I Shoot People

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It’s a quiet summer’s morn. The coastline of Lake Michigan is still and few birds seem interested in foraging along this stretch of coastline.

I love these stripes of sand, pebbles and grasses that are so common in Southern Wisconsin.

Wisconsin summer suns are wonderfully bright and delightfully intense, especially under the early morning sun. Which, in fact, is always special….. Morning light. Incident rays. And wonderfully reflective surfaces.

Hmmmm…. it almost makes me wish it was summer all over again.

Architecture is not only functional, it’s also beautiful. At least it is to some of us.

A recent opportunity to photograph interiors of the Calatrava Wing of the Milwaukee Art Musuem netted this image.

It’s a HDR version of the central foyer.

Patterns, texture, repetitions: they are what life is all about. Our lives pass with a texture unique to the individual. Our history, genetics, and education determine the patterns, or route we take through life. And our character determines the decisions we repeat over and over again.

From overview to detail study the interior view offers detail upon detail for us to pay attention to, and the positioning of the exterior wings changes those patterns by the moment.

Architecture is a metaphor for life.

Youth is the same in any language. And teenage is the time of dreams and adventures.

How many young girls have stood in front of shop windows dreaming and imagining a moment, a date, a lifetime? How many dresses, and handbags, and pairs of shoes and baby outfits have fueled fantasies — or perhaps postcards or backpacks or skis — because today’s woman is not one-dimensional and she is interested in just as many things as men.

Ah, but a woman’s way with shopping is unique.

Most of the men I know go out buying — we know what we want before we leave the house — we hunt it down, make our purchase, and return to our lair.

But a woman… not so much….

Longing glances, tried-on-outfits by the dozen, a myriad of shoes…. No…. whether she be a young girl like this or a full grown woman, shopping and longing are inseparably tied.

I’ve been playing around with High Dynamic Range images again. This one of the Calatrava came out nicely.

Sometimes reality isn’t; and fiction is more real than life.

A little HDR for you.  Wyalusing State Park, near Prairie du Chien, WI