“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 (click image for larger view)
Category: Documentary
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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“If I knew how to… “
“If I knew how to make a good photograph, I’d do it every time.” – Robert Doisneau.
“…an exercise in vigilance; the hope of noticing something which will make me understand more clearly what still resists being understood; what still lies obscured but at least now [is] glimpsed.” Dan Frank used these words to describe his role as an editor; in A Symposium on Editing, The Threepenny Review, Spring 2008.
These same words describe well the act of photography (when practiced with a degree of seriousness); photographers work in ways similar to editors.
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Catching a moment… passing… and true.
“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” – Jacques-Henri Lartigue
sometimes we are still
to catch that which passes by
sometimes we pass by
that which lies in stillness
suddenly all made
perfect sense; the jungle filled
with songs, sex, fights, flights…
care fully, slipping
within transparent designs
posing as true visions
Pictures as thoughts?
“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.” – Sir Joshua Reynolds
Oh dear; do your rooms have quality thoughts hanging about?
While waiting for my take-out Mu Shu Shrimp last evening I thought…
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then it occurred to me that…
and yet…
what do you think?
David and me; planning a shoot; and St. Patrick’s Day preparation
writers (don’t) meet up
David hosts the party for
he and i – just fine
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planning the easter sunday shoot with Ellie and Sean – testing a new light modifier – pleased
St. Patrick needs cookies – don’t you know?
Feel without thoughts
feel without thoughts
let go of irrelevance
see within being
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’tis natural to evaporate
and so I will
science, religion and art
science seeks knowing us
religion seeks saving us
art seeks communicating with us
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put head, eye, and heart on the same axis
To take photographs means to recognize both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis. — H. C. Bresson
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A pow wow
a tiny infant
absorbs the pulse and songs of
a thousand generations
For a bit of context you can view a slide show of additional Pow Wow photographs made on Sunday, March 2, 2008, at the State Fair Grounds in Milwaukee, WI.