Category Archives: Fawna

Visitor at the front door

We couldn’t hear his knock. The crane fly simply clung to the window waiting for me to notice that he had interest in a portrait session. After a few shots I took the SD card to the computer to review the proofs. When I returned (for possible reshoots) the visitor had vanished; leaving no forwarding […]

Miksang and flow

In an eMail Alan Magayne-Roshak said of my August 24th blog post, “I love it.  It’s easy to get lost in it (in a good way). This reminds me of a David Vestal column where he quoted Picasso as saying, “I don’t seek, I find.” ( The column is at home; I hope I got it […]

Draw (still) life in — to truly see it

Dorothea Lange said, “The camera is an instrument which teaches people how to see without a camera.” Emile Zola offered, “In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.” I believe that drawing also teaches people how to see [without a camera]. If you truly want to “see deeply” into […]

Hope: “If you build it he will come.” — Shoeless Joe Jackson, Field of Dreams

sit on the porch, watch it build, then sit, waiting too hoping for a meal (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit (yes. stopping down would have been nice. but for 1/30th @ 2.8. I like it)

perpetual examination, inquiry, looking into…

“Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation – everything except a stage set.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson “When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.” — Minor White (click image for larger view) Leica M8, 35mm Summilux Asph

kids and dogs

“A well-composed image will catch our attention because the eye finds a certain satisfaction in composure. But that is not enough. Good photographs are also disturbing, and inevitably remind us of what we have overlooked.” – John Rosenthal Do you find these photographs disturbing; do they remind you? (click image for larger view – recommended) […]