Friday, April 6, 2007
As I see it, photography represents the vain hope of capturing the moment. The world in its endless variation and permutations of culture and nature compels me to document it, to somehow save the image as a surrogate memory. What results is a record of my travels and an understanding that this record is incomplete. I frame the image with the camera and edit it as it’s stored. In the process much is lost. But some details of the moment are preserved, flattened, truncated and certainly filtered by my own point of view. It’s in this way that the conversation takes place. I am my past and as I encounter the world, I shape it and it shapes me.
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Fishing Boats, Paraty, Brazil
Paraty is a well preserved but very commercial colonial town on the Costa Verde in southern Brazil.
Pigeons, Bunhill Fields, London
Bunhill Fields is the cemetary outside the City of London where dissidents were buried, among them, William Blake.
Mickey, Agra, India
Disney's reach is astonishing. Agra is the place where one might also find the Taj Mahal.
Newport Beach, California
Sunset at Noon. Strange atmospheric effects were caused by smoke from the brush fires that swept southern California in October of 2003.
Venice, Italy
In Venice the twists and turns of narrow streets and forking canals leave one suseptible to the unexpected.
Fire Escape, St. Paul, Minnesota
Taken from underneath an entry overhang, the photo frame plays with the ambiguity of positive and negative space.
Duomo, Florence, Italy
The Duomo's renaissance façade facinates endlessly.
New York, NY
Ambiguous shadows cast by winter trees in New York's Central Park onto the exterior wall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mona Lisa, Louvre, Paris, France
Just outside the room where the Mona Lisa hangs alone on the wall, there are 4 other major works by da Vinci which few tourists bother with, unless of course they've read Dan Brown's novel.
Death Valley, California
Excessive rain in the winter of 2005 allowed a spring desert bloom that locals said hadn't happened for 100 years.
Rooftops, Grenoble, France
Winter desaturates color, reducing everything to texture.
Lisbon, Portugal
An exerpt from the Monument at the entrance to the harbor of Lisbon, Prince Henry of Portugal stoops to conquer.
Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
Daniel Liebeskind's somber, eloquent Garden of Exiles seen from within keeps it's olive trees permanently out of reach.
Olive Tree, Tuscany, Italy
The texture of this tree's bark recalls elephant skin
Still Life, New York, NY
For form and texture, the skyline of New York is unsurpassed.
Jodhpur, India
No different from anywhere else, graphic exstacy is required to sell phone cards.
Notre Dame, Paris, France
Context is everything.
Watcher, Chichén Itzá, Mexico
It seems fitting that the so named 'observatory' in this complex of ruins would be ringed by heads openly gazing at the circumference of the heavens.
Bayfield, Wisconsin
Merry Christmas.
Shop Window, Amsterdam
It's interesting how many narratives can be pulled from a window display. Here's one, for example.
Shop Window, Amsterdam 2
And another...
Shop Window, Amsterdam 3
Yet another...
Shop Window, Amsterdam 4
Obviously, how you choose to frame the image controls how the narative is perceived. Not only a strategy used by photographers, think language, think politics, think marketing, think life.
Tuscan Grape Vines in Winter
When the sun is at a low angle the light is dramatic.
Dew Drops on Cornstalk Leaves
Just experimenting with the macro.
Abstract with Found Objects
The title says it all.
Palm, Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Homage á O'keefe