Bio: This is a blog about the things I like - fine art photography, art in general, poetry, and technology. Sometimes I'll post as myself and sometimes I'll use one of my alter egos, Rufus McGurk the art guy or Marko-san the haiku poetry guy.
I was reading the transcript of an interview with Lee Friedlander when one of his comments struck a personal chord with me. Best known as a street photographer, in the 1960s and 70s Friedlander developed a ...
I often feature photographs that I've created, like the one above, on posts here at the Forest Rat blog. Wouldn't it be nice if you could get your hands on a print or two and hang ...
When I was in the fifth or sixth grade I found a Kodak travel camera tucked away on the top shelf of the hallway closet buried under a pile of winter gloves and hats. It had ...
Let's talk abstract photography. To do that we'll need to talk a bit about abstract art in general and to do that we need to talk about music. Stick with me here.
In my last post I mentioned a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson because all this talk of whether it is better to appreciate nature through the steady empirical eyes of science or the soaring imaginative eyes ...
In my last post, Appreciating Nature with Science, we talked about Allen Carlson's idea that the best framework for properly appreciating nature as nature is science. Knowing a bit of natural history and environmental science ...
In my first post about appreciating nature we saw that appreciating nature as itself, as nature, and not as "the environment" or as merely a backdrop for our activities, etc. is a lot more difficult than ...
Remember those old freshman college appreciation courses like Art Appreciation 102? Classes that got you some easy credits and were intended to give you a well rounded education. You're fresh out of high school majoring in ...
