Sometimes we go out with our cameras in the hope of freezing the natural world with absolute clarity. Only to find that the light, the film or digital sensor speed, our ability to focus or hold still, produces less than the clarity we hoped for. Yet magic, if not photographic perfection, can occur. We may […]
Category Archives: Fawna
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
The Dancing Horses (bicycle riding, weight lifting and painting parrots) and other delights
August 2, 2009, Ann decided to take her granddaughters to see the Dancing Horses on Hwy 50, west of Lake Geneva, WI. Quite a unique and entertaining afternoon — most especially for the young girls who already ride and now dream of “being” what they saw there. (click on image for larger view – Slide […]
Traveling back through the weeks that were
Traveling through the last few weeks with thoughts mostly of Ann and her upcoming birthday; which occurred on August 17th. It all began with a trip up the coast to Sheboygan, WI to introduce Jim Proue and David White. I’d thought it would be fun to have them sing and play at Ann’s little surprise family birthday […]
celebration, memories framed, and loss
Duncan moved on out of this life Wednesday evening. (click images for larger view) Mary Kelly stopped by to show me that 10 years after receiving a print from me as a birthday gift she decided to frame it. I was most impressed with my multi-color inking on my chop Last Sunday (father’s day), before […]
Natural architect-builders: location, location, location
beneath the lid of the recycling bin for steel cans this fellow builds a condo project (click image for larger view)
Photography is not… or what is photography?
“Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances is it anything ever anywhere near a beach.” – Walker Evans – American Photography, 1984, 23 – 24. [“EW:100 – Centennial Essays in Honor of Edward Weston”, “Carmel: Beneficial to Bohemia” p. 48, Untitled 41, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California […]
Images held within us
“You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are moved by something which is in agreement with an image you already held within yourself.” — Frederick Sommer yesterday: attached the 400 mm f:6.8 Telyt to the Visoflex and M8 for the […]
Thank you very much
“I said back off dude, just back away, nice and slow, that’s right… yeah, now we both have something to be thankful for.” — Wild Turkey (not the beverage) (click image for larger view)
A photograph is not what is photographed
“…the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it’s something else.” — Garry Winogrand My good friends at the Leica User Group have created a tradition called Friday flowers. I offer these in the spirit of that tradition. The blue flowers […]