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December 17, 2007

For the past couple years I’ve posted a Photograph A Week (PAW) on my web site. The PAW files from 2007 can be seen here. For 2008 I’ll transition to post the PAWs on this blog. While this image is not the pick for this week (50); it does come from the past week’s exploration of […]

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Choosing

December 14, 2007

“There are no events but thoughts and heart’s hard turning, the heart’s hard learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.” —Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm

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Imagination in harmony with truth – sliced out of time and space

December 13, 2007

Photography = selection, composition and light; sliced out of space and time; usually within a fraction of a second. “Some people’s photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.” Helmut Newton People seem to desire truth based on unembellished physical evidence. A witness with a camera appears to provide such evidence. Yet, people also possess appetites for imagination. So the best photography seems to ride the flux of real experience and the […]

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Photography Review

December 12, 2007

Contemplating the photograph as a fleeting frozen fragment of the eternal present. The photograph seems little more than a joke unless considered within significant context. For the last week folks at the LUG cafe (Leica User Group), located in the West Bank of Brian Reid’s email servers, have discussed the concepts of avant-garde, cutting edge, as […]

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Dan Nauman’s Iron and Kevin Meyers’ inspiration

December 11, 2007

Printing photographs of iron work by Dan Nauman bighornforge.com today. I’ve photographed Dan’s beautiful work for a number of years now, along with developing and hosting his web site. He’ll submit these prints to the National Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metals Association http://www.nomma.org/; for consideration in their Top Job competition. Simultaneously, I’m creating a dvd for Kevin Meyers, a motivational speaker http://www.mytruevision.net. […]

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Creativity, Drive, Discovery, Exploration

December 10, 2007

creativity = the drive to discover, explore, rearrange, isolate and frame elements the arrangement’s beauty, eloquence and/or ability to stir the body, mind and spirit over time determine the usefulness and/or value as art or Art The last week brought visual exploration of a mirror appearing within the subject area of photographs; with the intent of bringing additional environmental or subject […]

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