photography | photography
Oct.27.2009
I've been studying the goldenrod along my fence...and played around with a few pictures downloaded from my camera, this photo turned out to be my favorite so far...it reminds me of one of my favorite paintings, Charles Burchfield's watercolor, Goldenrod in December, 1948...(Whitney Museum of...
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Oct.07.2009
Of all the beautiful photos you’ve ever seen in your life, what would be the ones you would put in a single book to share with the world?
National Geographic tapped into its vault of photographs from over years of time and put them together in this amazing book. Some of these pictures are dated...
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Oct.05.2009
Bill simply got tired of being around the kind of people who weren't exactly happy to see him, and that he didn't want to see. So he quit law enforcement, dead-of-night surveillance, investigations, and watching bad people do bad things--and came to live and work at the South Rim of the Grand...
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Sep.27.2009
ARTIST 'S STATEMENT: JOHN OUGHTON
ZERO APERTURE, PHOTOGRAPHER
After reading Yeats, the Tarot and the Golden Dawn by Kathleen
Raine, and The Negative by Ansel Adams
The number Zero is a Fool
an empty O under glass
who seeks more in a scene
but what is, is
the Fool is bottomed in...
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Sep.08.2009
I've always appreciated the arts and believe they add greatly to our existence. Strike that-rather, I believe that they validate our very being. From music to literature, to painting and photography, it is the creative works that make life so much more bearable. I gave this idea some...
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Aug.19.2009
Something about two articles caught my attention about art, design, photography and process. The first, “Familiarity Breeds Contempt” appears on the blog Rap Sheet, by J. Kingston Pierce, and presents numerous book jackets that use the same stock photo. Granted, most of these copycat covers are for...
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Aug.14.2009
I grew up less than a mile from what is now regarded as an "informal settlement" -- Alexandra Township. The striking difference between the lavish homes surrounded by high electrified walls remain in stark contrast to the poverty in Alex. The ANC has got to do something about Alexandra...
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Aug.06.2009
"One can travel the world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you see."--Giorgio Morandi
Courtesy of my friend, the luminously talented photographer Bruce Barone.
To see more of Bruce's work, click here. Or visit...
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Jul.30.2009
This week on my home blog, I've been posting snapshots from my trip to Ireland. Click on the links below to take you to each day's post:
Monday: Shamrocks in Ireland
Tuesday: Rainbows in Ireland
Wednesday: Boats in Ireland
Thursday: Signs in Ireland
Friday: The Cutest Children in Ireland
Enjoy!
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