Hi Jim, I really enjoyed meeting you and your wife at the Krappy Kamera opening. My husband and I had a blast in New York and the gallery opening was a highlight! BTW I love this image. Its a keeper. Seems like so often photographers(myself included) photograph nouns. There are alot of photos of things and stuff out there. This image is more of a verb. From a viewer's perspective it is not just a 50 something year old guy out standing in the woods. To me it speaks of emotion, possibly solitude. This image is poetic.
It's a sad fact of life that I can recite line after line of dialogue from the films "This is Spinal Tap" and "Airplane!". But next to those fabulously funny quotes, my favorite bit of dialogue is from a late 1950's film that I have never seen.
In the film "Funny Face", Audrey Hepburn, as a fashion model, says to Fred Astaire, playing the part of a fashion photographer, "Trees are beautiful. Why don't you photograph trees?"
Astaire responds, "I do what I do for a living. It has to do with supply and demand. You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees."
Astaire's quote still rings true today. For me, the supply and demand part involves sitting in front of a computer most days doing post-production and retouching on very hi-res digital photographic files generated by some pretty talented professional photographers.
But in my spare time, I take a lot of photos of trees and such with very low-tech plastic "toy" film cameras, like Holgas and various Diana clones.
And Fred Astaire is correct more than fifty years later.
There still isn't much of a demand for pictures of trees.
Really great image! Love it! I can't even put my finger on exactly why this image has me staring at it.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Andrew!
ReplyDeleteHi Jim,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed meeting you and your wife at the Krappy Kamera opening. My husband and I had a blast in New York and the gallery opening was a highlight!
BTW I love this image. Its a keeper. Seems like so often photographers(myself included) photograph nouns. There are alot of photos of things and stuff out there. This image is more of a verb. From a viewer's perspective it is not just a 50 something year old guy out standing in the woods. To me it speaks of emotion, possibly solitude. This image is poetic.
Gorgeous shot JIm! Just added your link to my blog also. It was a pleasure to meet you in NYC.
ReplyDeleteThanks Carol and Gary!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure meeting you both.
So happy to stumble upon your blog just now. I'm adding your link to mine! Beautiful work, sir.
ReplyDeleteThanks Steph! I have added your link as well.
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