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cutglass dreams poetry and photographs cutglass dreams poetry and photographs about words i wanted to use i was looking for lonely but could only think of alone when i said little i really meant a tittle selfless betrayed magnanimous and when i thought he was unctuous but called him plastic the baby was a bitty little darling but i called her tiny and lost a favour and why does enjoy come to mind when i am really looking for savor june 7 2023 uncategorized leave a comment one year with the x100 i gifted myself the fujifilm x100 on january 1 2013 on the eve of the camera s first birthday i am taking the time to pause and reflect on how it has fared and how it affected my photography i was very excited about the purchase of this piece of equipment but the time of purchase was some how not the best for taking the camera outdoors it was a hard winter and i had to wait till i took it to india later in the month once in india i used the camera extensively in family dinners reunions and birthdays over a period of six weeks the results were stunning indoor photographs the ability of this camera to handle white balance and low light is phenomenal and has been praised extensively all over the internet all this said i did not buy this camera for recreational photography i was anxious about its outdoor performance before i bought the x100 i had shot for about four years with the canon 1000d i was very happy with the canon to the extent that i exhibited the images shot with it in a gallery the exhibition was well received and i sold a good number of photographs i was wondering if the x100 would live up to these standards i would not find out until the beginning of spring i did take the camera out in winter but shooting with this camera was a challenge it had a fixed focal length and i was used to the 18 55 kit lens of the canon my shots would turn out loose and without character this camera is so quiet that i began to miss the reassuring click of my older dslr but it did not take me long to realize that i was struggling here not with the camera but with a genre of photography i had never given serious thought to street photography before and most of my previous work focuses on architecture landscape and urban decay people were conspicuously missing in my images i looked up the work of street photographers all had one thing to say get close to the subject it is surprising how dynamic people look from a distance of one meter the term eye witness takes on a different meaning when you are one meter away from the action the genre of street photography derives its strength from the mysterious intimacy of distance it has developed tremendously over the years and many photographers have experimented with longer distances but all these experiments would have failed had they not made up for the loss of dynamism and intimacy with other visual features like colour photogenic elements or great timing street photography has been interpreted repeatedly over time but the genesis of this genre lies in the realm of private images the sort of photographs we look at as a mother a son a sister or an uncle personal images are different from the ones in the public domain in that they are viewed solely in the context in which they were made they shy away from the spectacular and focus on the commonplace elements of an image imposing interpretations on such images is hard for they are firmly rooted in the muteness of reality what is truly surprising about the private photograph is that its intimacy shines forth even before an outsider the image makes the audience an extended family of the photograph when making a private image the photographer uses the context invisible to light to construe the image two people may be related but the light falling on them is blind to this relationship yet the private photographer has faith that their relationship will somehow shine through the image the secret behind the success of such an image of faith is the humanity of the observer what jung referred to as the collective conscious in this sense the first street photographers set out to make the world their family the works of paul strand vivian maier and walker evans are a profound contemplation on the family photograph thus the private image relies the humanity of the audience but it is also distinct in how it handles time all photographic images have to answer the questions posed to them by the nature of time the private image does so by unconditionally submitting itself to the effects time has upon memory for it does not seek to freeze time but becomes a reminder of its unstoppable flow when henri cartier bresson took to the streets with a camera he was a hunter seeking as his prey the moments in time that flit about like wild animals each image was a moment torn off time s fabric to be exhibited as a feat when speaking of his images he said he was replacing the paint brush with the camera the painting is a distant relative of time it belongs to the artist in the same way the photograph belongs to the subject while bresson was picking up moments in time paul strand sought to culminate an entire life time in one image the result was a deeply moving banality tags essay fujifilm paul strand philosophy private photographs street photography time vivian maier x100 january 1 2014 uncategorized leave a comment the sound of distant traffic quiets my mind sometimes the world seems to have seven billion languages unintelligible sounds visit me and become family before i know it new words are faces we explore the contours of these foreign landscapes and gradually build homes tags faces language poem poetry population sounds traffic words november 21 2013 uncategorized leave a comment no two giraffes are the same or a strange collective noun some live on white ruled paper and some on the yellow of a sticky note the spots are the hardest to match which makes things easy for mother giraffe when she is looking to spot her kid in a large tower tags collective noun giraffe spots sticky note tower yellow november 21 2013 uncategorized leave a comment autumn is leaving and giving way to colder weather but the forests are still ablaze with colours so much has happened that i will only share the last few weeks tags colder weather indian cuisine indian food november 8 2013 autumn cooking culinary photography leave a comment two maps 37 591646 127 043220 tags apartment maps office maps october 9 2013 cartography maps leave a comment ikseon dong seoul the ikseon dong hanok area in seoul is a settlement of houses built by jeongse gwon from 1888 to 1965 the settlement consists of small single storied traditional korean houses that have managed to retain the look that korean houses had in the 1930 s the streets are narrow and the roofs are tiled the alleys are lined sometimes by small artist studios that enjoy is the anonymity of the inconspicuous neighbourhood as we sauntered down the streets it was usual to see a tailor stitch away in a small corner that claimed to be his shop or little hole in the wall noodle places and soju bars the area is in the midst of a redevelopment controversy prof fouser our tour guide has been leading a movement that aims protect the hanok give it the status of a heritage site as i walked the meandering alleys of the hanok memories of the ananthashram eatery in khotachiwadi came to mind tags architecture hanok monochrome photography seoul street urban june 29 2013 architecture heritage korea nostalgia travel leave a comment the jongmyo shrine the jongmyo shrine in seoul is the supreme state shrine established to honour ancestral spirits and deceased kings and queens of the joseon dynasty it was built in 1395 after king taejo founder of the dynasty designated seoul as the empire s capital the tradition of enshrining ancestors and deceased nobility is a confucian idea ancestral tablets of deceased kings and queens are enshrined in halls and sacrificial rites are performed in their honour among all the confucian states in asia where similar shrines were established only korea has preserved its royal shrine and continues to perform royal ancestral rites this is the chief reason that jongmyo was inscribed on the unesco world heritage list in 1995 i was part of the excursion organized by the royal asiatic society korea which was led by prof robert fouser the excursion covered the jongmyo shrine the hanok area in ikseon dong and the pagoda at tapgol park i shall write about the hanok area in a future post here is a compilation of pictures from the jongmyo shrine precinct tags jongmyo seoul south korea unesco world heritage june 25 2013 confucian korea photography shrines travel unesco leave a comment portraits i posted some images from the yeongsan jae ceremony in the last post while covering the event i had the occasion to take a few portraits i present some of them in this post tags korea photography portraits seoul travel june 22 2013 korea photography religion seoul travel 3 comments the yeongsan jae ceremony at bongwon sa seoul the yeongsan jae or the vulture mountain ceremony is a buddhist ritual performed at the bongwon sa temple in seoul korea the objective of the ritual is to soothe ancestral souls who roam the earth unappeased in order that they are spared of rebirth and attain liberation a restless soul may only be appeased by the supreme knowledge as was first preached by sakyamuni buddha in the lotus sutra whose recital forms the core of this ceremony tags bongwon sa photography religion sakyamuni buddha seoul spirituality yeongsan jae june 19 2013 buddhism korea photography seoul travel 9 comments older posts blog at wordpress com cutglass dreams blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed cutglass dreams join 66 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy cutglass dreams subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading 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