About the Book
We never really look at and appreciate what is in our own neighborhood because we think that it is nothing special and we know it already. We see it everyday. We give it a name. We file it away and we never look searchingly at it ever again.
We need to forget the names that we have placed on the world. It's time to see with fresh eyes.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Fine Art Photography
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 40 - Publish Date: Mar 22, 2009
- Keywords waterfall, leaf, water, leaves, seeing, forest, aesthetics, nature, environment, veiblefetzer
About the Creator
I photograph by feel rather than by technique. I see the early morning sun lighting the wispy tops of weeds and something sticks in my mind. I walk through the house and see my son’s toys strewn haphazardly on the floor - another something. It happens again when I walk along a windy lake shore and see the grey water swirling over dark rocks; another something sticks in my head. These somethings aren’t images yet. I can’t tell you what they look like. I can only tell you what they feel like. They feel like warm sunshine on closed eyelids. They feel like playing. They feel like thinking. I let these somethings float around in my head for days or sometimes weeks. I often pass by the same thing day after day just looking and thinking. I imagine the light falling. I imagine the shadows. When I sense that it's time, I grab my camera and start searching for photographs that feel the same as the somethings inside my head.