i am not a cat person….never had a cat as a pet…never wanted a cat…..i was always a dog man ….dogs were always happy to see me, followed me around…dogs responded to commands…..cats always just seemed aloof to me….now, i have a cat…..
on the fourth of july, a hot summer night, little Simone just showed up….my son Bryan and his love Michelle and i were sitting on my porch having a glass of wine and pretty much minding our own business , when along came little homeless Simone (sometimes Lulu) who just jumped into my lap….end of story…..or, should i say, beginning of story…..
now i am dealing with raccoon proof cat doors, dry food vs. wet food, auto feeding machines and worse, yes, AFFECTION…damn!! ….the last thing i need in my life is a cat….i do not have time for a cat….i travel too much to have a cat or any pet….but, now i have a cat….or, rather she has me….she now owns the place….runs the show….wants affection sometimes, and shuns it other times….does what she wants when she wants to do it and my job is just making sure she is happy …and i now trip all over myself to make sure this is so…..hmmmmm….
it is always the unexpected in our lives which seems to govern….all of us work so hard to plan plan plan and then , well, the “plan” becomes whatever “just happened” with perhaps a very slight twinge of the light of original agenda….most of us i think then take whatever circumstances evolved and then turn it into our “plan” as if we had thought of it all along….pure justification or acceptance or , well, what else can we do???
certainly there must be adjustments in our creative spirit as well…if we all did what we started out to do, then i am sure that the results would be a whole lot less exciting then if serendipity rules…..yet, we also know from experience that not having any kind of plan in the beginning usually leads to no action at all…so, strange as it seems, we need a plan or a thought or an idea at the beginning that we know surely with change as we move forward…we should not be surprised that we become surprised with what actually happens , yet this is the ultimate surprise!!
perhaps we all have different proportions of planning vs. serendipity……and , of course, this is all related to being able to FINISH what we start out to do…i think many of us do not finish what we start because a Simone shows up….changes the equation….priorities get scrambled……what we want today, may not be what we want tomorrow….
i do spend a lot of time with young ambitious photographers or photographers who are trying to make a mark….the single biggest difference i see between those who “do it” and those who do not is simply the ability to finish what one starts….
yes, of course, talent is a must…visual acuity, sensitivity, spacial awareness, timing, balance….but, given two equal talents, the one who can actually complete a body of work is the one who will rise….sounds simple, but it is the most complex compound of all things facing any creative person….i see it over and over with photographers i mentor…..i have fought this with myself all along….i suspect a solid 80% of what i start goes unfinished….folks know of the other 20%, but i coulda shoulda woulda done more….blame it on Simone??
what about you?? do you finish most things, or sooner rather than later give it up?? be honest…we are all in this together…
ok, while you take on this question, i have to go feed the cat…..no joke…she is an hour away , and i am going to go feed her instead of taking a picture….woe is me….
HERVE…
yes, you are quite right…what you see in the daily newspapers etc is still often Family of Man material….and the mass audience is , as you say, not concerned by the various “movements” in the world of photography…i was only speaking on the acceptance thereof by the curators at MOMA and the like minded gallery crowd, publishers etc…what you see in the daily grind is certainly not what you would see in the finer books and/or exhibitions which are often quite influenced by what is accepted by MOMA, the Whitney, Tate, etc ..
cheers, david
BOB…
brilliant post….thank you…certainly you have paraphrased in essence Shelley’s Ozymandias …
you wrote…”Sometimes when I read or listen to people speak of projects, of wealth, of ‘accomplishing something’, of finishing, of producing something, of ambition and goals and desires of fame and of knowledge and of meaning and of growing and of becoming something of making ones way in the world of reaching some destination of making photographs of making books of garnering recognition, i feel bereft and sad.”
just to set the record straight, none of these motives of which you speak are motives we have discussed here on Burn nor did i mention any of those things in my post…..there has been not one word ever from me about “fame, wealth, accomplishment, or recognition”….those may be words or thoughts in your head, but not in mine nor in any conversation i have started here…
however, i do see your point if it is directed towards “false motivation” in general and would agree with it wholeheartedly….nevertheless, the act of creativity or specifically of creating a body of work which “holds” should not be made to seem somehow lessened because in fact someone finished what they started….
just as you created the piece you just wrote, got it down on paper, and finished it with cerebral aplomb is all i have ever meant by “finishing”…
your collected writing has value….
