red flower cistern Japanese Tea House

redflwrcistern
Originally uploaded by fauselr.

Sometimes a picture is waiting for you to discover it, sometimes you have to put the elements together. This photograph is simple but I believe its simplicity is its strength. The Japanese Tea House in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia had many beautiful vistas of flowers, water, bridges, temple lanterns, but this was my favorite picture of all the ones I took that day. I think it expresses the place for me better than all the others.

horseeye

horseeye
Originally uploaded by fauselr.

Today hopefully I learned how to post a photo to my blog. I am fairly technosavy but I admit that yesterday I was stumped by this. The pictures that I post will hopefully fulfill the simplicity requirements of a zen picture while being complex enough to get your attention.

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Photography and the creative process

I just bought a Nikon D70 and have been photographing all my life, or at least since I was about 9 or 10 and I just turned 60 so that's a lot of photographing. I've used Nikons for at least the last 15 years, ever since I was able to afford one, I've had a FM2, and a N90S before I purchased the D70. I also meditate and want this to be a journal about trying to combine the two into a photography that reflects simplicity. I don't photograph every day, but I think about photography every day, and am always looking for the picture in everything I look at, a curse and a blessing, a blessing because I see things other people don't see, a curse because I can't just look at something, I'm always looking for the photograph in it.