by Kim Ort | Oct 24, 2013 | Abstraction, Essence, Going Abstract, Photography, Possibilities, Workshops
Abstractions reveal essence. What is essence? The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something that determines its character. By going close in with this red tulip, I saw its indispensable qualities of redness, yellowness, smoothness, curves, and inner glow....
by Kim Ort | Oct 22, 2013 | Adventures in Seeing, Attention, Belonging / Connection, Contemplation, Essence, Playing Big
In part 1 of this series, I talked about my beginnings as a photographer and the evolution from a focus on technique to one of creative self-expression. At the end of that post, I was at the point where I was beginning to blog and write online. I’d set up an...
by Kim Ort | Oct 8, 2013 | Attention, Contemplation, Essence, Photography
On Sunday at the Plenty Market at Stratus Vineyards I spoke with a small group about photographing a plentiful autumn. The point here was not about making the best pictures to hang on the wall that show the resplendence of this season. It was about really experiencing...
