Category: People

2010 ABANA Conference, Memphis, TN

Last Tuesday Seth Tyler and I drove to Memphis for the 2010 ABANA Conference. Seth, besides creating very impressive metal work (both sculptural and functional), turned out to be the best studio assistant I’ve ever worked with.

We photographed about 120 hand wrought metal pieces, ranging in size from virtual jewelry, to pieces 7 feet on the long dimension; in three extremely intense days. Additionally I delivered two 2 hour seminars on how the blacksmiths can improve their own photography. The photograph below shows me working with a shelf bracket on the small sweep. Just to the left we also had a 9 foot sweep.

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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

porch and pole sitting in Door County

A week ago (before “the tourist season” begins) we drove up the west coast of the great Lake Michigan to Door County.  Historically (and here) the area has been inhabited for 11,000 years. Pioneers, mariners, fishermen and farmers began arriving in the 1700s; and the Native American population was removed, under federal law, in 1830. One rarely sees people of color in this now relatively upscale tourist area serving many Chicago vacationers.

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Leica M8, 35 mm Summilux Asph

within my granddaughter’s orbit

“…we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights… That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.
If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.“ — Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” — David Alan Harvey

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Leica M8, 28mm Summicron

Sophia-days = grand Wednesdays

grand pa and grand child
duets with me on guitar
and she on harmonica

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hiking to observation towers

developing the habit of sharing a chocolate malt
between pinball and bowling games

or just talking around the kitchen table

always delightful time
well spent

Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron