August 31, 2012

 

A photograph can only be taken in the now. Once that moment has past the image one see's is a thing of the past. It has become history, something that has happened only once and will never happen again.

 

Additionally, if a photograph should be viewed and appreciated on its own merits what value is a title?

 

For the above reason I've stopped making up descriptive names or titles for my photographs. Instead I'll share the date and time the image was recorded.

 

Oct 29, 2011

Off to the Hill Country in the RV for thecoming week. Staying in Fredericksburg with day trips from there.

 

March 15, 2011

I'll be on hiatus for a while. I seem to have lost connection with my craft and will go off in search of it.

Ziggy

 

Please Read this First:

 

Please don't think me rude, but I find these large group icons and images posted within comments distastful. Particularly those with no personal input from the person sending it. To my old eyes they make it difficult to read the real comments that are often hidden because the garish icons take up so much space.

 

I appreciate invites as well as comments, and will respond if you take time to share your very own thoughts. The things you share help others to improve, a pretty icon with someone else's words (a platitude) does not. If you don't, neither will I.

 

Therefore, posting an icon with no personal comment will get that comment/icon deleted.

 

Thank you.

 

Ziggy

 

I submitted a series of pictures to a museum for a show of area photographers called "Short Exposure" Along with the pictures we were required to submit an artist's statement. Even after reading mine, my work was accepted.

Go figure!

 

Artist's Statement.

 

"You will discover that if the artist could explain in words what he has made,

he would not have had to create it."

Alfred Stieglitz.

 

I'm not an artist, I'm a craftsman!

If another sees art in my pictures something from the subject has touched a chord within them.

 

I can no more tell you what inspires me to photograph,

than I can explain where wind comes from.

Something about or within what I see stimulates an impression within me that causes my

attempt to record that vision. Later, through the application of my craft, I attempt to produce

a visual record of what my mind visualized.

My pictures aren't reality, they are a representation of what I saw and visualized.

Two dimensional, not three.

 

I do not have an agenda, and do not use my pictures to further one.

I make my pictures to please myself. I suspect this to be true for all we do.

I craft my pictures to please myself alone. Then, if I'm pleased with the result,

I share the result of that craft with others.

I'll admit to taking pleasure when another states enjoyment at the result,

but still the bottom line is I did it for me.

 

It's up to others to say if what I've done is art.

For me. there's only craft.

  

I've been gifted with sight.

I've had my cameras since seventeen.

The lens is a part of my seeing.

I photograph.

 

I've learned craft from others.

I keep learning more.

Through craft I make pictures.

 

Ziggy