Tao of Photography
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Selection, Selection, Selection,....

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Michael Reichmann, author of the wonderful blog Luminous Landscape , recently posted an interesting essay on the convergence of still and vi...
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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Finding New Things in Old

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I am always amused when I hear young photographers lament about there not being anything interesting left over to take pictures of (after...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Not Taking Pictures of What We're Taking Pictures Of

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Brooks Jensen, editor of Lenswork , recently posted a humorous podcast entitled "That's Not What We Do" in which he recounts...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Wittgenstein's Sublime Dialectic

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"1 The world is all that is the case; 1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things; 1.11 The world is determined by the facts,...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Hawaii: Visions of Primal Serenity

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I've recently self-published a book of photographs of Hawaii , taken while my wife and I were celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary b...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Landscapes of the Soul

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"The physical object, to me, is merely a stepping stone to an inner world where the object with the help of the subconscious drives and...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

George Barr's Stunning New Book on the Creative Process in Photography

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George Barr's stunning new book - Take Your Photography to the Next Level - is an impressive debut for George in the world of art instr...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Physics vs Photography: Which is Harder?

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George Barr, on his Behind the Lens blog, posted one of those wonderfully thought-provoking (and ultimately unanswerable) questions about ...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Doors of Perception

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"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception" - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). ...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Coral Gables Photo Exhibit Follow-up

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One of the joys of photography, as a public art form, is attending an opening of an exhibit of one's own images; a rare privilege and ho...
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Andy Ilachinski
Virginia, United States
I am, by training and profession, a physicist, specializing in the modeling of complex adaptive systems (with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics). However, both by temperament and inner muse, I am a photographer, and have been one for far longer than my Ph.D. gives me any right to claim an ownership by physics. Photography became a life-long pursuit for me the instant my parents gave me a Polaroid instamatic camera for my 10th birthday. I have been studying the mysterious relationship between inner experiences and outer realities ever since. My creative process is very simple. I take pictures of what calms my soul. There may be other, more descriptive or poetic words that may be used to define the “pattern” that connects my images, but the simplest meta-pattern is this: I take snapshots of moments in time and space in which a peace washes gently over me, and during which I sense a deep interconnectedness between my soul and the world. Not Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment,” but rather a "Sudden Stillness." My favorite quote: "That which you are seeking is doing the seeking." (St. Francis of Assissi)
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