Comments on: Golden Gate Moonrise http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/914 Digital Photos & Inspiration from Harold Davis Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:55:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Moon Roll http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/914/comment-page-1#comment-45666 Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Moon Roll Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:22:13 +0000 http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/914#comment-45666 [...] e="photo sharing"> Moon Roll, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a full moon night, I photographed from Kirby Cove. The moon was rising from behind and below the Golden G [...] [...] e=”photo sharing”> Moon Roll, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a full moon night, I photographed from Kirby Cove. The moon was rising from behind and below the Golden G [...]

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]]> By: Harold Davis http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/914/comment-page-1#comment-35565 Harold Davis Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:40:44 +0000 http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/914#comment-35565 Hi Robert I agree with everything you write. Thanks for posting. Here's a link to my original <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/06/myths_metaphors_and_digital_ph.html" rel="nofollow">Myths, Metaphors, and Digital Photography</a> story that you mention. Hi Robert I agree with everything you write. Thanks for posting. Here’s a link to my original Myths, Metaphors, and Digital Photography story that you mention.

]]> By: texbrandt http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/914/comment-page-1#comment-35522 texbrandt Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:26:24 +0000 http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/914#comment-35522 Your thoughts on Myths, Metaphors, and Digital Photography reminded me of a conversation I had with a photographer displaying his work at a craft show. When I mentioned digital photography and photoshop he launched into a diatribe about all those people who think a camera(digital) makes them a photographer. All the while I was thinking your work is good, "but you ain't no Ansel Adams either." As a sculptor I had a similar encounter with a gentleman who thought if you didn't use a chisel and mallet you were not making legitimate sculpture. This mind set is well captured with a comment I got at an art show a few years ago. I was in my booth playing a Native American Flute made by a friend in his high tech shop. A man stopped and looked and with a sneer said, "looks like he uses power tools." I picked up my pocket knife and laid it on the counter, and said "there is a very basic power tool, at the moment it is not under power." Then I picked it up opening the blade and said, "now it is under power." The man walked away before I could say more, from his body language I really ticked him off. All of this is to say that the most important part of any tool be it camera or carving tool is the eye and mind of the one who uses it, it doesn't matter whether it is a box with a pin hole for a lens or a bit of electronics and sensors that can take us to another world. No matter the tool, the artist will always take us to new places if we are willing to open our eyes. The photographers who we remember and revere are the very ones who stepped beyond myth and convention. Robert "The role of the artist is not merely to reproduce the visible, but to make visible." Your thoughts on Myths, Metaphors, and Digital Photography reminded me of a conversation I had with a photographer displaying his work at a craft show. When I mentioned digital photography and photoshop he launched into a diatribe about all those people who think a camera(digital) makes them a photographer. All the while I was thinking your work is good, “but you ain’t no Ansel Adams either.” As a sculptor I had a similar encounter with a gentleman who thought if you didn’t use a chisel and mallet you were not making legitimate sculpture. This mind set is well captured with a comment I got at an art show a few years ago. I was in my booth playing a Native American Flute made by a friend in his high tech shop. A man stopped and looked and with a sneer said, “looks like he uses power tools.” I picked up my pocket knife and laid it on the counter, and said “there is a very basic power tool, at the moment it is not under power.” Then I picked it up opening the blade and said, “now it is under power.”

The man walked away before I could say more, from his body language I really ticked him off. All of this is to say that the most important part of any tool be it camera or carving tool is the eye and mind of the one who uses it, it doesn’t matter whether it is a box with a pin hole for a lens or a bit of electronics and sensors that can take us to another world. No matter the tool, the artist will always take us to new places if we are willing to open our eyes.

The photographers who we remember and revere are the very ones who stepped beyond myth and convention.

Robert
“The role of the artist is not merely to reproduce the visible, but to make visible.”

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