Tao of Photography
Sunday, November 23, 2008

The Click of the Shutter Button...and A Deep Mystery

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Physics is replete with "revolutions" in world-view that emerged after someone was brilliant enough - and brave enough - to quest...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Experiential "Flow" in Photography

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I am often asked, "What do you think about when you do photography?" To which I typically respond with something like, "the...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

The Allure of Abstraction and the Difficulty of Defining It

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"Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceiv...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Abstract Glyphs: Mysterious Purveyors of Hidden Harmonies

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What does Athens, Greece have to do with the Carpathian Mountains ? That's a trick question, of course, as the "connection" b...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008

"Boinga, Boinga, Boinga" Shots

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My family and I recently returned from a "mini vacation" in the Adirondacks , near Lake Placid , NY. The trip evoked many wonderfu...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Color vs. B&W...a "Heisenberg Uncertainty"-like Relation?

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In my last post, and immediately on the heels of returning from a trip my wife and I took to Greece, I noted that Santorini = geometry + ...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Santorini (Greece) = Geometry + Color + Shadow

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Regular readers of my blog, and those that have seen my work in Lenswork , Focus , and Black & White magazine, know that I am primaril...
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Monday, June 09, 2008

The Eightfold Path Toward Self-Discovery Through Photography

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A while back, I posted an entry called The Eightfold Way of the Artist , in which I describe the basic "steps" by which most arti...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Mystic Flame Portfolio

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After devoting almost four months of work to my Micro Worlds portfolio (which I'm delighted to announce has recently been published in...
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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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