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And from out of nowhere, for no other reason than it snowed today and the light sucked, we take a break from our regularly scheduled photos of brick buildings and shadows for a look at this spider. Still looking at … Continue reading
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On the subject of shifting focus as I discussed in a previous post, I found this interesting quote from my favorite photographer, Stephen Shore. “Whenever I find myself copying myself – making pictures whose problems I’ve already solved – I … Continue reading
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I think the above photo is a good example of what happens when you let a photo come to you. The little detail of the person between the two power poles makes the photo much more interesting for the viewer … Continue reading
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I made an alternate image of the above photo without so much glare from the windows, but then the slightly different angle meant it didn’t have the magenta light coming through tarp covering the construction. Neither one is quite right, … Continue reading
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“If a photographer mistrusts her or his photographs, a gap seems to appear – the gap between that which the photographer wants to express, and that which the photographers perceives as expressed. Attempts to bridge that gap almost always involve … Continue reading
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I love the people who ended up hidden in these photographs of uptown in the early or late sun. The thing about using photography to explore the world is that projects tend to lead from your intended subject to something … Continue reading
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“These shared moments can become our memories, to the point where the memories become as fake as many of the photographs around us (then again, aren’t memories always as fake as photographs?).” – From Photography and Desire by Joerg Colberg … Continue reading
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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” – Carson McCullers
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I think it’s a Plymouth something or other. Photos from near Little Lepreau. Julie tells me the in color for everything this year is going to be yellow. The only thing good that ever came in yellow was my old … Continue reading
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I used to think a great photo arrested you. That if you saw it from a distance it’s the kind of thing that would make you come closer and want to examine the details. I suppose I still think that … Continue reading
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More travels in rural New Brunswick. More magenta sunrise and yellow skies and blue shadows. More work to be done. All photos from this morning. Shown in the order taken.
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Did someone snatch the kid who owned this book away before they were able to circle the answer? We’ll never know.
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If I were a rich man I would buy that building on the right and make it into a photography gallery and studio space. It’s not even that expensive.
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“I feel somehow or other that it’s a mission … that it has nothing whatsoever to do with my own being, but that it’s something quite apart from me. Somehow or other, I happen to have this – whatever the … Continue reading
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“Every time I go to one of these places it’s as if no one else has ever been there to photograph it. I really don’t give a damn whether anybody was there ten minutes before … I want to discover … Continue reading
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“Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a … Continue reading
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Noel Winters. I came across this scratched in the wall of a partially collapsed and abandoned home on the Kingston Peninsula.
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I used to be really drawn to abandoned structures. I suppose I still am, though I don’t seem to find as many as I once did. They’re like old country songs. They reek of the love that used to live … Continue reading
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“Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.” – Susan Sontag