Time for renewal

"The Burn series evolved from my ongoing interest in life cycles. Controlled burns imitate naturally occurring fires by removing accumulated dead vegetation and releasing seeds from dormancy. By opening the woodlands to more sunlight, the fires prepare the soil for new spring growth, and the cycle of renewal continues. While accompanying restoration ecologists on prescribed prairie burns, I am drawn to the ephemeral quality of a single moment when life and death do not seem opposed to each other, but are parts of a single process to be accepted as a whole."
I discovered "The Burn" on Jane Fulton Alt's website. I think these images are stunning and haunting at the same time.

Wet Collodian Techniques

I am absolutely fascinated with old techniques and wish I could do a workshop. I might just have o take a trip to NY... These stunning images are from Jody Ake, also a Critical Mass participant. What a delight.

Playful nature

A couple of weeks ago I received a CD from the Critical Mass participants and had finally time to browse some entries. I was rather taken with these simple and delightful images - Imaginary scape - by Kyohie Abe

A couple of weeks ago I came upon Tonatiuh from Switzerland and fell in love with his images. These are from his series "Memento II"

Vivid memories

These images by Ken Rosenthal are from his series "Seen and not seen". In his statement he is talking about vivid memories, but in fact false memories as he wasn't even born yet. "Interestingly, as this body of work has evolved, some images have become so resonant that the lines between experience and invention have blurred even more."

BW Magic

I am often drawn to forests and when I came across Kristin Satzman's amazing bw images of her surrounds I just had to post them.
"Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, squirrels and people. It must be all around us. In this garden - in all places." The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Painterly magic

Today I came across Sasha Rudensky as I browsed through Photo Eye. His images achieve a perfection of composition and leave a bit of magic behind.

In transit

I found these photos by Julia Christe recently on Lumas. I have admired them for some time now, but forgot where I saw them, so it was a delight to stumble upon them again.

Travelling dream

I immediately was fascinated with Angela Bacon-Kidwell dream like & ethereal images. She says on her website: "My photography comes from a life long obsession of exploring how my subconscious generates my dreams. As I move through my day, I am keenly aware of my encounters with people, places and things. I mentally record the details of these situations, and the physical or emotional responses that they evoke. These fleeting associations replay themselves in my dreams. The random moments combine to form sleep stories that are rich narratives, ripe with symbolism. With that as my model, I construct sets, use props and invite myself and models to perform in a natural, intuitive way. In essence, I attempt to create a waking dream."

How clever

When I saw these images by Cynthia Greig I had one of those moment - I wish I would have thought of that. I think they are absolutely stunning in their executed simplicity. I have been collecting broken things - ie toasters, broken cups and old iron, have painted them white, to photograph them on white (I don't know what it is with my fascination with white on white), but I know - I most probably would never have thought about outlining them in such a clever way.

Poet at heart

Yaniv Waissa's titles read like poetry. He lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel and has an amazing collection of work. The images below are from his series "Butterflies I Haven't Seen There". He likes to use plastic toy cameras and a variety of films + polaroids.