Category: Interlude

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It’s The Start of Another Great Week

I’ll be cranking up the zero turn mower and the weed-eater later in the day to knock down the tall stuff that has popped up around the farm. I know you working stiffs will be doing the same thing (albeit with wrenches, keyboards, and hand trucks) at sundry work spaces across the country.

Y’all have a great day. Keep the sun in your face and the wind at your back.

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My Wayward Ways

Appreciate your patience while I break away from the keyboard to do farm and garden chores. Got bunches done yesterday and today. I did manage to put up more Jap-a-leno’s and now have a respectable store of salsa on the shelf.

So I hear that Jeff has bit the dust. While it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy, I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the federal investigation now gets shit-canned.

Sorry to report that I used ‘drop caps’ for the first time on this site for the sole purpose of placing the word ‘ASS’ in big capital letters ! Y’all enjoy the balance of the weekend.

Garry

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Horizontal Slewing

There’s an interesting series by Jean Michel at Eye of Photography that he titles ‘Directional Fuzziness ‘ Worth a peek if you’re into post processing.

Personally I think that he could have done a better job in framing the subject, as it seems that he always placed it in the center (or near center) of the frame.

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Unreconstructed South

Southern Pride.

There is a huge difference between how folk are raised in some portions of the country than in other parts: Urban vs rural, north vs south, conservative vs liberal. While this video was composed in the Carolina’s (and it shows) , you’ll find the same mindset from the east coast through Texas and everywhere south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

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A Compelling Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Some artists have an ‘eye’ for subjects and compositions that evoke a complex blend of emotion, curiosity, and thoughtfulness. I believe the Frenchman nailed it with this shot in 1948 in Kashmir. Adding to the complexity of the scene is Kashmir was a war zone at the time.

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A Friday Wind-Down Tune

A flush of memories from these visuals. I’ve been through Monument Valley and the surrounding areas many times. As a child dad would travel through there annually from Fort Ord to visit our family in Ozark Mo. Later I would travel there several times on motorbikes. The first was in ’79 on a ’74 Sportster, in 2004 and again 2005 on a ’03 Road King, and finally in 2011 on the ’10 Electra Glide.

Hope you enjoy !

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Thoughts on a Compilation (or Two)

The ‘Eye of the Photographer’ is showcasing some of the work produced by Michael Ackerman today. Two of works they’ve posted caught my eye. Not so much for any single item in the photo, but rather for the way they were patched together to produce a feeling or mood that any one of them could not evoke standing on their own. In the one above I particularly like the way that he both blurred the subjects (if they could be called that) and darkened around the edges. Both techniques, combined with the way they are organized, is compelling.

In the set below, he used some of the same techniques, but the added both the motion evident in each individual photo along and with a seaming random edging. I can almost see the composition below in the waiting room or board room of a professional office.

Black and white photography continues to be the most challenging and rewarding way to capture images. Michael’s work can be found here