [“EW:100 – Centennial Essays in Honor of Edward Weston”, “Carmel: Beneficial to Bohemia” p. 48, Untitled 41, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California 1986]
A basket full of goodies came as a Christmas gift. Now empty yet remaining on a kitchen counter; Cheech has claimed it as one his preferred places to rest.
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Inspiration: Morning. A new day. The first day of a new era. Waiting for Barack Obama to deliver his inaugural address.
“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but to inspire them?” — Bob Dylan
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what do you look at? why?
“I’m looking for things I’ve never seen before.” — Robert Mapplethorpe
“Constantly ask yourself, ‘what the heck would what I’m looking at look like framed, still, two-dimensional, in black and white?’ If the search for an answer gets your heart pumping, makes your throat dry and you become kind of gooey inside, it’s love. Don’t fight it. Take out that Leica M that you’re still paying off and start shooting.” — Mason Resnick
“my window” — George Lottermoser
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auld lang syne
times gone by
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and those to come
NOW
between history and mystery
may the New Year — 2009 — bring
a shift in consciousness, however subtle, toward
non-violent, genuine communication
and compassionate understanding
Images held within us
“You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are moved by something which is in agreement with an image you already held within yourself.” — Frederick Sommer
yesterday:
attached the 400 mm f:6.8 Telyt
to the Visoflex and M8
for the first time
then took the kit for a brief walk
this — hand held, without shoulder stock or pod,
cropped from about a quarter of the M8’s full frame
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May your holiday be rich with friends and family
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