{"id":3685,"date":"2010-09-20T17:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2010-09-21T02:58:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T07:58:53","slug":"fallen-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=3685","title":{"rendered":"Fallen bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The morning of the anniversary of my birth I walked out onto the porch and noticed this tiny (30 mm) birthday cake.<\/p>\n

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Leica R8\/DMR, 15 mm Super Elmar<\/p>\n

The shamrock dropped a bloom on the rotting cedar. It appeared as both a beautiful object and appropriate seasonal event.\u00a0Attempting to capture, in a photograph, my thoughts and feelings upon encountering this tiny specimen proved elusive (as it so often does). The light changing by the minute. Which lens? How close? What’s the subject trying to say? Which point of view reveals the poem? Why can’t I find the message? These questions did not come consciously to mind; they rather occur non verbally while looking, focusing, moving, changing cameras and lenses, and points of view.<\/p>\n

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For me these transitional events, summer to fall, water becoming solid, aging, ice becoming liquid, hyper awareness of life in the process of change, hold magical potential; yet this idea seems difficult to express in a still photograph. 3 lenses, 2 cameras; and I don’t know if I’ve achieved anything near what I saw, thought or felt.<\/p>\n

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Leica M8, 65 mm Elmar on Visoflex<\/p>\n

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Leica R8\/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit<\/p>\n

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