This is three . . .
dinosaurs and blocks, excavators, and garbage trucks, animals, and strong options, lots of opinions.
pasta and fruit, mom’s tofu and dad’s bread, snowmen, which have no season, and books, lots of books.
he brings a deep joy to my life, a tenderness I have not felt before, sometimes the blessing is almost too strong.
This is three, and time flew by so fast.
“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state.”
-Paul Outerbridge
Early morning, all alone in the kitchen, getting ready to feed the dog and make my latte.
It wasn’t quite pitch black outside, but as the photographer, I feel I can take liberties.
“When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.”
― Minor White
For years I scolded myself for not getting out more with my camera…
Out of my back yard, my neighborhood, my little town.
But no more . . .
Nowadays I make it a challenge to see what I might find of interest right in plain site.
Something I might walk by daily, something that tells a story.
Even if that story is a bit confusing at first glance.
“The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle
I always stop to listen what I am doing to listen to any train whistle, always paying attention to what arises inside of me as I listen. What is it I am longing for, what do I grieve?
Taking a moment to answer these two questions, is always enlightening.
“...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold. ”
― Diane Arbus
We take photos for all kinds of reasons - these two are for hope.