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Not So Fast!
Can’t you just hear the conversation….. Oh, you want some? Too slow! The expression is everything to a portrait; sometimes it’s the hardest part of the session. Just think of all the discussion about da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and her smile. Why is her smile so compelling? Psychologists to Scientists have attempted to explain why. I… Continue reading
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Water water everywhere.
From about a month ago when we had our last serious rain. Continue reading
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Sisters…
The farther apart they are the more they seem to communicate. It has been interesting noticing how the conversation has changed between the kids with our oldest of to school. The family of 3 months ago is gone, passed into the ages like crawling turns to walking. Not bad, mind you, just change which has… Continue reading
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955