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
Category Archives: Flora
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
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 […]
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. […]
The occasional Friday flower
(click image for larger view) Hostas. What more can one say?
Friday’s for contemplation of flowers
Sonny Carter, over on the Leica User Group (LUG), began a tradition some many years ago. He decided that Fridays were for flowers. And he’s provided flower photographs to the list every Friday ever since. Over time other members have added to the LUG’s Friday flower bouquet. Ric Carter contributes steadily; as does Philippe Amard. […]
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 […]
As fresh as food can be
this morning on the porch a tomato the moment before biting into it tasting every bit as good as it looked
’tis the (harvest) season
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“Give a man color film …sooner or later you’ll catch him in the garden…
“Fashion, flowers, nudes and portraits — they’re all the same: light, form, color. And mystery. And mystery is very important. When I started photographing flowers, I thought, ‘My God, where have I been?’ I’m totally addicted to this project. I’d never seen the mysteries of a flower. We walk by wonders every day and don’t […]