The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions. The soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment – countless infinitesimals of pleasure and genial feelings Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 Time to break my blog-block with a new year blog post; it’s been a while. It’s the…
I look at this picture of Ollie leaping over the striated rockforms of the Maine coast and remember how content we all were that day. Sometimes I worry that by viewing the world through a viewfinder and a lens that I’m missing the real moments; that is why I have pitifully few pictures of birthdays,…
The Zulus have a beautiful way of greeting each other. ‘Sawu Bona’ ; literally, ‘I see you’. Even better comes the response; ‘Ngikhona’ ;’I am here’. I’m sure the Zulus would make great photographers. With the greeting and response comes instant connection and an invitation to a conversation, and that’s what photography is all about!…
What is photography, and why is it important? Let’s hold hands, sit in a circle and contemplate our navels together for a moment. I’m always interested to understand our motivation to photograph and be photographed; I suspect the reasons are myriad and varied, from the philanthropic to the self indulgent. On a global level, photography…
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