Backstage Kokoro
A "behind-the-scenes" look at selected images in my Kokoro project —
Content, photographic notes, EXIF data, creative process, miscellaneous commentary, and original digital captures. And now with additional audio comments about selected images!
From Kokoro #013 - Life Lived in Moments
Sometimes I just have to escape — get away from people, get away from machines, get away from noise, clutter, busyness.
I was in inner-Mongolia participating in a massive exhibition of photographs. It was the dead of winter and unbelievably cold. For three weeks, the temperature never rose above 17-degrees F. Between the down clothes and the cold that drove us indoors, I was feeling claustrophobic. Everything was done in groups. They were all great people and I enjoyed my time there, but even just having a half an hour or so to wander out in the desert, by myself, camera in hand, created a relief that I desperately needed.
Perhaps this lone, scrubby bush is a psychological projection of my mood at the moment. Then again, perhaps it's just a scrubby bush handily used in a minimalist composition. It's always dicey to try to explain why one makes a photograph.
Original digital capture (downsized for the web)
1/80 sec at f / 9.0, ISO 100, Panasonic DMC-G1, LUMIX G VARIO 14-45/F3.5-5.6, 34 mm
Sometimes I just have to escape — get away from people, get away from machines, get away from noise, clutter, busyness.
I was in inner-Mongolia participating in a massive exhibition of photographs. It was the dead of winter and unbelievably cold. For three weeks, the temperature never rose above 17-degrees F. Between the down clothes and the cold that drove us indoors, I was feeling claustrophobic. Everything was done in groups. They were all great people and I enjoyed my time there, but even just having a half an hour or so to wander out in the desert, by myself, camera in hand, created a relief that I desperately needed.
Perhaps this lone, scrubby bush is a psychological projection of my mood at the moment. Then again, perhaps it's just a scrubby bush handily used in a minimalist composition. It's always dicey to try to explain why one makes a photograph.
Original digital capture (downsized for the web)
1/80 sec at f / 9.0, ISO 100, Panasonic DMC-G1, LUMIX G VARIO 14-45/F3.5-5.6, 34 mm