temperatures sway
between solid and liquid
to and fro
zen
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Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph
Category: Natural World
Three things I love SEEING…
together…
Something living and growing.
Something full of the potential to live and grow.
Raw material which can become something entirely new.
These three objects sit on my desk.
Diffused light falls across them
from a large window, north facing, with a white fabric shade.
They beg to be photographed, arranged, drawn, seen, appreciated.
Though that seems to be true of everything, everyone, and everyplace.
When one loves seeing.
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Hasselblad 500 CM / CF-39 with Carl Zeiss 135 mm S-Planar on Auto Bellows
Friday’s flora…
the only growing, green thing
I could find…
well… actually… simply the first that caught my eye
It took 5 attempts…
and an hour and a half…
to capture the feelings…
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though I’m not sure one can appreciate the feel of things
without looking extremely close…
It often seems I cannot “get close enough”
to feel the full beauty of life before me.
Hasselblad 500 CM/CF-39, 135 mm Carl Zeiss S Planar on Auto Bellows
Monday morning weather forms…
wind sculpted snow
between our cars
weather woman says,
“6 degrees; wind chill feels like -7 degrees”
frosting our windows
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Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph
Hasselblad 500 CM / CF-39, 135 mm Carl Zeiss S Planar
Winter light
brings with it
a moodiness to the contemplatives
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Hasselblad 500 CM / CF39, 135 mm S Planar on Auto Bellows
Leica M, 28 mm Summicron Asph
Friday’s flora
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Hasselblad 500cm/CF-39, 135 mm S Planar on Auto Bellows
Friday: falling on final flowers…
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Leica M, 50 mm Summilux Asph with extension tube
Friday: the hanging basket teaches…
both
the joy of blooming…
and the lesson of transitioning
through the seasons
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Leica M, 28 mm Summicron Asph (with extension tube)
Why photograph? Why use black and white? Why use color?
We photograph to explore our fascination with reality and all its remarkable, fleeting moments. …because we love light. …to discover how the moment may look when frozen in time. We photograph to remember. To tell a story. To illustrate. To explain. To say, “Look what I saw.” To learn more about “this or that.” To share. To show—as proof. We’re fascinated by, and need to explore, visual compositions as a means of self expression. …music for the eyes …visual poems.
We use black and white when we feel a need to express our love for lines, textures, patterns, shapes, and forms drawn by shadows and highlights. …when our vision demands a rich tonality.…when color would only serve as a distraction. The same reasons we draw with graphite, silver point, charcoal, conté and inks.
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Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph
We use color when the subject demands its color be seen, understood, and presented; and of course the light; always the light; along with the shapes, lines, patterns, textures, as we pass through each ephemeral moment of our life. The same reasons we reach for any other pigmented medium; whether paints, colored pencils, dyes, or pastel chalks. Because we have something to say about the color we see in the world.
Leica M, 28 mm Summicron Asph
Friday’s flowers: The errant snapdragon seed…
… found a sweet spot
in which to thrive;
with gratitude
to warmth, rain, and light
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then beaten (last night)
by wind driven sand
as fall delivered its first bitter cold
Found within.
Filled with bone
dry flowers and memories;
in dusty frames;
the cedar chest left little space
for future’s fresh mementos.
Leica M Monochrom, 15 mm Voigtlander Super Wide-Heliar Aspherical & 65 mm Elmar on Visoflex