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Last old black & white shot for a while. I remember - clearly - the circumstances of this one. I was in a public park with some friends; we had a picnic lunch, and were lying on the grass. Looking up I saw the pattern of tree branches and leaves, and reached for my camera. Simple. It was perhaps the first time I looked past the name of the thing and saw its graphic elements directly - a difficult trick to learn. All visual art consists of textures, lines, shapes, and colours, but when we attach labels to objects in our physical world, we have moved a step away from them. We are no longer seeing directly.

It reminds me of the day my father tried to show me how to draw a cat. I was very young and liked to draw. "No," he said, "that's not the way to draw a cat." And then he "taught" me how. He drew a large circle for the body, a smaller circle on top for the head, added a squiggly line for the tail, and so on with ears, eyes, whiskers, etc. - thus ruining my ability to draw cats. After that, instead of drawing a cat the way I saw and felt it, I was trying to please him (which ultimately didn't work out too well). It wasn't his fault; he had no idea about art.

Circling back to photography, if we look at a scene and think "sunset from the beach", we are far less likely to see beyond the cliché. We will fail to notice the way the red light is reflecting off the wet sand, or any of the sundry details that make the scene unique and different from every other sunset that has ever happened. Dropping the labels may help us see the textures and lines first, and - as a good photography teacher told me a few years later - "Don't worry, the content will be there!" You can always add the label afterward. And never let anyone tell you how to draw a cat or photograph a tree...

Photographed on Kodak Tri-X film (ISO 400) in Niagara Falls, Ontario (Canada); scanned from the original negative. I used a Pentax Spotmatic with Takumar 50mm f/1.4 lens. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1971 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

This is another version of the portrait I made to illustrate the Fortune's special about Steve Jobs.

(See this for details)

Originally made in December 2007 and corrected in February 2008 to include the latest Apple products like MacBook Air, iPod nano pink etc.

Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques.

Illustration: Tsevis Visual Design

Credit must go to Deanna Lowe @ Fortune magazine and the photographer (Corbis) of the original photo in which this mosaic is based.

(Best viewed large or printed).

All Apple Inc product imaged used courtesy by Apple Inc.

Argentine film archivist Fernando Peña discovered a full-length copy of “Metropolis” in 2008 in the archives of the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires. Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, the 2010 restoration is the definitive edition of the film, backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score.

“Metropolis” is known for its dazzling visual design and special effects. Lang’s vision of a technologically advanced, socially stratified urban dystopia, has influenced contemporary films like “Blade Runner” and “Star Wars.”

Full movie (2010 restoration): www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ_mcUz8hkQ

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I believe great architects are magician of visual design. They are capable to create different visual experiences for the visitors of a building by using the design elements in architecture.

I am still bitten by the abstract bug.

I visited the public library before the photo club meeting at Richmond Cultural Centre. I took the shot of stairs with my Fuji compact.

Happy weekend!