Imagist Blog – Page 84 – © 2023 George Lottermoser: photography, graphic design, video, art, literature, zen

within my granddaughter’s orbit

“…we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights… That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.
If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.“ — Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” — David Alan Harvey

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Leica M8, 28mm Summicron

forms fro zen

rock, sand, here and now
covered, they continue
to express their form

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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit

friday’s frozen kisses

0 degrees Fahrenheit

“Photography is about sustaining a creative continuum until you create a visual orgasm, suspended in Time for eternal ecstasy. What you see forever may only occur for a fraction of a second and only occurs once. I have tried to re-create photographs – you can’t. Better or worse, yes – but the same, no! Nothing in this Life is ever the same twice. You might THINK it is, but you just aren’t looking closely enough.” — James Elliott, from his essay on Kiss On Frosted Glass

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Leica R8/DMR, 100 Apo Macro Elmarit

the chase

we all chase something
choosing what, when and where to chase
makes all difference

May we chase and capture that which makes a positive difference in the world in 2010.

“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it.” — Edward Weston

“This is where the artist comes in, arranging in a frame the scattered elements into a story, anticipating and chasing the light, bringing it all together to create an evocative image capable of communicating the visual experience… . — Guy Tal

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Leica R8/DMR, 100mm Apo Macro Elmarit

Holidaze

happy holidaze
and to all
a happy new year

click here for a slide show of additional holiday photographs

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Sophia-days = grand Wednesdays

grand pa and grand child
duets with me on guitar
and she on harmonica

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hiking to observation towers

developing the habit of sharing a chocolate malt
between pinball and bowling games

or just talking around the kitchen table

always delightful time
well spent

Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron

sometimes one plus one equals one

father plus son

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”
— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

They appeared to enjoy a perfect father/son afternoon in the park.

Each – both speaking and listening.

Followed by throwing the football in the open field.

Apparently exercising both minds and bodies.

I felt envious

and missed my father

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Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt

Milwaukee river meditations

“In good writing, words become one with things.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

perhaps also in good photography
the image becomes one
with the subject
as well as
the moment

for the moment I think so

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Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt

the beauty in failing

Sometimes we go out with our cameras in the hope of freezing the natural world with absolute clarity. Only to find that the light, the film or digital sensor speed, our ability to focus or hold still, produces less than the clarity we hoped for. Yet magic, if not photographic perfection, can occur. We may just find that we captured poetry rather than clarity.

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