San Francisco is one of my favorite cities for photography. I was there for the Heart Rhythm Society meeting and took every opportunity I could to go for walks.
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cloudy day in boulder
Not quite Ansel Adams but it is fun taking pictures in Boulder!
ansel adams – early photos
An excellent Ansel Adams retrospective at the Longmont museum. So inspiring! Many viewers are familiar with the Adams’ heroic, high-contrast prints from the 1970s. Much less well known are the intimate prints that the artist crafted earlier in his career. Ansel Adams: Early Works focuses on these masterful small prints from the 1920s into the…
a thousand crossings – sally mann
Sally Mann is one of the pre-eminent photographers of the 20th century. This book is based on a Sally Mann exhibition that explores her photographs of family, landscapes, race relations and death/decay. The book starts with John Glenday’s poem “Landscape with Flying Man” I read about him that was given wings.His father fixed those wings…
walks in boulder, colorado
Today was a great day to go walking in Boulder. 2 walks – morning and afternoon! “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky” — Rabindranath Tagore “To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are…
the lines of my hand – robert frank
A sad retrospective on the work and life of Robert Frank, one of my favorite photographers. Unlike “Americans” which is an uplifting and intriguing collection, this book draws you in and leaves you depressed at the end. I think the photographs parallel the difficulties he had in his life with the deaths of his daughter…
leonardo da vinci
Excellent exhibition about this original renaissance man at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Why is it that in the 1500s there were a lot more of these superhumans than there are today. 2 causes come to mind – specialization and lack of boredom. We have become too specialized in today’s society “an expert…
dog walking in boulder
Boulder, Colorado is a great place to walk. In the 1960s, several forward thinking people established a greenbelt around Boulder – also called Open Space. Boulder is a great place to walk your dog off leash if you are a Boulder resident and have a “voice and sight” tag for your dog. Here are some…
street photography in france 2018
France is a great place to photograph people. 2 reasons – first the people are very colorful and often fashionable, the second and more important reason – I don’t speak French. I would just gesture and ask them if I could “make a portrait” (as Eric Kim says) of them. If they cussed me out,…
photography books
Looked through some interesting photo books this weekend. 3 of my favorites are: Koudelka Koudelka – Gypsies Looking In – Robert Frank’s The Americans Some quotes from Robert Frank: What you reject ….. is just as important. When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want…