Happy Birthday Mary V. McCormick – Deeply grateful that we had the chance to chat tonight and celebrate your day. I love, love love creating these photographs. Nor can I get enough of my weekend time isolated for the set up, experiment that unfolds and the photographs that are captured. I thoroughly enjoy sharing them […]
Category: Creative
Focus on the creative inspirations that prompted the photography
Visit with Jim – Reframe, Refrain, Reorient
Today’s post walks through reframing and the power it has to change what we see and think. Often with both the problem and solution lying right in front of us. My atypical use of a camera is the reason why I enjoy this photographic artform. I have a chance to break the rules and reframe […]
Visit with Jim – Fare thee well
There is little to be said here now on this day. I would prefer you enjoy his creativity and spend time listening to him. https://www.youtube.com/davidcrosby Regards, Jim
Visit with Jim – Purpose, Passion, Joy
Today’s post walks through a challenging weekend and expands far beyond that short timeframe. Work was very busy with a lot to complete which in turn took me away from my photography. The greater good was to be found in helping my team clear the work at hand. This conflicted with my desire to have […]
Visit with Jim – Who, What and How
For today, my first thought was around what is your purpose. Who needs help? What do they they need? And How do would you help them? We wrestle with these questions as our family works to deliver on our mission: “We will be on the breaking edge of abstract photography and bring forward new artwork […]
Visit with Jim – In the Moment and Flow of Creativity
A question that I have been pondering and wrestling with is: What is collective consciousness and what would the structure look like to support that? I assume there needs to be a fabric or connection between us to allow the sharing of our consciousness across a distance in time or space. Given we are bound […]
Visit with Jim – Metaphorical Hope
Today we will visit touch on a trio of prints we are working on mounting and framing. I put two colors in one Petri dish i front of the camera. Then I stood back steadily triggering the shutter to capture the three images you see below along with many others. They are remarkable. Clearly defined […]
Visit with Jim – Cameras, Turbulence and the Illusion of Permanence
Today’s post may wander a bit. My thoughts revolve around the impermanence in life and the illusion of permanence that cameras bring to us. The three photos (above right and individuals further below) are taken on a glass plate with inks and paints moving across the field of view at various speeds. In some cases […]
Visit with Jim – Wabi Sabi Esthetic
If life is constantly changing, nothing can be complete or perfect. Acceptance of this idea is perhaps a path forward to peace and freedom. The more I read here, the more any race to achieve perfection begins to sound like a fool’s pursuit. Imperfection and impermanence… Wabi – sabi… Slow down … Find beauty in imperfection and […]
Visit with Jim – Up From the Rabbit Hole
Today’s post stems from some cool interactions with customers at three recent art shows in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. A frequent question posed is whether my artwork is acrylic pour art. Which is a fair question. There are some similarities … in some pieces. The beauty of the acrylic pour lies in the […]