“Many times beauty begs to be recorded and it is only later that its position in the overall order of things becomes apparent.” So said podcast listener Bryant Johnson, a sentence that made me think about how we photograph and the ways that we can produce work just by looking and responding.
After our time talking about project planning, I thought this was a great way to segue into a discussion of beauty, photographic impulse and how this picture of a cloud taught me a few things.
Cloud Over Lake Superior, 2009 - Photograph by Jeff Curto
In our final “Project Planning Roadmap” podcast, we talk about DAM – Digital Asset Management – trying to get a handle on what these software packages can do for you. Rating, sorting, grouping, keywording and adjusting your images is what applications like Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom are all about. If you’re using them, you know, but if not, it’s a really great way to get organized, stay organized and keep your project on track.
UPDIG – Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines is an organization dedicated clarifying the issues affecting accurate reproduction and management of digital image files.
In May of 2005, I was honored to have LensWork magazine publish a selection of my images under the title Bella Luce. Now, I’m very excited to announce that I’ve been asked to participate in LensWork’s Folio series. The beautifully-produced “Evidence of Hands on Stone” folio can be thought of as a hybrid between an individual print and a book. It’s a collection of 10 unbound prints – book-size rather than wall-size prints.
LensWork has produced a really beautiful package that I’m very proud of. These subjects of the photographs are the evidence of patient application of hands on stone, allowing extraordinary things to be created from ordinary materials. Over time, layers of the past and present combine to create something that will remain to be seen in the future.
This is a great way to own a beautiful package of my work at a lower cost than my limited-edition prints. Check it out here.
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