if i were to take all of your pieces here and put them in one place, that would indeed be a body of work…of value….to have this work stitched together between two hard covers and to bring this process to fruition would not mean that you were seeking “fame , wealth, accomplishment, or recognition”…it would simply mean that you finalized the process…
it would simply mean that your words, which will yes eventually blow away in the wind and covered with sand as per Shelley, will for some time have a value to those who read them…and they will represent knowledge passed on which is the heart of the human condition….but, if nobody reads them, in theory they never existed…
i suspect that all truly creative people do not have an “end game” in mind when they are in the act of creation..however, in today’s heavy marketing of what we do as photographers, one can easily become lost in the vagaries of intention…hence the value in what you just wrote…i imagine that it is all a matter of perspective and in knowing what in our lives serves one purpose and what serves another and in keeping the lines clear…
one cannot get in a car and drive down the street to buy a sandwich without crossing at least 3 “lines” of environmental abuse and succumb to an ad mans marketing campaign etc etc…so each day we justify so so many things that we have no choice but to do…but, my point is that i think photography and the essence of creation can indeed be uplifting and does not have to go down the dark path ….
one cannot assume that because someone “finishes” that they have the negative motives which spurned your text and has left you “sad and bereft”….
clearing your head psychologically of all that “stuff” you had in your storage locker in Florida sounds likes a catharsis for you…and yes yes it would all turn into dust someday anyway, but are you sure that at some point in your life one of those books or negatives or prints or whatever would not have served some value for either your wife and son or for some student of your son 40 years from now???
well, that is a personal decision of course….just playing devil’s advocate a bit…Bob, you are an avid reader and student of every photographer who has ever done anything…simply put, had those writers and photographers you have studied so carefully not “finished” something, you would not have read their words nor seen their pictures…
my dog eared copy of Roland Barthes (a finisher for sure) “Camera Lucida” is in a card board box in a storage locker right now waiting to be unpacked…my temptation is to do what you have done and just jettison the whole storage facility…it is so full of “stuff” i will never never deal with…but, maybe just maybe there is a nugget in there that will rise to top of the pile and will be of value to someone somehow someday….certainly a storage facility of past work does not necessarily mean it is a psychological weight that needs to be cleared….yet, if this was a catharsis for you , then so be it….
again, many thanks for your story and for your thoughts…you always take us to new territory and into new ways of thinking about life and photography….i fully intend to work with you on getting your work , both photographic and literary, into print…it deserves a place….i am sure neither of us will be motivated by anything other than the desire to see something in print which you have created which is quite uniquely Bob Black…its net value may or may not be determined by others, but you Bob will have done all you can do and this is its own reward…and both of us will have to finish what we start….
cheers, david
“clearing your head psychologically of all that “stuff” you had in your storage locker in Florida sounds likes a catharsis for you…and yes yes it would all turn into dust someday anyway, but are you sure that at some point in your life one of those books or negatives or prints or whatever would not have served some value for either your wife and son or for some student of your son 40 years from now???”
That could happen, but all that baggage tends to prevent us from living in the present (which should be our goal), so we live in the past with a storage locker full of stuff we will never look at and in the future because “maybe” some of that stuff might have value to someone in another lifetime.
We aren’t obligated by the past or to the future.
slightly off topic, but if anyone is interested i collaborate with some mates on a photography blog called insig.ht. i’ve just started a topic for discussion called “Has the era of the “iconic image” passed?” that might interest some of you.
http://insig.ht/2009/08/has-the-era-of-the-iconic-image-passed/
cheers
ben
bob,
Wow! Long as usual, but so true.
Regarding “success” I think we have to aim high. If we don’t we’ll never get anywhere. The danger is when goals becomes more important than the act of photographing. If a photographer think that the goals are more important then the act of photography I think that it becomes very obvious.
Cheers
David
You probably not agree with me but I think there is two most important things for people who want “make a mark”; firstly it is a talent as a base for everything what need creation and second it is relations with people. We are nothing without other people. It is not important how many things you finished but how you can cooperate with people around. I know many talented persons who are hardworking, patient and persevering but they don’t know how to find themself in social world… and they always disappear. They works hard and then works hard and they have nothing but hard work at last.
If you don’t know how talk with people, how made them useful and helpful you will never get the mark.
and of course a piece of good luck help.
for me it’s all about relations.
it is my oppinion.
