“…I can’t recreate my feelings about how I happened to do this or that, because a lot of my stuff was done without any motivation, more than just what I call having a good time fooling around.” – Imogen Cunningham
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Category: Things
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.
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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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
Thank you very much
“I said back off dude, just back away, nice and slow, that’s right…
yeah, now we both have something to be thankful for.” — Wild Turkey (not the beverage)
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Our man won and fresh snow fell
“A good photograph can penetrate the subconscious – but only if it is allowed to speak for however much time it needs to get there.” — Ralph Gibson
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The first moment after MSNBC declared the first Irish-African-American winner of the 2008 presidential election.
first snow fell last night
this morning, cold, lovely and
new visions to catch
Trick (or treat) 08
“In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.” – Clarence John Laughlin
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A photograph is not what is photographed
“…the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it’s something else.” — Garry Winogrand
My good friends at the Leica User Group have created a tradition called Friday flowers. I offer these in the spirit of that tradition. The blue flowers are a mere 5mm in diameter. Both of these were photographed with a 20 – 30 year old 65 Elmar lens on an M8.
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Last week I walked to the mail box and found five of these walking about in my front yard. This one seemed to be saying, “dude – like back off!”
Fall has arrived and new forms and colors delight the eyes.
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The great lake Michigan and sculptural gates
“Adopt the pace of Nature; her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A week or so ago I had the opportunity to return to a subject I’d photographed last spring. This gate, created by Dan Nauman, fits so well into its environment that photographing it becomes very difficult during daylight. The natural surroundings seem to absorb the organic forms of the metal. We created these night photographs in an effort to separate the organic metal forms from their natural environment (for an upcoming magazine article). If you open and drive through this driveway gate you will arrive at the residence, above the great lake Michigan seen in the black and white photographs above.
