There was another snow fall in my city, this time in November and not October. We walked around our urban neighborhood after sunset and the streets were, as so often in our neighborhood and since the pandemic, very empty. The snowfall further prevented people from...
As photographers, we often worry about gear. I certainly have ... trying to find the perfect camera, lens, or other tool. Film, Digital? I have been focusing on film photography and thought I would not go back to digital. Well, this wasn't so. I have been shooting...
I love photographers who focus on story, but at the moment, this is not my core focus. I discussed this in an earlier post.
I love minimalism, and reduction of images to its essence. Depending on your intent, the reduction / minimalism can cause viewers to lose context and do not understand the image. The question is whether this is so important.
Why Create (daily)?
I should have probably posted this in the beginning of this new "micro-blog" series. Since I am focusing a lot of my personal photography related efforts on my podcast (aside from my personal work of course), my regular blog posts might be getting a little less attention.
I love minimalism, and reduction of images to its essence. Depending on your intent, the reduction / minimalism can cause viewers to lose context and do not understand the image. The question is whether this is so important.
By reduction I mean to reduce the image to its essence. Now sometimes this can be at the risk of losing the "story" or context. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I am strongly influenced by minimalistic art, and love the minimalist style of architecture, photography, painting and even living. Although I do not practice minimalism I think there is much to be said about reducing things to the essence.
I love visual arts, and in particular paintings and sculptures (aside from photography). Impressionists like Monet, Sisley, Manet are, in my opinion, amazing.
At the moment, I am doing these daily dispatches as a way to put down some thoughts on "paper".
About photography.
About the creative process.
Looking at my images, and reviewing some of Jay Maisel's work in particular (there will be a future podcast on that!), I realize that a lot of my images are about beauty, including beautiful patterns. Should they be about story? So is it about beauty versus story or pattern versus content?
