Thank you, Larry!
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Your pictures are, as usual, exemplary. I entirely understand your > ambivalence towards your father. The details of my struggles with mine are > different, but very similar. He's the one that started me in photography, > and although he tried to dissuade me from engineering for his own reasons, I > was drawn to it for a lot of the same reasons that he was. Interestingly, he > got back into photography at 42 by purchasing a Pentax, I got back into > photography at 47 by purchasing a Pentax. > > I don't remember a lot of feedback from him on my photos. I didn't ask for a > lot of feedback from him because he was the one person in the world I was > least able to take feedback from, no matter how correct it might be. But I > do remember his making comments about the way shapes lead the eye around the > page on a photo, and that is something that I've kept in mind since. > > He passed away a bit over 10 years ago and Thursday would be his 85th > birthday. > > > Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> This is something of a Father's Day tribute. >> >> I had a difficult relationship with dear old Dad, who passed last >> November at 91. He could be autocratic and controlling, but he got me >> started into engineering, around which my entire career was built. And >> he had a way of pointing out uncomfortable truths. I will never forget >> that moment when, after proudly displaying a collection of my early >> best-of shots to him, with a note of disappointment in his voice he >> said, "but there are no people in any of these." >> >> That stung, but that implied question drilled into my head and refused >> to be dislodged until I gave in and promised myself to try shooting >> people. What a revelation that was! Unexpectedly it has made me a more >> confident person, especially dealing with women, a major part of the >> population I've never been able to look right in the eye for my entire >> life. >> >> So to get concrete: here are my latest retouches from my most recent >> studio shoot with Dorrie Mack, an art/life model. I can honestly admit >> that these were only made possible because of my father's blunt but >> innocent observation a few years ago. >> >> Introspection >> http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/122023112647 >> >> Extrospection #1 >> http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/122023227947 >> >> Extrospection #2 -- NSFW >> http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/122023298972 >> >> >> Comments welcome. >> > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
