Thoughts on composition, learning from Ansel Adams

[Tin Can]

I believe photographers think they document reality and are 'straight' shooters. Perhaps even rational and scientific in approach and execution.

The complications of image making appeal to the technician. Like me.
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As I explore art trying to open my mind, I see Jungian archetypes.

In the morning, eyes wide open, full dark, my visualizations are striking in their reference to comic books, which I never spent much time with. Woke dreams.

Looking at our work posted here I see Rorschach blots. Dense woods of dark patterns.

Are we stuck in genetic memory?

My breakthrough art was Dragon sculpture. Where does that come from?

I have posted images of them.

[Jim Noel]

I delight in some modern classical, such as https://www.eighthblackbird.org/ which is best heard and seen live.

In a moment, I will look at today's NY Times magazine which has a photograph section without words and listen to the accompanying sound track posted here. The link also contains the images for those without today's paper.

A novelty?

Join me!

Thanks for this link Randy. Interesting and unusual.
Jim

[Tin Can]

Thanks for this link Randy. Interesting and unusual.
Jim

I thought they talked too much.

The sounds were good!

[Leszek Vogt]

........Are we stuck in genetic memory?....

I think it's all about soc learning. Many get stuck on icons, as if pop culture was the visual language per se.
Kind of oozing some sarcasm and "looking in from outside" - Savoy Brown (not much of a hit :>).

Les

[Tin Can]

........Are we stuck in genetic memory?....

I think it's all about soc learning. Many get stuck on icons, as if pop culture was the visual language per se.
Kind of oozing some sarcasm and "looking in from outside" - Savoy Brown (not much of a hit :>).

Les

Now listening to Savoy Brown for the first time in decades.

I will make a request for more at my local radio station. I donate. WDBX which is all I listen too. Anybody can have a show, they all do and it's 'all good'!

[Greg]

I think there is a tendency to over-analyze composition. Some of the geometric and mathematical overlays on images are too fanciful for words.

Reminds me of an incident that I experienced many years ago. It was at a Photography of New England show in Suffield, Connecticut. My photograph was chosen to be the first photograph you saw as you entered the Gallery. Image attached. At the show's opening, an art critic was talking about the photographs in the show. When he came to my photograph he said something like "The artist/photographer was trying to photograph life itself. The image in the photograph is a metaphor for life... It emerges from the ground, experiences the circularity of life, and then returns to where it came from." Was in the back of the room and kind of had to smile. Image was taken minutes after a snowstorm, just as sunlight broke through the clouds. Within probably 5 minutes all the snow on the branches had melted and fallen. Took this shot in the few minutes that the sun shined on the snow sticking to the branches. Was very much a "point and shoot" shot taken with a Hasselblad and a 50mm lens. Looking back, only had enough time to shoot off the first part of a roll of 120 film before the snow was melting off the branches and I has to put my Hass away.

[Jac@stafford.net]

Reminds me of an incident that I experienced many years ago.

Yeah, I've had an eminent critic make a silly comment on my work, too.

[Mark Sampson]

-It's not unknown for people to find valid meanings in art that the artist never intended. Depends on the art and the viewer of course... and your openness to interpretation. I've learned quite a few things from what people have said about my pictures over the years.
Without commenting on your critic's idea, Greg, I do like your photograph.

[Alan Klein]

I believe photographers think they document reality and are 'straight' shooters. Perhaps even rational and scientific in approach and execution.

The complications of image making appeal to the technician. Like me.
.
As I explore art trying to open my mind, I see Jungian archetypes.

In the morning, eyes wide open, full dark, my visualizations are striking in their reference to comic books, which I never spent much time with. Woke dreams.

Looking at our work posted here I see Rorschach blots. Dense woods of dark patterns.

Are we stuck in genetic memory?

My breakthrough art was Dragon sculpture. Where does that come from?

I have posted images of them.

Randy, Where can I find your photos?

[Tin Can]

Randy, Where can I find your photos?

I don't maintain a clean flickr account like you. Mine is a mishmash, some are just snaps so I can see a fine detail. Like the bottom of my foot. Or read a can label.

Here is what I like. #1 is DSLR, 2 is old iPod, 3 is 3-1 macro 5X7 FP4 reversed with 4X5 interneg and printed to 11x14 on an enlarger. I found the negative yesturday. I thought it was lost.

I fail most of the time.

I don't scan all film.









Randy Moe ERIN 1.4 16X20 by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

1-The Bean1.2 by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

Atomic Bomb by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr