This one is just for fun...
To make a perfect winter day like this,
You must have a
clear, sparkling air,
With a sheen from the snow,
Little or no wind;
And the warmth must come directly from the sun.
It must not be a
thawing warmth.
The tension of nature must not be relaxed.
The earth
must be resonant of bare,
And you hear the lisping tinkle of chickadees
From time to time
And the unrelenting steel-cold scream of a jay,
Unmelted, That never flows into a song, A sort of wintry trumpet, screaming
cold;
Hard, tense, frozen music,
Like the winter sky itself;
In the
blue livery of winter's band.Henry David Thoreau
In the first class we really just started to get to know one another and the instructor started getting to know our individual skill levels and what we hope to get out of the class...all levels of skill present and every single camera is different...
...we took pictures with different iso settings...
..our homework for the week is to read the entire manual that came with our camera...somehow I never did read the whole thing!
"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
Edward Steichen
Fra Filippo Lippi (b. Florence, ca. 1406–d. Spoleto, 1469)
Portrait of a Woman and a Man at a Casement, ca. 1440–44
Tempera on panel; 25 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (64.1 x 41.9 cm)
Inscribed on edge of woman's cuff: LEALT[À]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (89.15.19)
Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970)
New York
1970
Acrylic on canvas
60 1/4 x 57 1/8 in.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.43.173
(c) 1998 Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko Prizel/Artists Rights Society, New York
Photo courtesy the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ammi Phillips (1788 - 1865)
Greenwich, Washington County, New York
c. 1815
Oil on canvas
48 1/2 x 25 in.Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, gift of Oliver Eldridge in memory of Sarah Fairchild Anderson, teacher of art, North Adams Public Schools, daughter of Harriet Campbell
Photo courtesy Imaging Department (c) President and Fellows of Harvard College
and a huge exhibit of Eggleston photos...Alexander Calder, 'The Hostess', 1928. Steel wire, 11 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 11 7/8 in. (29.2 x 11.5 x 30.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of Edward M.M. Warburg. © 2008 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
William Eggleston, "Karco", c. 1983-86, from "The Democratic Forest", 1989. Exhibition print, 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm). Cheim & Read, New York © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Cheim & Read Gallery.“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around: that nothing was more important or less important.” Every detail, no matter how insignificant, takes on meaning."