DAVID :)))
gotta run, and wont will up too much space now, but thanks so much for the words and reply…we are on the same page :)))…none of my thoughts were meant as antithesis to your post :)))…i’d wanted to write something for 1 week answering your questions to us, and then all this stuff happened this week, with finalizing the asian project, calling my dad to dump the storage, the silence, the nonstop shooting, the decision to not hold on to all those things and than last night shooting, and returning home, and just pouring out: serendipity :))))
and by the way, no shit, last night after i’d written the post, i sat out on the front porch and a tabby walked up to me in the dark (at first i thought it was a raccoon at was startled shitless), and he jumped onto my lap, prrrrrrrrrrrrrr, tail perpendicular….weird…simone’s cousin?? ;)))
more next week, thanks for your own long song :))
running
hugs
bob
p.s. about finishing :)))….yes, i try try to finish stuff, though most of everything we finish never really gets finished, does it…it’s kinda of the same thing….just a different name….funny, cause it took me (actually until i was married) to be able to not finish a book…i used to finish, even if i hated or was board or couldnt get it, ’cause i felt guilty for being unable to finish reading someone else had written/sweated over…now, though i usually finish everything, i realize that it’s ok…(im sure most people never finish my writing or bones ;)) or invisible cities) ;)))…and im cool with that….i just realized that, and it took me 6 1/2 years to get to this place, that i dont need the books anymore, cause they are inside me, and they’re just paper, the books themselves are in my head and heart….and it is or rather has been important for me to let go of the old albums, the old negatives (remember the story i wrote here about my grandmother, after she had died, my father and brother had to go through 10′s of 1,000′s of her slides, and only kept a 4 boxes…and guess what, those slides are sitting in my father’s own storage ;)))…and when he dies, i’ll have to decide what to do (probably keep them and use them for something i have in mind)…but, for me, it is just so important to be clear in my head and in my life:
to value the right thing….to continue to make work, to continue to live as well as i can, i have to be here, in the moment, of this moment, fully…and for me with photo projects, i think being able to finish means not that something is done (or perfected) but that it’s become time to shift tact….a lesson my dad taught about sailing, cant stay in the same line of wind, or you’ll end up in chains (meaning not moving forward or with wind in your sails) :))))…
i’ll show u asian stuff in a few months, now i need to give it some time to breathe ;)))..
running
b
Bob — Thanks for writing this and sharing it here. It is so easy to be distracted by the ephemera of our daily lives it really takes practice, focus and mindfulness to be truly connect to the sublime in every moment.
It’s always there, one just has to be willing to search…
Reading your post I was reminded of a poem I love and think about often.
Cheers,
Adam
The Vacation
by Wendell Berry
Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.
He went flying down the river in his boat
with his video camera to his eye, making
a moving picture of the moving river
upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly
toward the end of his vacation. He showed
his vacation to his camera, which pictured it,
preserving it forever: the river, the trees,
the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat
behind which he stood with his camera
preserving his vacation even as he was having it
so that after he had had it he would still
have it. It would be there. With a flick
of a switch, there it would be. But he
would not be in it. He would never be in it.
what you see in the daily grind is certainly not what you would see in the finer books and/or exhibitions which are often quite influenced by what is accepted by MOMA, the Whitney, Tate, etc ..
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I think one difference with trends and periods in other arts, that become irrelevant, or part of history, once the new styles/visions arrive, is that this stance in photography is still quite relevant, and its popularity is attested by living photographers, not just dead ones.
Not to mention that daily/mass grind, in a medium as ubiquitous and ever actual, still speaks of Photography AS IT HAPPENS in the 21st century, as much as the newest phases. That too, is a bit different from other arts, though movie making and popular music might catch a berth on that train.
Oh yes: Trying to make a mark and making a mark are 2 different things. The biggest mark is not always done by the ones trying.
David, about movements.
Maybe ask ourselves what are they moving? And what relevance in it? Or for how long?
It is only fair that having come against, not along, and not just after, modernism and before, that we now start to apply to post-modernism (or whatever one wishes to call it) the same armory.
DAH – Sorry for my delayed response about the iPhone camera – how are you liking it? it has a different feel to it i think. Really simple actually…
Here are some of the “tricks” I’ve been doing – When I need a super closeup for anything – I use a set of diaptor lenses I bought a while back for a few dollars from a discount tool store. depending how much needs to be focused – thats unusual though.
to color edit – I use a free app called Mill colour its made by this company – http://www.the-mill.com/
It’s simple to use – you can incramentally adjust saturation, gamma, lift, and gain – they usually make software for movies I guess? so perhaps some of these terms (lift and gain) are from that?
