“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer” ― Walter De Mulder railscape 1 Right about now you might be wondering, what is a railscape? I really do not believe it has a definable quantity of qualities. Certain aspects of composition, geo-location, and subject matter can be applied…but it is so much more. Does it playfully explore time? It… Read more →
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Retrospective Demons
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist” Pablo Picasso I was confronted one day by a stranger that asked me why I was an artist and they were not. While I would enjoy saying that I had a ready answer to put them at ease the reality was they had taken… Read more →
-scapes
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams Normally I do not participate in landscape, seascape, whatever scape photography is the flavor of the month unless it is something unconventional. Nothing against Ansel Adams the zone system is indelibly linked to him, it’s just not as interesting to me. Blame my photography professor that asked me…… Read more →
Have you ever…
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. -Albert Einstein …looked at the world around you? I mean really drank it all deeply in? The colors, shapes, lines and their relationship to one another will initially intoxicate you with their possibilities before clarifying into consumable chunks of memory. The easiest way to exercise your imagination… Read more →
…On photography
“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world” Orson Welles new topographic #2 As artistic expression photography has always had to gain acceptance. Of all the possible mediums of creativity available, only photography has had to win approval in both black/white and color. As soon as color film made its… Read more →
Why a pHo-bo?
The short answer is unlikely inspirations
New Topographic #1
Everyone is inspired by something or someone or some combination thereof. That inspiration is loaded with infinite possibilities from ignoring it to creating a master-piece work. Personally I have always thought that trains were uniquely fun, aesthetically profound, and designed to reflect the world they reside within. Besides my uncle used to regal me with stories of catching a train to watch a baseball game in another state or part of the country. His favorite team no longer resides in the city where a pennant was won in 1957, and the railroad has also disappeared into antiquity, but the spirit lives on.
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