Wednesday, December 14, 2011

iPhone Images

                                               
                                                 
Veaux Carré Holiday
                                               
                                                       

Monday, December 5, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                         

iPhone Diary: 30 December 2010 (She Remembers Like It Was Yesterday)


                                        

Saturday, November 19, 2011

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                  
                                           
iPhone Diary: 25 September 2011 (Strong in the Wounded Places)
                                                  
                                                   

Thursday, October 27, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                       
                                                           
iPhone Diary: 12 March 2010 (Ice)
                                               
                                              

Saturday, October 22, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                
                                             
iPhone Diary: 9 October 2010 (Theologic Wars)
                                                   
Blind Men and the Elephant

It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind

The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!”

The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, “Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me ’tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!”

The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a snake!

The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
“What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain,” quoth he;
” ‘Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!”

The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: “E’en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!”

The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a rope!”

And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!

Moral
So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!

poem by John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887)
                                        
                                            

Friday, October 14, 2011

iPhone Images

                                                                  
                                                       
After Diego Rivera
                                                
                                                     

Friday, September 9, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                            
                                                                   
iPhone Diary: 12 March 2010 (Waiting)
                                                         
                                                               

Monday, August 22, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                      
                                                                  
iPhone Diary: 4 August 2011
                                                           
                                                                      

Saturday, July 30, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                              
                                                                   
iPhone Diary: 30 December 2010
                                                              
                                                                        

Thursday, June 30, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                             
                                                                    
iPhone Diary Series: 22 June 2011
                                                             
                                                                   

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                                     
iPhone Diary: 2 June 2011                                                              
                                                                                 
                                                                           

Thursday, April 28, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                      
                                                         
iPhone Diary: 25 April 2011
                                                       
                                                                    

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Images of Australia: South Coast

                                                         
                                                                       
Kangaroo Valley Sunrise, July 2010 (After Death, A Voice)
                                                                    
After Death A Voice Said

It will not be a life in time and space
Since spirit is timeless and spaceless,
Existing eternal, outside of time.
Within it exists the surrendered soul,
The energy that we claimed as ours,
The energy that will know and be known
As it always has been within us,
Aware of the oneness of everyone. 

--Henry Langhorne, In the Country of Rain: Selected and New Poems, 2009
                
Note: With appreciation to Barbara Crafton of The Almost Daily eMo from Geranium Farm.org for introducing me to Langhorne's poetry.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Images of Australia: Melbourne

                                                             
                                                                    
Scar Detail, July 2010 (Wounded Healer)
                                                                 
                                                                          
The sacrificial instinct is the deep recognition that something always has to die for something bigger to be born.  We started with human sacrifice (Abraham and Isaac), we moved to animal sacrifice (the ritual killing of the Passover lamb described in Exodus 12), and we gradually get closer to what really has to be sacrificed—our own beloved ego—as protected and beloved as a little household lamb!  We will all find endless disguises and excuses to avoid letting go of what really needs to die.  And it is not other humans (firstborn sons of Egyptians), animals (lambs or goats), or even “meat on Friday” that God wants or needs.  It is always our false self that has to be let go, which is going to die anyway.
                                                                  
    

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Images of Australia: Melbourne

                                                           
                                                             
Enterprize Landing, July 2010 (I Have Set My Face Like Flint)
                                                            
                                                               
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens--wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backward. The Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me is near. 
Isaiah 50:4-5 & 7-8a
                                 
                                    

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Images of Australia: South Coast

                                                               
                                                                    
Royal National Park Coast Walk, July 2010 (Falling Upward)
                                                                            
                                                                       

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Images of Australia: Blue Mountains

                                                         
                                                              
Katoomba Falls, July 2010 (Hanging by a Thread)
                                                                  
                                                                            
                              

Sunday, March 27, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                         
                                                                      
iPhone Diary: 12 March 2010 (Nothing Never Happens)
                                                                    
                                                                      

Friday, March 18, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                       
                                                                
iPhone Diary: 5 February 2011 (Hurry Sundown)
                                                                   
                                                                         

iPhone Diary challenges the referential nature of photography and explores the iPhone camera as a way of documenting a life. I title the images with the date they were made, rather than where they were made, because they are more about moments in time than about location or geography.

Some  iPhone Diary images, like the one above, have subtitles in parentheses. These words or phrases connect with the pictures emotionally or spiritually. For me, they have connotative rather than denotative meanings.

I do not crop iPhone Diary images, but print them full frame with a small border of white space. This disci­pline requires clarity at the moment of making the photograph. I deliberate about what I see and how to frame it so that others will be able to see it too.

Photographs fragment life. Like a diary of images, I have a story to go with each one. At the same time, perhaps the pictures also somehow transcend the particular. Maybe they evoke your stories, too?
                           

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                                             
                                                                                      
iPhone Diary: 7 March 2011
                                                                                
                                                                          

Saturday, February 19, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                                                                                                                                                 
iPhone Diary: 15 February 2010                                                                               
                                                                           
                                                                                  

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                          
                                                             
iPhone Diary: 24 February 2010
                                                              
                                                                     

 iPhone Diary: 24 February 2010 (Hiding in Plain Sight)
                                                    
                                                         

Sunday, January 30, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                              
                                                                     
iPhone Diary: 12 March 2010
                                                        
                                                             

Saturday, January 22, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                             
                                                           
iPhone Diary: 24 July 2009 (It's about what is real.)
                                                                    
                                                                       

Monday, January 10, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                              
                                                                 
iPhone Diary: 9 January 2011
                                                                      
                                                                           

Saturday, January 1, 2011

iPhone Diary Series

                                                               
                                                                      
 iPhone Diary: 1 January 2011