VIEW IN MY ROOM
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I was shooting the bulbs/flowers that had once blossomed among some nasty cactus in the high desert in New Mexico. I began by shooting maces as I love to do. But my process is that once I begin, I get into a zone and only respond to what I'm seeing. I really don't 'see'. I don't say WOW! Look Marge, at 1:1 there's an Avenging Angel in the middle of a dead flower bulb! Let's get her!! It just doesn't work that way for me. I'm pretty unconscious. I'm moving, breathing hard, sweating, focusing, or racked out and moving in and out to be focused, depressing the shutter, bracketing, losing my balance. I didn't see this image until I was viewing the take in Adobe Bridge later that night. And of the 200 or so images of this plant, there were only about 12 frames. Sorry to go on about this. I'll only talk about process, you know. But my jaw dropped when I saw this image and the others. I did work it, just like I used to tell my students to work a subject, but I'll be damned if I was aware of her at the time. I do know that very early on in my shooting days in the mid-1970s, one of my spiritual mentors was Clarence John Laughlin.
Photography:Black & White on Paper
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Size:18 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
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First off I wouldn't have evolved this far as an artist without the deep friendship of two very special shooters...Chipp Jamison and Keith Williamson. And I wouldn't have understood anything about technique and 'seeing' without my longtime mentor and friend, Phil Zimmerman. It was suggested that I talk about what motivates me to That's always been difficult for me. I've always held to DH Lawrence's warning of 'Never Trust the Teller; Trust the Tale'. So here goes..When my camera and lens come up to my eye everything changes in me. My eye, brain, heart body and soul align. I become a part of. And it's a magical and glorious feeling...a physical rush as well as a spiritual one. My nose is crushed against my face; I realize I'm not breathing. All of me is concentrated on what I see through the viewfinder and flowing to that image. I see it; I feel it; my pulse is racing; I rapidly bracket (an old habit from my analog days) because I want the moment to last; and I know exactly what it's going to look like when I download it to Photoshop. I have this same experience whether the subject is rust on old cars, the Dunes, People, news events, my Mannequin, Landscapes, Water, or Flowers. And the best aspect of photography for me is that I get to experience all the joy of that one image over and over. There are a lot of images here and I keep posting more. I'm prolific. I'm a shooter and an artist. It's who I am. The images are as real and honest as I am. Enjoy!
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