by Kim Ort | May 17, 2017 | Adventures in Seeing Book, Books, The Practice of Contemplative Photography
Recently, I revisited a post by David Ulrich on his Top Ten Books on Seeing. It’s an intriguing list and I’ve only read two of them, Walden and The Doors of Perception. In my individual posts, I often refer to favourite books on seeing, but I’ve...
by Kim Ort | May 3, 2017 | Books, Contemplation, Visual Journalling
“Show, don’t tell. Reveal the carnal details of the scene. Use those details to show and, by inference, tell the story. Images do not only speak to the mind, but also activate the heart and senses, and spark the “blink” of intuition in which the viewer...
by Kim Ort | Mar 15, 2017 | Books, Contemplation, Topics
“To take vision for granted, to be thoughtless about the variety, miracle, and magic of seeing is to limit one’s self to a play-by-play objectification of reality. But to envision the act of seeing as the marriage between the viewer and viewed is to be...
