Photographs that I’ve taken ten years ago even now seem vivid. If an image is good, it is brought back to life by the feelings of the viewer.
Daido Moriyama
Category: thoughts
a thought
I take pictures every day. Besides being able to tie my own shoes, it’s about the only thing I know how to do…
finn
from wynn bullock
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, “This is real, too.”
Wynn Bullock
from ed ruscha
I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who’ve just got nothing to lose. You know, let’s kamikaze this thing – just throw themselves in it, devil may care.
Ed Ruscha
a fork in the road
Like the man said – when you come to a fork in the road, take it…
playing
For several years now I’ve taken pictures (I don’t ‘make’ photographs) with my phone. Mostly I shoot pretty straight, and mostly b/w. Sometimes though I like to experiment with other things like this NOMO wet plate camera.
There are any number of things I can play with. I can shoot straight. I can shoot with a wet plate look. I can play with instant cameras, and half-frame cameras, or disposable cameras or multi -exposure cameras. I can shoot high contrast b/w, or subdued color when I want to. Even garish carnival midway-like color, but I don’t want to do that.
I use Snapseed for any post processing I want to do. Generally it’s just minor tweaks to contrast and tonality and adding a little grain. But there are endless possibilities with it. Most of it I’ll seldom use, if ever, but it’s all available right here at my fingertips. Camera and darkroom right here in my hand. And the damn thing will slide right into my pocket. How cool is that?
from hunter s. thompson
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
Hunter S. Thompson
desert topographics 