Sometimes we spend time with friends or family
and it feels like we’ve watched ‘this movie’ several times already.
Other times it feels like a more precious sharing of time and ideas.
What makes one feel like saying, “I’ve missed you.”
“I enjoy your wit and humor.”
Rich and I met over coffee at Fiddleheads.
We shared thoughts on aging, memory, family, photography, electron microscopes, brains, consciousness, meditation, blogs, facebook and social media and probably more.
It had been a long time since we just “talked” about subjects that didn’t relate to Rich’s business, photoshop, lightroom and website.
it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
As Rich and I exchanged thoughts
I gazed over Rich’s left shoulder to see
others exchanged kisses.
Henri Cartier-Bresson allegedly said,
“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
and
“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”
All of a sudden, I realized my favorite lens, the 50 mm Summilux Asph
was front focusing, considerably, on my M8.
Damn. And the 28 too? Double Damn
I’m feeling so bourgeois as I fret over adjusting my rangefinder and consider sending my kit off to Leica for CLA.
I much prefer myself in black and white (and in focus). I wish I could be that way in three dimensions. I have been staring long and intently at this image and the deeper I go, the more I feel I am looking at the real me in a random moment in time. I like it very much.