Also – there is a noticeable and sometimes irritating delay between pushing the shutter and the shot being taken – but it makes for a good moment to pop a little flash. I use my nikon SB800 and pop the manual button to fill in or to enhance some of the existing light since it doesn’t seem to have much latitude to work with…
So what are you doing with the images you shoot? will you share some with us?
I would like to see how others are using this! Panos?? anyone else?
Adam :)))
I have always loved Berry’s poem: so simple and direct…and they always remind me of being a child and running with my brothers through the fields and corn field behind our home…and driving in the summer beneath light-tickled Georgian tree-held country roads….and he also, always reminds me of the last song from REM’s Fables of the Reconstruction…Wendell Gee….
and i can’t wait to see ur Boxing essay here :)))….
and a poem by Berry i always loved, :
In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: “How you been?”
He grins and looks at me.
“I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees.”
-Berry
and lastly, here is that song, for u…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcHORmlabYU
hugs
bob
That’s when Wendell Gee takes a tug
Upon the string that held the line of trees
Behind the house he lived in
He was reared to give respect
But somewhere down the line he chose
To whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows with me
He had a dream one night
That the tree had lost its middle
So he built a trunk of chicken wire
To try to hold it up
But the wire, the wire turned to lizard skin
And when he climbed inside
There wasn’t even time to say
Goodbye to Wendell Gee
So whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows with me
There wasn’t even time to say
Goodbye to Wendell Gee
So whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows with me
If the wind were colors
And if the air could speak
Then whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows
Wendel Gee–rem
Nicde Jonas Bendiksen video interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPMbpcrvkE
Another good video from The Canon Professional Network of Stephen Mayes managing director of VII:
Also, Jean Francois Leroy in Perpignan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4TQNxTOmzM&feature=related
this is THE most beautiful statement ever, to me. so many cats have jumped into my lap over the years. but, unlike you, i’ve always loved cats, especially strays. a kitten without a mother once caused me to stay an extra year in a country i’d intended to leave. if she and others had not found me, i would surely have moved on and, would perhaps have achieved one or two of the goals i set myself by now. but that IS the way it is, the way i am, just as you say… and i refuse to be hard on myself because i appear not to be achieving goals at the same pace as others or ‘keeping up’ with the insane pace of the 21st century… love interferes with my plans constantly – leads me into situations and locations unplanned. i’m not referring only to cats but to people and places i come across… and yet, i AM crying… for all the dreams and plans lost by falling in love with so many precious moments, people, places, as well as cats and dogs : )… thank you for this most beautiful statement. here’s to love, and life, and all the amazing different species on this planet in addition to cats, and dogs, and us (and, to hopefully achieving at least some of my goals in this lifetime!
love to one and all,
jenny : )
MARCIN…
of course, you are quite right….none of us live in a vacuum and without the help of others and interaction with others, our works can become quite isolated….some artists interact literally and others only touch the “outside” with the work itself..there is no one artistic personality…
HERVE…
your questions are good…i cannot possibly answer them of course…deciding what is relevant and what is not is just as subjective as are all of the topics here…suffice it to say from an art business perspective, and art is a business, that gallery owners and print collectors/investors , take their cue from the top museum curators…
BOB..
i never thought you were writing the antithesis of the post, but would not mind at all even if you did…….i was just tweaking the thought…i knew exactly where you were coming from, and as i said i “agree wholeheartedly”….this is the beauty of our discussions here….and the point of discourse overall…addenda to an original thought does not take away from that thought ….
peace, cheers, david
Davin,
Try one of these gadgets, good for rabid dogs. Not sure about Taxi Drivers though….
http://www.maplin.co.uk/searchtemplate.asp?criteria=DOG%20DETERRENT
Pete
ALL:
A fellow photojournalist is in need. Please read the story here http://www.the37thframe.org/?p=932
Thanks
Pete Davin could get himself a few cats, rub against them and hit the streets big time
NO TIME>>>>> well.. very little..
http://bophoto-mumblings.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-time-no-time.html
As you well know, David, few of my questions ask for answers…
Though if you could answer the mails I sent you, concerning your time in SF, for the September Family WS… ;-)
Imants, Think of the fun he could have with that !
