Archive for the ‘seeing’ Category

Out(bound) and about

Friday, December 11th, 2009

I haven’t posted anything here in some time. Though I do have a few thoughts for this website in the pipeline, I want to inform my six or seven daily visitors (you are dearly prized) that I am also up to a thing or two elsewhere.
What then, you ask? KCFreePress.com
As of Wednesday—when the site launched—I [...]

El Niño Supine

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

At night, the walk between the house and my studio entails an arm outstretched, waving for spider webs, for shrubs I have misplaced, for a door handle and its key. In those ten meters of cautious and mild wonder, loose thoughts escape me like water in a shallow tray. Out of a need to believe [...]

Monday, June 29th, 2009

“Writing about photographs is a risk. The first sign of a good photograph is that it makes you want to say something about it. The second sign is that it makes whatever you say seem inadequate. The best photographs entice commentary then demean it, stimulating reaction and then cutting it off, producing noise only to [...]

Beginning with good and bad

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

I think it takes courage on the part of a photographer, or his or her editor, to realize that though the originating concept may have been intriguing, the proper results never came. That would of course mean spending money, and time, and capital (these are important people being photographed after all), and still choosing to discard the project once its flaws were apparent.

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