Category Archives: Up Close

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 […]

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 […]

Last week visualized

(click images for larger view) the fall leaves continue to fascinate both eye and mind (as metaphor for life’s cycles) (R8/DMR with 60mm Macro Elmarit) Gazing up while waiting for malts with Sophia (M8 with 28mm Summicron) holiday remnants seen while waiting for David along with a striking SUV interior and finally a delightful David a […]

aware, motivated, yearning, reaching

“Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.” – Ruth Bernhard […]

“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind”

returning (always) to the study of wabi sabi wherein the student perceives beauty in the ephemeral, transient, isolated, simple, subdued tranquil, natural, intimate, eternal, melancholic, asymmetrical, earthy, organic, rough, uneven, asperities, spacious, humble, sober, intangible yearning, impermanent, passage of time… (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

Contemplate the cycles and seasons of life

snow will soon cover the paths walked with Sophia and ice the river from which this mandala emerged her fourth fall my sixty third (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

Friday’s flower (for Martin Howard)

overcast today, gray, damp, cool, few flowers left, leaves turning on trees shamrock seems sad [family Leguminosae, in particular the lesser yellow trefoil (Trifolium minus)] (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit

Meditation — contemplate impermanence

Photographer, Richard Avedon, said, “I think all art is about control – the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.” In my experience we have much less control than we often believe. Change and impermanence rule — that thought — that feeling — that observation — try and hold one of them for even a moment. […]