LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS
For the past week, I have felt this intense need to look at photographs. I don’t mean to look at photographs-in-the-making, those being exposed; I mean to look at photographs…
WHAT IS YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC VISION? — PART TWO
When you make an image, is it of what’s in front of the camera or what’s four inches behind it?” ~ Dewitt Jones I read this story long ago in…
WHAT IS YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC VISION? – PART ONE
One of my favorite photographer-bloggers is David DuChemin. Just after I had read his recent blog post, “Image or Imagery?”, written (and tagged by him as a bit of a…
SURPRISE
I travel this street nearly every day, and sometimes more often than that. It is my usual route out of town. This residential street lined with ordinary houses, tidy lawns,…
FRESH STARTS
Xīnnián hǎo! Monday, February 8 was the start of the 2016 Chinese New Year. It is the year of the Fire Monkey. I read somewhere that the Year of the Fire Monkey…
Stairway to Nowhere
Last week, on a drive around the backroads of Monroe’s Tualco Valley, I came across this concrete staircase, standing alone, fixed in time. There were no clues as to…
Roll with the Punches
I just spent several days in Port Townsend. The main reason for my visit was to make images. In particular, I wanted to photograph Fort Worden’s extensive system of large,…
Observation
Recently, when I was wandering around the old Northern State Hospital farm for a project I have been working on, this wall with a barred window on one of…
Emptiness
Not too long ago, Sears, one of the anchor stores in the Cascade Mall, in Burlington, closed its doors. Dark and vacant, it was a hulking monument to our…
Experimentation
The true method of knowledge is experiment. ~ William Blake Recently, I acquired an Angénieux lens, a vintage French-made lens that is legendary for its optical quality and speed for…
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