Pertaining to the ways in which visual elements are perceived and organized.
An art style that sheds light on the value of choice In a dream, I walked around an art gallery where all the large black and white photographs were made in “high key”—white subjects on white backgrounds with some grey values but no blacks. Attempting to achieve this with film was challenging because it required […]
Sometimes a photographer is gifted with an image that’s just too precious for words. The evocation is so pure, so gentle and quiet the only thought I want to give to this one is a silent “Ahhh!” Perhaps that’s the greater appreciation. Silence is God’s language, everything else is a poor translation. Deepak Chopra, […]
Inside and Outside; Hidden and Revealed Strong backlighting reveals the intricacies of form, pattern and texture in this daylily. It’s a wonder to me that the plant has chosen, over eons of evolutionary time, to reveal its complexity and beauty in individual flowers for just one day depending upon multiples for pollination. Flowers— like […]
It can sometimes be a sign of good parenting Our extended family had gathered in the afternoon to celebrate our grandson’s First Communion. We were sitting at the dining table talking when a woman noticed that I was wearing cuff links. She complimented me and another woman said she wished more men would dress […]
A collection of my photographs have found a home I am pleased to announce that 257 of my photographs featuring Cincinnati and the Tri-State region are now available online through the Cincinnati Public Library. The photos are identified by subject matter with relevant information, so visitors can search this permanent collection using keywords. Each image […]
A collection of my photographs have found a home I am pleased to announce that 257 of my photographs featuring Cincinnati and the Tri-State region are now available online through the Cincinnati Public Library. The photos are identified by subject matter with relevant information, so visitors can search this permanent collection using keywords. Each image […]
In my experience, more people seem to be moved more by color photographs than black and white. That’s understandable—color is more visually stimulating and it’s how we see the world. Our brains are wired for it. In our photography classes at RIT we sometimes heard some adage: “If you can’t make it good, make it […]
The wider our view, the more we can encompass In a previous blog I noted that it’s the brain that sees, not the eyes which send data via electrical impulses to the brain where they are interpreted to make seeing instantaneously possible. The image above, taken with a zoom lens, reveals something about perception—beyond merely […]
Seeing the sacred and profane in the same object One of my long-standing pet peeves has been littering. I even won a speech contest by ranting and raving about it in my high school years. Linda and I were running errands recently and we saw several places strewn with litter. Two years ago when I […]
The essence of living systems is self-organization In nature and in the world of man-made objects, geometric order evidences the interrelatedness of all things. Using the above image as a model, humanity may be said to consist of a single string within the spacetime continuum. Rather than forming a straight line—the way we experience time—the […]
