her palette
My palette, light / emotion.
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From the monthly archives:
July 2009
her palette
My palette, light / emotion.
Self Portrait with film.
“I get the urge for going but I never seem to go
And I get the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown And summertime is falling down and winter’s moving in”Joni Mitchell
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Frivolity
Not Tony Lamas Boots but really who’s looking at the boots?
Eyes and the Window
Yesterday I had a window to the world with subjects to reflect my thoughts. ArtSpace Willimantic with Dancers.
Art Deco Block Glass,
past and present the lines are blurred,
dancers in costume,
cowboy boots absurd,
creating on a stage so small,
but the message is heard.
past and present the lines are blurred,
dancers in costume,
cowboy boots absurd,
creating on a stage so small,
but the message is heard.
enjoy pjc
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Choice Who’s?
Choice. Say it ……. and let it linger there alone in the air. What’s it mean?
Just hear the word alone. What comes to mind?
Choice and the creative process. The picture you just took involves choice, first, you liked what you saw so you chose to shoot it. Then there is film, fast-slow? B+W or color? Negs or transparencies? Exposure, shutter speed, aperture and their relationship to depth of field? Lens, wide, tele, normal, what’s that? Light, filters, angle of view to name a few.
The most important choice is to make all the choices! Every picture has been taken before, every lighting design, print process all done before, what separates your image is the imprint of your soul on the photograph. The more choices you make the more the photograph is you/yours!
In 1971 I chose to buy my first new Nikon F, two years later I chose to but a 1969 F used. The 1971 I later sold in a slow period. The ‘ 69 I still use almost daily. What a concept that something would last a lifetime. I remember my first up-grade I was in New Hampshire on vacation with my parents and there it was on the side of the road. I sign saying up-grade so up the steep incline we went and the only cost was the extra gas {around .20$ a gal} that the old Studebaker used, and that was refunded on the down-grade as we coasted down the other side.
Up-grade doesn’t quite hang there in the air with the panache of “choice?” What’s it mean? Just hear the word alone. What comes to mind?
In another thread Tom just realized that old negatives and prints from 65years ago were of very high quality, as good as today maybe. Sixty five years without an upgrade wow. Now we have, in the last decade learned so much that every six months we have so much new technology that we have to upgrade and even more amazing all this new knowledge seems to coincide with Christmas and spring weddings and graduations. Choice who’s? Well it is time for me to flip the record on the turntable. enjoy pjc
Originally written for a column on Traditional Photographic Art about five years ago. In that time “You” have chosen to upgrade your diggie and software 3.33 times. Or was it Ashton Kutcher and all that TV cleavage that made your choice? enjoy pjc
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Linocut by Sarah Harford