I find these gadgets to be real useful even for mad monkeys. I always carry one if I go to India it keeps them away. I’ve had problems with monkeys trying to take the glasses off my face in certain places. Crafty little blighters I don’t trust them !
BOB,
that was deep, as is this:
That brings me back, Bob.
Pete,
The Mega Sonic Cat & Dog Repeller is looking very appealing! I may have to get one of those.
Also this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1Yp2S8Cws&feature=related
BOBus
hey .. found time and read your contribution..
smacked the head of the nail, you did.
:o)
d n family..
I WISH TO TELL YOU A STORY…
BY BOB BLACK
Damnit,after I read your ” book” BOBus I felt that we as humans despite all our “differences”…
we are so “ONE”…
Tonight , I Am Davidb, jenny lynn walker,Akaky, Adam…Herve…Jason……………
all of you…
What not to love!!!
P.S Dear Mr. Dellicson…you don’t need a repeller. You may need to “transform” into a more relaxed zone. If you want to come closer…You got to be assertive but relaxed….hmmmm…or maybe one Ursus in the berani can help :)))
VIVA and I LOVE YOU ALLLL
Civi
Well, getting back to “Familly of man”, that is what the Steichen was trying to tell us…after witnessing the horrors of WW11.
I’m a sentimentalist at heart. Did a wedding yesterday, and shed a tear at the sincere declaration of love between two middle aged people.
Still lovin’ my life, and Y’all.
I was just watching the Utube video of Mary-Ann Golon from Time magazine, talking about the magazine world, getting your stuff noticed, etc. It got me thinking about what it is we do.
25 years ago, I opened a portrait studio, after doing commercial, editorial, and audio visual work for a number of years.
In the portrait business, you have a very limited audience. It is restricted to the subjects friends and family. As opposed to an editorial audience, of tens, or hundreds of thousands of people. My clients will put their photograph on their wall, and look at it many times, every day. For many of them, especially older folks who have grown children and grandchildren, the portraits are un-believably precious. If their house catches fire, it will likely be one of the things they grab as they flee the flames.
If you get published in Time magazine, thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people will look at your photograph for a few seconds before turning the page. Then they will throw the magazine out when they are done with it. Maybe the photographs will have done their job and informed, changed attitudes, educated, entertainted, enriched.
Not sure where I’m going with this, but I guess I’m just thinking how much I love what we all do. I do love what I do.
And Mr.Gordon,
I love that you love what you do.
if you love what you do
it will show…sooner or later…
What not to love!!!
P.S Say hi to your mom too :)))
BOB.. that was a really revealing metaphor about while sailing you learnt that one has to change tact otherwise you’ll get stuck in a rut. Its necessary.
I also love the respect you feel about respecting another’s work and effort. And honouring your families heritage in the memories of film moments. But also, you know everythings an ebb and flow in moments and moods.
DAVID..
Another thought about your question, or another perspective, is that maybe nothing is really finished but rather little moments are incrementally finished, built upon. Like one single photo is a finished image within itself, then they can be gathered and grouped together in an essay or a book , and then over one’s life. Changing over time and circumstance. As far as more concrete bodies of work for professional purposes maybe what was finished ten years before may not be finished now or what seemed unfinished those years before seems much more relevant now.
I love this thought.. just going to read over some of older responses..
Gordon,
Enjoying your sentiment. Just had guests for the weekend… said they love our “pictures on the walls.” That was very sweet. They provide comfort. Remembrances.
(Though I wouldn’t mind being published in Time!)
(psssst…. civiiii!!)
(pssst…. kathieeeee?!!!!)
(i got me a magnetic wallllll!!)
(i got to tell y’all, it’s super grrreat!!)
(teehehehe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFr4w-yZLyY&feature=related
Surrealistic film, Anemic Cinema,1926
de’ja vue BOB
My Gracie,
I am so happy for your Success.
I think Tom Hyde was happy with his project…???
I put MAGNETIC PAINT but all the BURN photos are on my floor.
WHYYY, WHY meeeeee???
KATIEEEEEEEEEE
where are you???
BURNIANS …anemic cinema from Panos !!! ( hmmm… where do you find these links? )
Beautiful day, beautiful night… I WANNA HUG you ALL
Tam,tar,ra,rammmm
chika boom, boom, boom…
I am drinking cold beer with JIM !!! VIVA !!!
DAVID..
Just read your response to BOB and it seems you also think on the same line about finishing. It’s complexe and dynamic and subjective and never ever really done. But rather, its a process. A journey as BOB understands.
