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Tranquility

July 13, 2016

I have been working on improving my layering skills.  A photographer friend and I are exchanging "concept" or "idea"  images that include at least three layers.  It means for me that I have to think about/feel how the  concept or idea can be represented visually and then find or take images that help do that.  It's an interesting shift in process for me.  Usually I shoot and process more intuitively.  Hopefully it will help me grow in several ways.

What is one way you want or need to grow?

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My images invite viewers to go beneath the surface, to feel and think more deeply, to wander inside their own souls, and to touch the Mystery.


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Spend a moment looking at this photograph before reading the following paragraphs.  What do you see in it?  What if any meaning does it have for you?  

Naming a photograph is an interesting process.  Names can direct the way viewers see and understand an image and thus be helpful in directing attention to certain elements. Of course sometimes the photographer may want the viewer to view and be moved (or not) by the image through their own eyes exclusively without help from the photographer.

The name of today's image is "Inner Landscape".  For me it reminds me of a peaceful time on sand with a rosy sky in the background, and it speaks of calm and serenity.  Is it an actual beach?  No, I shot it in an antique mall. 

Do you feel differently about it now that you have seen the name and know something of my take on it?  What is in a name anyway?

As the Dusk Settles. . .
As the Dusk Settles. . .
about 3 years ago

This image is unusual in that I so rarely make a black and white photo.  I sometimes laughingly say that about 1 out of every 1000 of my images is in black and white.  I love color.  However, there are some images that just simply have to be black and white to say what they are wanting to say, and this is one such image.

It was dusk when I shot it.  The light was fading though the bare branches were still distinguishable against the sky.  I was experimenting with camera movement a lot this shoot.  The movement here accentuated the interplay of the light of the sky and the dark of the tree branches, and so it is not quite a tree or sky but something else.  For me it somehow involves shifting and settling.  I call it, "As the Dusk Settles , , ,"

Of course it is an abstract.  So different people feel different things from it.  What comes up for you when you see it?