April 2010
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Freedom and it's Owner
We’ll be rich in memories of all the places We’ve captured without camera We’ve seen the pyramids We’ve seen the Louvre We’ve seen Orion upside down Total eclipses and the moonlight shadows We’ve seen dolphins jumping waves We’ve ski’ed the mountains and we swam in the rivers And let the sunlight dry our skin But freedom, freedom never...
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gone baby gone
for her
dogflu
trying to heat up herbal tea, lemon & honey while loading 20 year old film in my camera, when the bell sounded the microwave was empty. I had put my cup in the freezer.
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a new visual code
A new visual code? I’ve read Susan Sontag’s essays on photography a few times, I even have 2 copies. I find myself going back to her book, amongst a few others, to help re-focus or re-align or maybe detox from all the shit out there in visual land. She talks about the effect modern technology has on photography. She notes that there is an over abundance of visual material. I know this as...
“Decisive Moment - “Such a grace is found only when you don’t look for it,...”
– from Pierre Assouline’s biography of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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unshuttered workspace
I love to spend my own time on my photos. I use film and prefer rangefinder cameras cause you get to see the image and as you click the shutter the view is still visible whereas in a SLR camera (looking through the lens) you lose sight of what you’ve captured momentarily through the viewfinder. Plus also in the viewfinder of a rangefinder you see more than just the image area which I think helps...
