What do people, places and things look like – photographed?

I’m always amazed when people look at photographs of themselves and say things like, “I look old and fat…” or “I look awful…” I look at the same photograph and think, “I’ve managed to capture your beauty.” It makes me wonder what they see in the mirror. Garry Winogrand said, “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.” It would seem that many people do not want to know what they “look like.” Every now and again, mostly while checking the light for some other photograph, I too wonder what I look like photographed.

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Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph

Wabi-sabi Wednesday

Wabi-sabi

witness weather’s work.
solid, water wed with wreckage,
a withered wind whipped leaf
within a well-worn wrapper.
winter will not wait.

WHAM!
a wizard will work this into a range hood
wrought worthy of a warm wok.

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Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph

Whimsical Wednesday

Okay. Some weeks ago (over on the LUGWednesday acquired weird as an appropriate midweek photographic post; followed a week or two later by someone feeling more comfortable with wacky. As I consider photographs for this genre of midweek posts, whether new subjects or images from my archives, other related “w” words came to mind — such as wildwaggish (for old times sake) and for this week even whimsical. For me these will open up the Wednesday challenge a bit while remaining, I believe, true (enough) to the spirit of the original visual quest.

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Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph

Fireplace Surround by Nathaniel Reinartz

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to photograph the beautiufl fireplace surround, hand forged by Nathaniel Reinartz; and installed in an equally gorgeous arts and crafts style home located on Milwaukee’s East side. Nathaniel brought many of the formal details of the original woodwork, as well as the masonry, into his metal work. Additional details of this piece (as well as some of Nathaniel’s railings).

Leica R8/DMR, 21 mm Super Angulon

Leica R8/DMR, 35 mm Summilux