A stairway to the sky. Reavealing little moments right under our noses. This was taken at a friend's house in Mexico. There is no doubt that our world is undergoing a rare and accelerated change. A kind of forced rehab is upon us, demanded of every sector of life. The cascading effects of the Corona Virus epidemic leave little doubt that time is up for many institutions and … [Read more...]
Street Photography: Where does the street begin and end? Part 1.
Santiago Chile The history of the pathway, the street, and the scenes they often lead to is a storied one. The trail is not so much a physical thing as an ephemeral one, a place in our collective imagination. Picture if you will, the most populated space in your town or city, it's energy, its culture. Picture the roads leading there, the square or congregating spaces. Where … [Read more...]
Visualization and The Evolution of Conscious Awareness
"No man steps in the same river twice, for its not the same river and he's not the same man". Heraclitus Is there a more familiar and oft quoted phrase in landscape photography than Ansel Adams famous: "previsualization". I always get a chuckle when I see this term as it makes me think of "confusing chaos", somewhat of an obvious redundancy. My guess is that simply … [Read more...]
Of Tools and Art
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams – one of the trickiest images to print in existence – the best of silver gelatin printing, in the hands of a master, is barely good enough. As any art form matures, tools become first good enough, then much better than good enough, and we can come to first develop the techniques to use those tools to their fullest capability, … [Read more...]
What is Equivalence ?
A change of perspective is a change in state. Jean Piaget reminds us that, “What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.” The idea of equivalence in photography is richly rooted in a time when photography was beginning to discover its own nature and continues to be a powerful force for discovering our own nature, which is greater than we … [Read more...]
