George Lottermoser, imagist, photographer, graphic artist, videographer, teacher, student

do you have the time?

December 15, 2008

unable to find it where did the time go? often killing it thoughtlessly stalking answers to questions sans reason killing and eating time will tell or fly really? perhaps if I’d saved some or spent less if you have a minute share it well The above poem floated around in my mind for a long time. […]

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“buzz” in world all a twitter

December 12, 2008

“…the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private.” – Roland Barthes, 1980 (click images for larger view) So I opened my virtual eyes/ears to the twittering world; the virtual equivalent to […]

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Thank you very much

November 27, 2008

“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)

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Good morning winter

November 24, 2008

“I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you’re curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you’re likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.” – Elliott Erwitt home with camera and shovel (click image for larger […]

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Looking closer to find the portrait

November 19, 2008

“Like doctors, photographers work with what is present. I suspect our chief emotions are anticipation, frustration, and patience, balanced by a marvelous sense of elation when things go right — when we think we’ve captured within a photograph some missing feeling, some sense of beauty, or bit of mystery in the fabric of life.” — […]

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Our man won and fresh snow fell

November 18, 2008

“A good photograph can penetrate the subconscious – but only if it is allowed to speak for however much time it needs to get there.” — Ralph Gibson (click images for larger view) The first moment after MSNBC declared the first Irish-African-American winner of the 2008 presidential election. first snow fell last night this morning, cold, […]

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Grant Park — 40 Years Apart

November 6, 2008

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, Grant Park, Chicago Illinois: 70,000 ticketed guests, with who knows how many additional participants, gathered to listen to President-elect Barack Obama; elected just minutes before. This group of hundreds of thousands of young and old, rich and poor, of all colors, genders, and ethnicities gathered to hear our first Irish-African-American President inspire […]

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photographs about secrets

October 31, 2008

“If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say ‘secrets.’ As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was A Secret Garden.” — Joyce Tenneson (click images for larger view) Each time the shutter clicks I’ve always had that feeling; as […]

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Trick (or treat) 08

October 26, 2008

“In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.” – Clarence John Laughlin (click images for larger view) Click this link for a slide show of additional photographs from […]

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See more intensely

October 23, 2008

“It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in […]

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