Many people are familiar with some of Wim Wenders films, and his captivating moving picture artistry that captivates us in them. What many don’t know, as with many great directors, he is a great still photographer and remains one to this day.
Check out the tribute to his “road’ trilogy in the attached video below along with his website, that includes a section featuring his still photography.
https://dataconomy.com/2023/01/how-to-fix-ai-drawing-hands-why-ai-art/
AI is good at many things. If you want surrealistic and nightmarish imagery, AI inadvertently does that very well. AI is simply unparalleled in that regard when it comes to drawing hands at this point in its bizarre evolution. AI has mastered that “hands” down!
This is some of the best advice I have seen on how to grow professionally and personally in any life endeavor, but especially relevant to growing in a creative/technical world, specifically photography.
As one who evolved from the film/darkroom to digital age, I found this a very captivating video on street photography. From the 35mm Kodak Tri X 400 film days of street photography to today, all of the images produced over that span still fascinate me, regardless of how they were captured.
In this video, he captures the most stunning street photography images and video using a blend of the hardware and formats available over the span of 30+ years.
From a personal standpoint, I have much of the gear he uses in this video, from a small Leica D-Lux 7 pocket camera to a Nikon 35 mm film camera and lenses to a Nikon D750 full frame digital camera and lenses. His reason for using the gear is subjectify situational but aligns with what I feel work in capturing street photography images. Where we depart on that, is on many levels, mostly in the when, where how to use the small compact camera vs, the big body DLSR, and in using a manual lens on a DLSR. After watching this video, that will change.
He is shooting carnival scenes in this video, which I have done, but what he does here is nothing short of extraordinary. It gives me some great ideas to practice and use next time I am a State Fair and/or Carnival event. That practice will start today.
By Jonathan Thompson | October 14, 2022|9:51 am |Photography by David Yarrow, Portraits by Henrik Olund
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2022/october/david-yarrow-photographer-dallas/
This is an interesting article and a unique perspective on Dallas as a photography setting from such a world-renowned British fine art photographer. Anyone who has lived in Dallas for any amount of time knows it is an ever-changing city with a rapidly evolving culture. As one on the inside, it is always fun to hear how people on the outside looking in perceive the city. The only constant here is change.
It is often said that one does not need to travel far to get good photos, there are many a few feet from your door if you just look for them. Sometimes, they can be a few feet inside your door. Then black and white/grayscsle image of the lamp, window blind slats, and black background screen on a stand is a few feet from my bed. It has been there a while, but I didn’t “see” it there and visualize it as in this picture until I woke up the other morning and there it was! One thing I enjoy about photography is how it encourages he to look deeper into object around me and grab a nice image from the mundane.
These are a few images I took recently on my Sunday morning photo walks. I have many more from those walks that I am working on and may share here as well. I have always loved black & white images of urban scenes going back to my film/darkroom days.
This is a picture I took at sundown of a Bell UH-1D Iroquois Huey Helicopter on static display. Because of the fading light, I was able to capture a nice, silhouetted image of its iconic shape contrasted against a muted gradient of transitioning sky colors at twilight. For those interested, this aircraft is on permanent static display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field in Dallas Texas. There is a wonderful history behind this particular helicopter and it is a story worth checking out. You can find it in the link below.
A picture I took of the Davis Montains in West Texas at Sunset in 2009.
