Last Friday Ann and I packed a few things in the car and drove west by northwest on Hwy 60. We stopped in North Leeds for a bite to eat. The restaurant had what seemed like a romantic little room for two; it also had very little and very red light and quickly began to […]
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Access to Awareness precedes Awareness itself
“The whole point of [making] pictures is so you don’t have to explain things with words.” — Elliot Erwitt (click images for larger view) Brady Street Festival, 2008. Slide show of additional images from this event.
To compose = present the subject in strongest manner possible
“To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.” — Edward Weston enjoy the summer blooms return quickly to earth with autumn’s approach (click image for larger view)
Can we trust pictures?
“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” — Gilles Peress water, wondering, waiting for still to reveal trustworthy knowledge (click images for larger view) Slide show of additional “river walk 080715” photographs.
A Hasselbad lens now mounts to the Ultima
“The whole search is for the unknown.” — Jerry Valente Today I finished assembly of the milled ring to the recessed Cambo lens board to allow the mounting of Hasselblad lenses to the Cambo Ultima. After mounting the 40mm Distagon and the R8/DMR to the Ultima I walked the rig out to the porch, where […]
Flora now nests where fauna once did
“[I crop] for the benefit of the pictures. The world does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera [frame].” “What use is having great depth of field, if there is not adequate depth of feeling?” — W. Eugene Smith they appeared where once I photographed a family of feathered friends (click images […]
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 […]
Take the time. Put your soul in the photograph.
“There’s no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.” — Ruth Bernhard (click image for larger view)
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 […]
Motivational videos returned by USPS as “possible threat” – wtf
I believe in self explanatory pictures. — Moses Oliver So, I produce 3 DVD’s for a young man who lost his sight in a boat racing accident a number of years ago. The videos are to promote his work as a motivational speaker. I put $5 worth of heart stamps on the package and send them […]