Category Archives: Documentary

Spring arrives along with 6″-8″ of snow

“When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.” – Minor White Second day of spring arrives in Mequon with a prediction of 6 – 10 inches of snow. At 11:00 am I point the camera out my office door to document the arrival of spring. (click image for larger view)

“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 […]

Catching a moment… passing… and true.

“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” – Jacques-Henri Lartigue sometimes we are still to catch that which passes by sometimes we pass by that which lies in stillness suddenly all made perfect sense; the jungle filled with songs, sex, fights, flights… care fully, slipping within transparent designs posing as true visions

Pictures as thoughts?

“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.” – Sir Joshua Reynolds Oh dear; do your rooms have quality thoughts hanging about? While waiting for my take-out Mu Shu Shrimp last evening I thought… (click images for larger view) then it occurred to me that… and yet… what do you think?

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?

put head, eye, and heart on the same axis

To take photographs means to recognize both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis. — H. C. Bresson (click image for larger view)