Making The Most Of Each Moment
Happy October! I believe October may be my favorite month. It has seemed that way most of my life. There may be many reasons reaching way back to my childhood.
Happy October! I believe October may be my favorite month. It has seemed that way most of my life. There may be many reasons reaching way back to my childhood.
Photography by it's shear nature seems to struggle in it's distinguishing of these two counter approaches. In the beginning a photograph had but one purpose, to document. This could be a specific time, event, or moment but the purpose was purely documentation. This great grandfather mindset of photography holds firmly to this day. Though it is safe to say the vast majority now expect a photograph to be something more than just a documentary thing. At what point does a photograph cease being documentary and start being subjective? When indeed.
In May of this year I was contacted by the Director of the Kansas Museum of History about a new display they were going to install in the main entry area of the gallery. They were looking for 7 images that depicted Kansas and Kansas history to be used as a wall mural. 6 of these images would be displayed in a postcard format over a main wall mural. The wall mural was to be 38 feet wide by 12 feet high and span a 3 angled wall!
I came across a saying yesterday that seemed to make a good deal of sense to me at the present time. It was actually from a fortune cookie. "Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."
Can you believe it! After a week I have this site back on the world wide web! I first want to say thank you to all who have checked here during the last week and have still decided to come back and check things out [...]
It seems to be everywhere but eludes me in how to properly capture it.