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Across time and the globe when making pictures artists have considered where to place the light. This isn’t only because the light attracts our maximal attention, nor only because it offers a goal, a destination for our mind’s eye, but … Continued
Intimacy implies proximity in relationships. A sense of private confidentiality thrives in intimate relationships. Building an intimate relationship with nature can begin by getting close to your subject. In the 18th and 19th century landscape painters found intimacy with nature … Continued
Let’s go for a walk. We’ll start in Brooklyn Heights where we find and climb a set of steep steps up to the walkway across the Brooklyn Bridge. I once lived in Brooklyn Heights near the base of that Bridge. … Continued
We have so many tools to help us create ambiguity. Photographs can be manipulated in the camera and, in software and, in the printer. After printing an image I occasionally overprint it with another but, dissimilar image. I expect a … Continued
We begin by learning how to see, hear, speak, touch, and walk. None of this is automatic. If we are blindfolded for a period of time after birth our visual cortex will not fully develop. If we have an untreated … Continued
First, let’s not confuse transparency with translucence. A transparent layer is an invisible layer like a clean window pane. A translucent layer offers varying degrees of transparency from barely noticeable to an almost imperceptible thin tint of color. This tinted … Continued