Minimalism. A dominate subject. High contrast. Rule of thirds. Composition. Complementary colors. Symmetry. Leading lines. Framing. There is a smörgåsbord of rules I can choose from to guide my shooting, to shoehorn my photos into a recognizable and recognized style. But what if I don’t want to. What if I want not just to “break” […]
Often I want to be alone, to avoid the company of others. I am no misanthrope nor do I aspire to be a hermit, but the constant din of daily life does little for me. I much prefer solitude, the restorative companionship of quiet, both in an acoustic and in a psychological sense. But it’s […]
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself—for the photograph—without consideration of how it may be used. Eliot Porter, Intimate Landscapes (New York, 1979), 11
The details of nature become more interesting, and the become more beautiful too, as one becomes more aware of them. Eliot Porter, The Color of Wildness (New York, 2001), 132
Photography for me is a creative art. It is not simply an illustrative or interpretive medium.… I try, not always with success, to photograph only what stimulates a recognition of beauty, either that which is intrinsic in the objects of nature or is a manifestation of the wonderful relationships of things in the natural world. […]