in a possibly weak and exhausted moment i wrote the "rawhide" piece below this evening…i am travel weary …. but a bit earlier, i did check the comments under the "beach bum" story, and i did write something there which i hope you will take the time to read… i would have posted it as …
ever think much about rawhide?? me neither….at least not until i shared a taxi with a Norwegian rawhide entrepreneur… this was after our plane, half full of Mormon missionaries from salt lake city, was diverted to dallas after first being diverted to tulsa because of severe storms…. and this was soon to be my second …
it happens every time…..that is, every time i go to the beach to relax …after two weeks or so of t-shirts and barefeet and jealously watching pelicans magic flight as they skim the faces of the waves, i always make the "decision" to "give it all up" and move to the beach…. after all, my …
oh, that empty feeling…..a blank slate…..past accomplishments are but a background blur….new commission, new assignment…..it is always "a mountain to climb" to even get to this state of "nothingness"…the state of being you are in when you actually get a "commission" and then…and then…and then…now what do i do??? the old adage "sometimes you get …
now is the time……i just sense it…..the most amazing summer storm is just rolling through right now 6:30am my time….inspirational!! great light , but the whole family is asleep , so i was forced to shoot one of my rare "landscapes"…but, it is not the storm that i am talking about.. everything in life is …
this afternoon i had a "crazy" idea….i get crazy ideas sometimes…spontaneous…ideas for me come from being happy and "playful" or they can come from being "down"….this one comes from the afternoon sun streaming through the window and lighting up the room….good light..happy…great light…. i am chatting with some friends and i literally jump up in …
i will fly back to new york tomorrow and will almost immediately launch into a very heavy schedule of beach vacation with my family…so, for two weeks my friends, i think it fair to say that there will be fewer postings here…. for one thing, i cannot imagine there would be of much interest to …
*the official Magnum website blog will undergo a revival with editor martin fuchs coming on board soonest….martin is the current author of "Journal of a Photographer", one of the most popular european photo blogs….martin will coordinate stories with all Magnum photographers and plans lively discussions to totally make our blog user friendly and fresh….. *as …
i suppose it is not so unlikely that I would , quite by accident , run into martin parr at the airport in London yesterday…after all, we were both headed for the Arles Photo Festival… However, it was quite fortuitous to share an exit row seat (more leg room) for the hour and a half …
all of us wrestle a bit with experimentation…..when i see a student portfolio with too many different styles of photography in it, i invariably suggest that they stick to one thing…one theme…one style…jumping around from one thing to another too quickly usually connotes no personal development…..and yet, perhaps there does come a time in a …
