I'm still enjoying my "slow photo" experiments(becoming a norm actually). I'm hoping I'll adhere to the slower, waiting for the shot to compose itself approach with my newly acquired automatic lens(I've been using primarily manual prime lenses). Here I was taking my time walking around a local food fair and down the green parkway to the art museum. This shot was the last of the day actually on the way back. I believe the little boys mother had just walked past me ahead of him. I remember my mom doing that because sometimes they're tired and wanting to get home even though their little sons want more play time in...

Going to have to go with one of my favorite pieces of music with some musical greats performing it: Dave Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds

Today I watched a great interview with Garry Winogrand, a brilliant and unpretentious photographer that just truly loved taking pictures. The thing I appreciated the most was his joy in taking the pictures and how he didn't seek to over-analyze or intellectualize what he was doing. He also didn't place to much concern on technology or gear-that being said he did use state of the art equipment for his day-Leica range finder cameras, but that is understandable considering he was a professional. The key point is he didn't care about how a photograph came to be as much as how the photograph impacted him.

Wilco - Kamera

There was a long period of time that I would have identified myself as a street photographer. There is nothing wrong with that classification or tag and do love that theme. The more I've gotten into photography the more I want to shoot anything that presents itself to me as a challenge to capture well and I feel will create an interesting and hopefully engaging image.

When I go out on my walk for photo subjects I am always looking at everything and everywhere for interesting light, line and shadow.

I do much work in black and white but also love color when the colors are right for me. That is a very hard thing to explain but suffice it to say that colors tend to complicate the viewing of an image and often clash. That is why I do so much black and white conversion. This is one of my more successful color orchid shots to date. Hope you like it as well.

White Stripes - Blue Orchid

Sometimes we just don't! Nice father and son moment at the newly re-modeled ChingKuo Blvd., Taichung, Taiwan.

Neil Young - Old Man

Back in the day when I was first listening to Brian Eno having been a listening fan of his (yes I mention this to clarify that I didn't wait backstage for him) since his Roxy Music stint. His first few albums are total masterpieces of synthetic pop music relying on tapes, keyboards , talented musician friends and his great ear and creative mind. He of course went on to become mega producer working with David Bowie, Ultravox, the Talking Heads and U2 among other bands.

I knew back then he was very friendly with some early German "kraut rock" bands engaging in electronic rock: Cluster and Neu! in particular.

Back then budgets and access to music was restricted. So Cluster and Neu! were bands I heard about but never really heard until now. Enter the internet...I'm totally loving the simple but artistically beautiful sounds of these 2 bands and I can her their influences on Eno's music as well. Especially in the collaboration he did with David Bowie's Berlin trilogy: Low, Heroes and Lodger particularly on the b-sides of those records (to you youngsters that means on the second side of old LP format). The coolest thing about the internet is there is virtually no barrier to hearing all of the bands, musicians and performers you heard about or to seeing old performances you missed. I love the universal library aspect of the internet!

Neu! - Negativland

One of many visual subjects that continue to fascinate me is Tai Chi-a martial art/exercise regime often practiced by middle aged and elderly folks. I guess it's the graceful range of motions or postures that are produced in it's practice. It's flow is very fluid almost like a street ballet if you will.

THE KINKS-COME DANCING

For me the concept/image of floating gently encased in blue is very soothing.

OTIS REDDING: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

Went through a dry spell of photos during a wet 4 days. This was during a brief window during that time. I love shooting rainy scenes-just cautious about getting camera equipment wet. This is the old electronics/computer center of Taichung, Taiwan: JiGuang St. Now it's moved further uptown to Nova Mall.

Cluster & Eno - Base & Apex

It's been raining a lot here the last few days. I won't say it ruined a 4 day weekend but it made it less conducive for being outside photographing and more suitable for staying in doors. While indoors I got out some older photos and added some of my recent post-processing mojo...and voila!

Esperanza Spalding | Little Fly

A glimpse up the Damshui River on a short weekend trip to the big city. Stolen moment/frozen pixels...needed coffee to prepare me for many more frames to come that day. Some good ones at that...

Traffic & Jerry Garcia Mr Dear Fantasy