Natural World – Page 44

Take the time. Put your soul in the photograph.

“There’s no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.” — Ruth Bernhard

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It all seems so fragile

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy

thursday morning she
flew into the window and
ann loved her alive

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a walk through the play ground

continuing to learn the Ultima now with 90mm Apo-Rodagon and R8/DMR

Leica M8, Visoflex III plus Cambo Ultima

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” — Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: A biography by Patricia Bosworth

access ability
pursuit of happiness
social justice. enigmas

For the last month I’ve been moving my office into my home. Remodeling a bathroom and building a custom version of the Cambo Ultima 35 from an Ultima 4×5 (seen below with M8 and Visoflex III; also able to mount R8/DMR, and 5D with a simple Really Right Stuff quick release). Since going digital I’ve missed the precision of the view camera camera movements to control framing, focus, etc. Now I have achieved the ultimate optical bench. Sweet.

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Below: three images made with M8 and 180mm Nikkor-W.

…the creatures …each a gift …radiant energy

“The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations — each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. …Light is my inspiration… …profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. …the energy upon which all life on this planet depends. …Today is the day!” — Ruth Bernhard

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Herring Gull

Canada Goose

Awareness creates depth of experience.

“I thought I made a mistake once but it turned out it was a creative moment.” — Scott Fleming

Have you ever approached your lover, intending a kiss good bye, then felt a warm breeze flow from their face to your own? Not speaking of breath here; rather an in-the-moment-hyper-awareness of the 98.6 degree F, 37 degree C, body temperature slowly flowing from loved one toward self. I did. This morning. Lovely.

Happens all the time.
Appreciating it does not.
Then spring arrived.

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difficult to hold

(click images for larger views) Yellow-rumped Warbler (probably Myrtle type)

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Downy Woodpecker

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle type)

words bouncing off visions

“I trust pictures, but no pictures in my world – because I know what goes on.” — Naomi Campbell

So, sitting in the kitchen, reading The Nation, or rather articles within, which refer to the life, times and work of Roberto Bolaño, who said, “Then what is writing of quality? Well, what it’s always been: to know how to thrust your head into the darkness, know how to leap into the void, and to understand that literature is basically a dangerous calling.” among other groups of words, mostly in variations of Spanish.

this spring visioning
implores me to discover
infrarealist

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while discovering
a new light always springing
within my world view

To photograph = to see

“In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.” — Emile Zola

still feeling spring’s chill

morning provides designs which

tantalize the eye

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Spring arrives along with 6″-8″ of snow

“When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.” – Minor White

Second day of spring arrives in Mequon with a prediction of 6 – 10 inches of snow. At 11:00 am I point the camera out my office door to document the arrival of spring.

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