{"id":582,"date":"2008-11-19T18:07:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2010-07-24T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:01:10","slug":"a-closer-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Looking closer to find the portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Like doctors, photographers work with what is present. I suspect our chief emotions are anticipation, frustration, and patience, balanced by a marvelous sense of elation when things go right \u2014 when we think we&#8217;ve captured within a photograph some missing feeling, some sense of beauty, or bit of mystery in the fabric of life.&#8221; \u2014 <em>John Loengard<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sunday brunch at the Centennial. Watching Ann&#8217;s son and his partner as they listen to Ann speak (don&#8217;t remember what about, because now I look rather than listen). Not famous people. They probably won&#8217;t even like the photograph. No amazing action. Yet, they&#8217;re young and lovely in this window light.\u00a0A\u00a028mm Summicron on the M8.\u00a0I slice\u00a0one forty fifth of a second\u00a0and a small span of five feet out of\u00a0the infinite possibilities of space and time. Seemingly mundane. Then, examining the photograph on a computer screen, it seems that the parts equal more than their sum. That the individuals behind the eyes have nothing to do with one another. They seem to have more power, and beauty, when isolated. A closer look. Always looking. Closer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081116-l1003965-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-586 aligncenter\" title=\"20081116-l1003965-a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081116-l1003965-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081116-l1003965-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-587 aligncenter\" title=\"20081116-l1003965-b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081116-l1003965-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081116-l1003965.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-588 aligncenter\" title=\"20081116-l1003965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081116-l1003965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081116-l1003965-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-597 aligncenter\" title=\"20081116-l1003965-c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081116-l1003965-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Like doctors, photographers work with what is present. 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