21 years ago today, I shot a triptych that has hung on my walls and given me pleasure for all these years. It is a study in green and yellow and quite abstract. I shot them on Kodak Ektar 25 film in 35mm with a Nikon F-4 camera and a Sigma Apo f:4.5 300mm lens from a tripod at a 60th and 30th of a second in a dark wooded river valley. All the shots were done wide open and at a moderate distance, so there is only one spot of focus in a solid sea of out of focus green and yellow. I printed them 16X24 size and framed them with a double green matte, and a shiny wooden green frame and used super-multi coated Den glass in front.
I did not write these details down.
I can not remember the family dinner that day or the people or any other detail of that day or even if there was a dinner.
I think this anecdote serves to illuminate one corner of the mind of a photographer--this photographer anyway.
Give thanks out loud today for something, even if there is no one else to hear you. It is good for the soul.
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