If you’re lucky you’ll connect with another photomaker who becomes an acquaintance. If you’re really really lucky you’ll connect with a photomaker who becomes a friend – even though only a cyber friend - a bud whose image making tweaks a nerve that makes vibes ring - whose images flow on a photo wavelength that few e… Read more

If you’re lucky you’ll connect with another photomaker who becomes an acquaintance. If you’re really really lucky you’ll connect with a photomaker who becomes a friend – even though only a cyber friend - a bud whose image making tweaks a nerve that makes vibes ring - whose images flow on a photo wavelength that few ever travel. I’m one of the really really lucky. I’ve connected with DarkWing – a photomaker - friend - aka Darin. An Ansel Adams scenic tripod image – technically perfect and honed for hours in a darkroom - brings, “Oh that’s beautiful.” A Henri Cartier-Besson 35mm Leica image brings, “Oh what an extraordinary street scene “snap-shot.” An Avadon image brings, “Oh, that portrait is exceptional.” Then one sees an image made by DarkWing - and the vibes and imagination soar beyond the image. His images aren’t “scenic calendar pictures” like Adams’, or Cartier-Bresson snap shots of everyday “people street scenes”, or Avadon portraits. DarkWing’s images can’t neatly be categorized. His images capture fleeting moments that are everywhere - live and still - that go unseen by the rest of us. His images capture the ordinary but actually unordinary that the rest of us never “see” – or feel - until he captures them for us. When I look at a DarkWing photograph I have no simple conscious response – but instead the vibes and imagination come alive in the gut – as did his - and I know I’ve probably sensed the same vibes that ordered him to make the capture. And that is rare and exciting photography – for the maker and for the viewer. DarkWing's images aren’t easily defined. The gut of the viewer defines them – at least for this lucky viewer. DarkWing has found a way to express what he feels inside when he “sees”. And he does it with extraordinary intuition, gut feeling and timing – his camera is always close and ready. He’s one very unique and special photomaker.