“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” — Alfred Steiglitz Last Saturday Sophia, family and friends celebrated her third birthday. Slide show of additional images. (click images for larger vew) And on Monday we remembered Mom and Dad, together. Slide show of additional images. Huge thank you Doug. You’ve […]
Category Archives: Family and Friends
Father’s day
“If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.” — Lord Snowdon (Grand) Father’s Day brunch – 08 – lucky me. (click images for larger view)
Storms, floods, visits, drives
“Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.” — Margaret Bourke-White Last evening the storms roared through (again). (click images for larger view) The rain poured down most of the night – leaving our little town’s main street underwater (and the upstream water has yet to crest). Click here […]
Passing down the clothes (or on to the rummage sale)
“It’s about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.” — Elliot Erwitt May 28th brought my niece, Libby, to Milwaukee for lunch and to pick out clothing which no longer fit Sophia. She seems to be counting her new outfits. (click images for larger view) My nephew, Erickson also […]
Dad’s tool box
We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us. — Ralph Hattersley Dad’s tool box: A gift from his father upon dad’s completion of his apprenticeship as a tool and die maker. My grandfather, a cabinet maker, built the bottom, four drawer unit for his son. My grandfather only owned one “power” tool, a […]
The importance of craft — technique
“A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.” — Sam Abell, Seeing and Shooting Straight Sunday morning: cold wind bites the skin even as the sun melts fresh […]
Portraits with real heart and soul
“Light is the shape and play of my thought… my reason for being a photographer.” — Barbara Morgan My niece, Ellie, asked me to make photographs of she and her fiance, Sean, on Easter Sunday. She had long kept the idea of creating facsimiles for photographs I made of her parents some 39 years earlier. […]
“If I knew how to… “
“If I knew how to make a good photograph, I’d do it every time.” – Robert Doisneau. “…an exercise in vigilance; the hope of noticing something which will make me understand more clearly what still resists being understood; what still lies obscured but at least now [is] glimpsed.” Dan Frank used these words to describe his […]
David and me; planning a shoot; and St. Patrick’s Day preparation
writers (don’t) meet up David hosts the party for he and i – just fine (click images for larger view) planning the easter sunday shoot with Ellie and Sean – testing a new light modifier – pleased St. Patrick needs cookies – don’t you know?
The deliciousness of this or that moment
“Expression to my way of thinking does not consist of the passion mirrored upon a human face or betrayed by violent gesture. The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.” — Matisse Then, from the kitchen […]