The camera didn’t come out during last Tuesday’s all day drive down Hwy 51 until sunset in Kentucky.
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Category: Natural World
the Box Elder(ly)
that old Box Elder
always changing, losing
offering so much visual pleasure
not much time left
I’ll miss it
like an old friend
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Leica M8, 50mm Summilux Asph
perpetual examination, inquiry, looking into…
“Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation – everything except a stage set.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson
“When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.” — Minor White
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Leica M8, 35mm Summilux Asph
kids and dogs
“A well-composed image will catch our attention because the eye finds a certain satisfaction in composure. But that is not enough. Good photographs are also disturbing, and inevitably remind us of what we have overlooked.” – John Rosenthal
Do you find these photographs disturbing; do they remind you?
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Leica M8, 35mm Summilux Asph
plum tree announces the true arrival of spring
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Leica M8, 35mm Summilux Asph
35 mm lux asph boquet
finally
we can take off our shoes
and feel the earth between our toes
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Leica M8, 35 mm Summilux Asph
first spring blooms
the yard begins
to show signs of spring
Leicar R8/DMR, 100 mm Macro Apo
forms fro zen
rock, sand, here and now
covered, they continue
to express their form
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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit
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