“Stars” – Van Gogh
“I have a terrible need of —
shall I say the word? —
religion.
Then I go out and paint the stars.”
– From letters of Van Gogh to his brother
Image “Taos Tree, Jupiter and Mars”
© 2013 Heidi Straube
The Inner Path of Photography
We yearn for the taste of the sacred…and through our cameras discover it, the world, and ourselves.
Category: Photographs, Images, Film
July 29, 2013
July 14, 2013
New Photo-Zine for the Mind and Soul – Jason Eskenazi
“Dog Food for the Mind and Soul” – (NY Times, Jason Eskenazi, new zine)
I love this new photography and writing creation – highlighted in the New York Times “Lens” blog – a newspaper started by the very talented Turkish photographer Jason Eskenazi and friends – other international photographers and writers – that came out of a frustration with the limited scope of how photo students were being taught to see and think.
I’m inspired by it all – the overall concept, the very personal approach of the interviews (and how they are handwritten), fun attitudes, and – most of all – the fact that this zine is meant to be touched, handled, passed around in its physical form, not as a digital screen product.
More! More!
(Yes, of course, I want a copy!)
July 1, 2013
“Run”
Run my dear
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.
Run like hell my dear,
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the sacred, tender vision
Of your beautiful heart.
– Hafiz
Image: “Bosphorus Birds” © Heidi Straube 2013
Larger image – Inner Path Photography website
March 4, 2013
“One of Those Poems”
Write some more of those poems
he said dreamily
I love your poems, they are very beautiful…
So here is one
For You.
*****
I love how you always find the
Laughter
In the midst of life’s hardest situations
Always a playful story to be spun
That brings the
Light
back in.
What god have you descended from
to make You be
so Wise?
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