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Making Eye Statements: January 2017
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Wednesday, 25 January 2017. Solitary Compositions and Frozen Improvisations. 8220;Composition has almost always been solitary.”. 8220;Composition is frozen improvisation.”. The basics of composition included consideration of:. 8226; the rule of thirds. 8226; balancing elements/asymmetry. 8226; leading lines. 8226; symmetry and patterns. 8226; depth of field. What follows are photographs I made in response to this week’s theme. As always on my photographic journey, I relished being alone with my...8220;Th...
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Making Eye Statements: August 2016
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Sunday, 28 August 2016. Marvelling My Birthday Away! Tipping my hat in front of the Isabel Bader Centre for the. Performing Arts, Kingston. Photo by Susan Armstrong. The title of today’s blog posting comes from Dylan Thomas’ “Poem in October”. Here’s an excerpt:. My birthday began with the water-. Birds and the birds of my winged trees flying my name. Above the farms and the white horses…. And there could I marvel my birthday away…. O may my heart’s truth. On this high hill in a year’s turning. Frog on t...
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Making Eye Statements: Staying Humble...
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Wednesday, 11 January 2017. 8220;In a humble state, you learn better.”. Ah yes, staying humble…the key to learning…. Well, yesterday I was feeling very humble indeed at the Art Gallery of Ontario. But happy humble. Let me explain, with apologies to my experienced camera friends, for whom the following may reek of naiveté. Cue the eye rolling…. Present when she was needed, in the background when she wasn’t, she got us all working through aperture settings, shutter speeds, ISO settings, and white bal...
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Making Eye Statements: October 2016
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Sunday, 30 October 2016. A Secret About A Secret. 8220;A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”. 8220;Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion, and mystery,. Rather than obvious description.”. 8220;Photography is the art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see. And everything to do with the way you see them.”. 8220;Abstraction demands more from me than realism. Instead of reproducing something outside of me,. Decorations, Zwick'...
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Making Eye Statements: November 2016
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Sunday, 27 November 2016. A Barn of One's Own. Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem,. A shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes by light shining through the cracks between the boards. Old leather tack, lengths of chain, rope, and baling twine dangled from nails and rafters and draped over stall railings. Generations of pocketknives lay lost in the layers of detritus on the floor.". Carolyn Jourdan, American author. Unites her passion for ...
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Making Eye Statements: June 2016
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Monday, 27 June 2016. Those Magnificent Young Folks in Their Flying Machines! Last weekend, the Quinte International Air Show (QIAS) roared to life at Canadian Forces Base Trenton. And what a great show it was! I have always loved just being around airplanes. Never, ever to be a pilot, but simply to admire the design and the engineering, and to marvel endlessly about the miracle of flight. For me, watching a plane take off is literally awesome. When a plane flies over, I always look up! In the midst of l...
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Making Eye Statements: July 2016
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Tuesday, 26 July 2016. The Usual Seen Unusually. The starting point for today’s posting comes from the late American photographer, Beaumont Newhall: “We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.” I’m not sure who the “we” is in this quotation, but I do know that Newhall (1908-1993) was an influential photographer, curator, critic, and author, best known for his still popular book The History of Photography. I’ve been taking photography seriously for about two years now, an...
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Making Eye Statements: December 2016
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Friday, 30 December 2016. Creatures Walking Into My Room. 8220;[I] always thought of a great photograph as if some creature. Into my room; it’s like, ‘How did you get here? Larry Sultan (1946-2009), American Photographer. I’m writing this blog posting on the penultimate day of 2016. The past two weeks have been lovingly filled with feasts, guests, and gifts. It is a time to look back on 2016 and its many blessings and challenges. And a time to consider the new year that beckons. Moira Lake, Near Madoc.
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Making Eye Statements: Creating My Own Private World
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Wednesday, 4 January 2017. Creating My Own Private World. 8220;Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”. Arnold Newman, American Photographer, 1918-2006. My first blog of the new year…and I start with an unCanadian confessional hat trick: I don’t like the winter; I don’t like the cold; I don’t like the snow. There, I said it. And I hope the ghosts of Chief Dan George, Sir John A. Macd. Which brings me to this week’s b...
