“Our experience is governed by pictures.” Douglas Crimp said that. It’s something I came to realize when I eventually got into photography and one of the reasons I find photography such a compelling medium. When I was young, our library had these hard-bound books that contained historical issues of ...
As part of an altered book project I did a few years back, I glued pages together and then cut away the center of them so that I could make them into ‘frames’ for some of my photographs. It was an attempt to illustrate the book ‘Two Years Before the Mast’ by Richard Henry Dana ...
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my ...
Welcome to 2021! Can you handle it? The beauty in photography, or one of them for me at least, is that it provides an outlet. It also occupies the mind and can go a long way toward staying in the moment. When my wife was dealing with her cancers, I’d lean on photography as a ...
Well, winter is officially here. I guess. Traditionally, there have been a variety of ways to mark the start of the winter season here in Ontario. December 1st is the start of ‘meteorological’ winter – the months of December, January, and February marking the frigid quarter of the year. December 21st of ...