Be Glad of Life
March 2009
A friend asked me recently what I get out of posting frames that will never run anywhere. No magazine, no client, no audience to speak of. And I said: I get out of bed and go find something to photograph, and that is enough. The act of making photographs keeps me paying attention. To light, to composition, to what ordinary mornings actually look like when you stop to look at them. That's the return.
This frame is from a Sunday in March. Bread on a board. The window light was doing something good for about fifteen minutes before it moved and flattened out. I have about eight frames from those fifteen minutes. This is the one I'd keep.
Being glad of life is not a grand gesture. Some days it is just: I made a decent frame of bread this morning, and I noticed the light. That is enough. The Feast series has the more formal food work. The prints page has what's available to buy. The portfolio guide has more on how I think about the work overall.