Human’s like routines. Consistent patterns of repetitive behavior that we do not need to think about. Advice is often given that someone feeling bored or unhappy with their present life position should change their routine. Energize themselves by breaking from …
Tag: Black and white photography
In a Hitchcockian Mood
Couldn’t sleep, again. So, with only the ambeit light from one bedside table lamp, I decided to take some shots using camera angles as my lead. I’m not Hitchcock.
Rulers: The Other Kind
Many great designs are so much a part of our daily lives that we fail to recognize their accomplishments. The ruler for example: School projects, math, geometry, construction, tailoring, appliance/furniture shopping, stage marks, diving, how tall we stand, tidal depth, …
Unsettling Perspectives
Not being sure what it is we see unsettles us. We are biased to need to understand. Constantly resolving the world around us to make sense, unfamiliar perspectives challenge us to see our world differently. Art is about upsetting our …
Wondrous Snow
What did the ancients first think? Frozen tears shed by a disappointed god? Icy ashes from a distant star? The world’s end? Did they catch them on their tongues? Build snowmen? Momentarily, the world’s scars are covered. Our ever shouting …
Randomness
Two days ago I traded my surgical splint for a walking boot. I’m learning so much from this experience. Like, a walking boot is a partial misnomer. For the first two weeks in the boot I cannot put more than …
Losing My Mind Some More
Oh, it’s possible. I fell asleep on the daybed with the Leica Monochrom and the Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1.0 ver. 3 next to me. I know this because in the middle of the night when I woke (as usual) to …
Losing My Mind!
Laid up in this room, I keep shooting the same shots with different cameras. I’m watching the world going by outside and I want to scream! (I may have actually screamed.) What I wouldn’t give to be able to take …
This is “That” Spot
I think every artist has a list of those spots that for whatever reason(s) elude their capture. Whether it is the light or the tempo or the context or the mood or the feeling there is something that always seems …