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Enthusiasms I Will Never Reach
Continue ReadingI have never been as joyful or animated as the women in these images. I cannot soar that high or reach that deep. I made these pictures at a night club in Asheville, North Carolina on a New Year’s Eve, a high time for everybody attending. It seems to me the ladies are approaching […]
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In The Days of Street Photography
Continue ReadingI am sharing two favorite images from my street photography days. There is good action in the foreground of both pictures, however the expressions of onlookers in the background — including those of the little kids in strollers — give me the most delight.
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Experiencing Other Observers
Continue ReadingWe are blind to other minds in the universe — except our fellow humans — and about them we have only our own thoughts about what they are thinking and feeling (theoretical knowledge) and no direct experience. I have always wondered how birds of prey see the world from their cruising altitude. The image above […]
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Remembering Fox Talbot
Continue ReadingWilliam Henry Fox Talbot was a distinguished English gentleman of the 19th Century, and a failed artist/draftsman. That defeat seems to have propelled him toward his invention of “photogenic drawing,” or “photography.” He put together a book in 1844 called The Pencil of Nature, his metaphorical way of describing the new type of drawing with […]
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Looking and Not Seeing (For Years)
Continue ReadingThis succulent lived in my front yard for three years before I took a good look at it, and even then I am not sure how clear were my perceptions. The agave grows eight feet from my parking space in front of the garage — less than two feet from the sidewalk leading into the […]
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Crossing the Street Egyptian Style
Continue ReadingI lived in Alexandria, Egypt for about a month and stayed two years in Cairo. The latter city sprawls on both sides of the Nile river, a metropolis containing 18 million persons, few personal vehicles but lots of taxis, delivery trucks and micro-buses. In most places there are no traffic controls whatsoever. Downtown Cairo has […]
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If I Had Another Lifetime
Continue ReadingIf I had another life to live, and could be newly born today (when we have reached the Promised Land of photographic technology), I think I would become an image specialist. I would take pictures of dancers more or less exclusively, and not just professionals but amateurs also — like these I observed in North […]
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Some Beginner’s Luck
Continue ReadingThis is my first photograph of the natural world in the digital era. Despite technical flaws, I think it still works. I believe I had in mind an image by Ansel Adams entitled “Burnt Stump and New Grass,” so there is a copycat element here. Any journey worth taking begins with baby steps, often leaning […]
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