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Meeting of minds.

by imagist on November 4, 2013

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.

Paul Caponigro challenged us with, “It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like,
it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
Alfred Stieglitz claimed, “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
(of course you can click on the photograph for a larger view)

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.

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Rich November 4, 2013 at 12:42 pm

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.

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