The Cinema

 I love going to the movies but prices are steep. I get they are competing with the DVD, streaming video, libraries etc. But raising ticket price really only helps their rivals. Take a short term loss you blinkered greedheads! Ignore the MBA’s! Business is about people not balance sheets!

A Lesson About the Art

From Wikipedia - In February 1946 [Minor} White had the first of several meetings with photographer Alfred Stieglitz in New York. White knew of Stieglitz's deep understanding of photography from his various writings, and through their conversations White adopted much of Stieglitz's theory of equivalence, where the image stands for something other than the subject matter, and his use of sequencing pictorial imagery. At one of their meetings White wrote in his journal that he expressed his doubt that he was ready to become a serious photographer. He wrote that Stieglitz asked him "Have you ever been in love?" White answered "yes," and Stieglitz replied "Then you can photograph."

Floral Cosplay

Two Unrelated Photos

Epiphany (?)

I was at my local chain store looking around. There are a lot of self-help books there, including one that offers a Zen approach to cameras. But in order to really make a photo you have to think about what you are doing, which is that mindfulness I hear so much about.  So it's what I'm learning anyway, maybe?

Categories are irrelevant

IMHO it's all just photography. It doesn't matter what the subject is, or what you use to make the image. DSLR, instamatic, daguerreotype, speedgrafix, film camera, spy satellite, or what have you. Yes, there are variations on a theme but it's all just ways to capture sunlight in a box & freeze it into a form. Here are two more.

From Edward Weston

“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it.”-Edward Weston 

A Selection of B&W Street Shots, Mostly of the Annapolis Waterfront.

Corporate Arrogance

I really like the Apple brand. I use various Apple products. But they've gone a long way from "the computer for the rest of us." It's still mostly a Windows world, if only for the sake of cost. I find Apple's pricing arrogant & greedy. Yes, I understand they charge a lot, because of the quality of the technology & because people will pay. But this will not stand forever. Will Apple evolve & adjust their prices or will they take their text from the cupidity of the movie theatres who fight back against the ease of dvds & streaming videos which are better value than the rising prices of theatre tickets? Sooner or later, the $$ dictates where the computer goes.

A Selection of Ten