by Kim Ort | Feb 10, 2016 | Contemplation, Photography, Place
A week shy of my 59th birthday, and it was my first time in Paris. We arrived at the hotel feeling tired, hungry, and in desperate need of a shower, after the overnight flight. Our room wasn’t ready so, in lieu of a nap, we asked where we could find a good cup of...
by Kim Ort | Oct 28, 2015 | Books, Consolations, Contemplative Photographers, Place
“Genius is best understood in its original and ancient sense: describing the specific underlying quality of a given place as in the Latin Genius Loci, the spirit of a place, it describes a form of meeting, of air and land and trees, perhaps a hillside, a cliff...
by Kim Ort | May 19, 2015 | Abstraction, Contemplation, Essence, Photography, Place
One of my current projects is to create abstract photographs of my hometown of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. With abstract photography, we try to reflect the mood or emotions or qualities of a place. Each Tuesday, I’ll present a new image from the...
