ritual baking while passing…

 through time and space… and away / focus your heart-mind on a dearly departed friend / and his survivors /
as you mix 3 different flours with water, sourdough starter, salt and sugar / focus your heart-mind on memories of each of them /
as you stretch and letter fold the dough / first one way then ninety degrees the other way / every forty five minutes / for 3 hours /
remember / stretch / remember / fold / remember / fold / remember / turn / remember / stretch / remember / fold / remember / fold / remember / let it rest for 45 minutes / repeat / repeat / repeat
bake in all the memories, love and joy for this friend and his family /

this little loaf for me / a larger loaf to nourish those who sit shiva / our lives intersecting now and again over the decades /
then never again… / passed away they say / leaving only these memories / these breads / these words / these photographs

And another also departed this past week / leaving different trails of intersections / of memories / of joys and sorrows

Leica M6, 50 mm Noctilux

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Smart Gallery and Privacy

As a participating member of The smART Gallery on Facebook…
and the current theme of “Privacy”
I submitted:

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From the Mobile Camera Club Web Site:
The undisciplined granddaughter of traditional photography, mobile photography, made with a smartphone, celebrates the rise of a new generation of digital artists and the era of photography 3.0. Amid the flood of amateur snapshots captured on the go and posted on social networks, there is gradually emerging a truly creative artistic movement, which is inventing a new photographic language. Its thirst for experimentation and freedom and its unorthodox ways are shaking up artistic dogmas and aesthetic boundaries. Mobile Camera Club offers a real place for expression to this silent and virtual revolution.
See Mobile Camera Club . FR
for additional information

The science of bread

Last week I spent some time researching “hydration” of bread dough.
This morning I decided to apply, with some precision, the concepts I read about.
The result — exactly as intended — a perfect loaf with a perfect crumb.
After 4 years of baking a bread every 3 – 4 days — nurturing a sourdough starter since March of 2012
— today felt like a day of revelation.

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