Edited Digital Image
Dallas, Texas
Oak Cliff Neighborhood 

When I walk, my eyes constantly search for images.  

Not so much when driving, as I'm more concerned with other things, such as the things that can hit me.

There is also a decrease in the angle of vision as one's speed increases; but, the mechanics of perception is a very dry subject.   

Let's just say that I miss a lot of opportunities when I'm in a rush. 

When we are still, a world opens up to us.  

Think about it.  Vacation in a place for two weeks or live in a place for a year.  It's two different worlds.   Walk through a museum, or sit and contemplate a single painting.  

I believe Mies van der Rohe was right when he asserted that time was our most important commodity in design.  That could be extended to time being the most important commodity period.     

Life

Photographic Study
digital file
not intended as a final product
Bones are not us, so they remain.

Image notes:
I don't like the warped appearance of the perspective, should adjust by backing up or using a more advanced camera.  Cell phones have limits to what can be done.  Limits that fade with each update.

Conversation With Myself

Breakfast at the diner,
a time of introspection.

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 Why don’t I work digitally and skip the material art world altogether?  A lot of people are doing this, and their work is, for the most part, exciting and intriguing.  

I can’t really give you a clear answer.  It’s not like I can’t, or there is no opportunity.  

That medium just does not appeal to me.

It doesn’t take up any space outside of the digital world.  As long as we have computers, the images are permanent, no decay, and no need to work at preservation.  Things in the real world are mortal, unless they fashioned out of gold or ceramics.  Those materials don’t seem to fall apart with age.

There is a certain beauty in maintaining something seen as worthwhile.  The labor, the effort, the struggle - whatever name you choose, that marks the importance we place on an object.  

Example, in city politics, the neighborhoods where sidewalks are maintained are affluent and near city officials.  The broken sidewalks, they are in neighborhoods that feel, with justification, that the current government just doesn’t care.  Yet, the houses the people live in are kept up to the best of the residents ability.  The yards are kept in shape.  People care about their neighborhood.

You just don’t have that relationship between art and people when you uses digital images.  You can forget about them and they don’t change.

The other thing that bothers me is the potential to make infinite and indistinguishable images.  We have already seen what that sort of thing does to a well designed object, like chairs.  It devalues the individual chairs and soon they are just ignored because they are everywhere.  

Photography of Things

Breakfast

Digital Sketchbook Entries 4/31/2022

The following images are captured with a smart phone.

Visual Note:  There is very little actual white in the image of the clouds.
Note:  Depth is created by trees and perspective.  The farther away a tree, the more solid the leaves look
Note:  Trash can becomes focus of shot due to location
This is a quick snap, more of a candid photo than a set up 

Use of depth of field allows for selection of details.
Point of view is not from standing position. 
Studying the root system of a dying shrub
Note:  While this was an accident, the ground and wall together follow the rule of thirds, which I believe creates an image that does not appear contrived.