This guy.

Traipsing about in the middle of nowhere, it's nice to stop and enjoy the sunshine. Especially when you find warm sunshine in the middle of January!

Back in the rusty old film days of '09

8 steps to feeling glad about your photos:

1. Take a couple rolls of black and white film
2. Develop negatives
3. Stop! Do not make prints.
4. Put negatives in drawer
5. Let them sit there for at least a year.
6. Forget about them.
7. Make prints, or scan negatives.
8. Thank God for making film.

Halloween photos to come....

God's a painter

 

Night and day, clouds are amazing swooshes and scribbles of intricacy.

I love them. 

Today's Textual Fancy

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance." - Ansel Adams

Question for you, dears...

What is identity to you?

How would you want your identity portrayed in a photograph? Meaningful objects, actions, portraits....how about it?

A breeze from the west

Tank Man

Amazing group of stories. Warning: this article may lead to photographers appreciating how easy their "difficult" shots are!

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/

"Until recently, until photography came onto the scene, art was an additive process. Then photography came along. The advantage of photography was that you went out, and you were at the mercy of what you found. That's a very different thing than building an image element by element, constructing the composition. In the photograph, everything matters. Not just the featured star of the picture, the subject, but a background over which you really have no control. And the emphasis here is discovery, and the multitude of ways things can be deeply interrelated, and yet go unobserved. His assertion was that this was photography's real advantage. The photograph is able to synthesize what is before the camera in a way that we, ourselves, cannot. The beauty of this synthesis would be that it is a reintroduction to reality. No one view better than another, but fresh, something we could have never dreamed up. Sommer would later say that it was enough to come home with a sliver of experience, a sliver of reality, that would already be miraculous."

-Emmet Gowin, speaking on the ideas of Frederick Sommer

Today's Textual Fancy

“No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”

—	Robert Adams