by Kim Ort | Oct 12, 2012 | People, Quotes, Visual Design
If you can’t find something worthy to photograph within forty feet of where you stand, you are not seeing. ~ Ruth Bernhard I was reminded of this wonderful quote today when I received an email about a portfolio of images by Robert Hecht called Tulips in the...
by Kim Ort | Aug 14, 2012 | Attention, Contemplation, Perspective, Photography, Place
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Seventeen years ago, my family left the home we’d built in Illinois to move to Indiana. Luckily, our best friends from our old neighbourhood...
by Kim Ort | Aug 3, 2012 | Openness, Perspective, Photography, Roots of Photography
This is part 5 of The Roots of Photography, based on the book The Photographer’s Eye (paid link) by John Szarkowski. It is about what makes photography unique in the art world. Vantage Point: Expanding Perspectives “The photographer learned that the...