You’ve certainly got everyone thinking.. Brilliant!
GORDON…
yes, it is hard to beat a picture on a wall….the ultimate tribute for a photograph for whatever reason it hangs…either as a sentimental trigger or as a work of art….i think even the photographers who do make photographs for the mass media, where the original viewing of the photographs will be perhaps for a few seconds in a magazine, do not see that medium as the end game for their work…most are using the magazines as a way of earning a living and fully intend for the work aided by commission to have a life way beyond the flipping of a page…it is such a treasure to be fortunate enough to love what you do…and oftentimes it is more than love….most dedicated photographers i know need to do what they do…
most people WANT…some NEED…..
i always ask a photographer what they need to do rather than what they want to do….if they have no answer for this, then i must help them to dig deep for there is usually something buried inside which can be brought out with their work…this is no easy process for it involves uncovering all of the layers of getting through life sediment which holds many back..if the photographer is able to do this and get down down to the rich soil where creativity grows, then they will find what you already know…
KELLEY …
i have no idea how i will be able to travel and leave Simone unattended…i am about to find out this fall when i will be traveling a lot….friendly neighbors???
PETER….
of course there are little bits and pieces of unfinished essays or simply just the photographs one takes everyday for no particular purpose other than the pleasure of recording something which appealed at a particular moment…i.e. most of my work is totally random daily snapshooting…..so i was not writing about bodies of work for professional purposes…and you are quite right in thinking that what was important yesterday may not be important tomorrow and vice versa….the bits and pieces may in fact be the body of work in the long run…still the importance of these bits and pieces will not be realized unless the photographer decides these bits and pieces have a value and organizes them in such a way that shows the bits and pieces may have been more important all along then the long term intentional work….what i am awkwardly trying to say i suppose is that there is still no way around “finishing” as much as we all would love to figure out and justify otherwise…
cheers, david
HERVE…
sorry, i have not seen your emails….emailing me these days is just not a guarantee i will see it….it is a pain i know, but if you think i miss your email , please send twice…if i am away from email for a few days , i am lost forever….in any case, i will search now for yours and respond promptly….
10 mins later….ok, searched and found nothing recent from you except two singles submissions…try sending to: david@burnmagazine.org…….my other boxes must be full….
cheers, david
Hmmm, gallery news? Just thinking of it …
YOUNG TOM…
Burn gallery show??
we are working on it…
i think i wrote before that we will have at least two gallery events for Burn photographers this fall in New York at the kibbutz and another one at Photo Fest in Washington in november….we have offers for several different spaces for Burn print shows around the U.S.for 2010…
choosing the prints for these shows is our most formidable task ….Mike Courvoisier is with me all this week to discuss and plan for these Burn shows and our fall workshops, seminars, etc…
stay tuned amigo…we will let you know soonest when and how you need to submit your work…
cheers, david
Hi David,
You are absolutely right………The true artist cannot be so much disciplined, so much good executor of what plan he makes…….he must have strong emotion,impulse……There may be some rare evidence but most of the creative persons cannot be a very good plan maker.
Creation comes from breaking the rules and good plan making sometimes hinder to have some out track and outstanding shot.
Personally I try to make empty my mind and do my job as I like.
Though it is right a certain amount of discipline and plan making always helps, still it is hard to get a photographer who finishes all the job he started.
Its all about potential,tenacity,dedication,love and a bit luck to be a successful photographer.
Partha Pal
from Birbhum
DAVID
Now I can breathe easy because I have FINALLY completed my text for Falling Into Place! I’ve just returned from a writers retreat out in the country where all I did for three days and nights–except for scoots in the meadows and woods–was work on my text. I feel good about how it turned out. The four-page text focuses on the project itself and will be at the back of the book. The images will be first and will be shown with no captions.
I’d like for you to read the text and give me your feedback if possible. I’ve just emailed the Word document to you at david@burnmagazine.org under the subject heading “Patricia’s text.”
I have also added four new pics (you’ve already seen two of the four) and removed two from our earlier edit. You can see my final edit of photos for Falling Into Place by going to my website at
http://www.patricialaydorsey.com
and clicking on Falling Into Place under the Portfolios. David, I’d love to talk with you by phone in the next day or two.
ALL
If anyone is interested in reading my text for the Falling Into Place book, please email me and I’ll send you a copy. I’d appreciate receiving your feedback. My email is playdorsey@comcast.net
Patricia