The Inner Path of Photography

We yearn for the taste of the sacred…and through our cameras discover it, the world, and ourselves.

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April 25, 2010

NPR.org – On Sondheim: The Musical-Theater Legend At 80

For artistic inspiration!

Here’s a wonderful interview with Stephen Sondheim, Broadway composer (among other things)…interesting thoughts about creating, being an artist in the world…enjoy especially the last 5 minutes where he talks about “the creative moment” and getting totally lost in the flow of time.

There are also audio clips of some of  his music…I love the last song in the interview “The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened…”

Stephen Sondheim is 80 this year…lots of tributes happening in New York this week…and he’s just finished a new show!

May we all be as alive and creative throughout our lives…

Interviews like this really inspire me and also remind me of the great respect I have for creative people at the top of their game…may this interview support your art and life also…

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD….

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April 23, 2010

Artist’s Inspiration: Film at the Menil Collection, Houston tonight

It’s important for me to hear/see/experience what other artists are doing….it inspires my own work, giving me new ideas to work with, or reminding me of old ideas that I’ve forgotten. So in that vein…

Tonight the Menil Collection in Houston is showing a film about Braque and Picasso…sounds wonderful…here’s their description:
“In 2007, New York¹s Pace-Wildenstein Gallery owner Arne Glimcher, and gallery director Bernice Rose (now curator of drawings at The Menil Collection), organized an exhibition (and book) that explored the neglected influence of early cinema on Picasso and Braque¹s revolutionary art movement, Cubism. At the Menil Collection, Bernice Rose will introduce the program.”

hmm, pretty dry. Here’s what they put on Facebook!

“Come to the Menil tonight for a FREE film screening of “Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies” and discover the unique impact of film on these artists and their revolutionary art movement, Cubism.”

I like that better 🙂

The Menil is a beautiful space, including the grounds, exhibits, people who run the organization….the program is free…how can you not go?

More information here…

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March 5, 2010

Impromptu signature images…Part 3 (Taos Gorge, New Mexico)

So now I’m in Taos…went for a long drive yesterday afternoon, getting more and more frustrated that I can’t possibly capture the expansiveness and big sky, big land feeling of this special area (that’s a whole other post!)…

Then got to the Gorge, where there’s a great path where you can walk for miles and be in the middle of all of that big sky and expansiveness…Taking a break on my walk, sitting on a rock in the middle of the sage with mountains all around, fresh air, big sky (ok, I know, enough of the big sky thing!) I remembered that a friend of mine the day before had asked me to send a self-portrait of me in Taos.

“Here’s what I would like, Heidi: Please send me a picture of you in front of the adobe house where where you’re staying with the Mountain in the background and the beautiful blue sky and  all of the things you’ve been telling me about in the picture…” uh-huh, right, such an easy request to fill…

So I pulled out my magic self-portrait solution…feet in Taos!…and here’s the result:

"Dreaming at the mountains"

So that was fun…but wait! I have another self-portrait that I’ve worked with before, and may include in my travel barrel of tricks.

Here it is:

"Reaching for the sky"

So…in summary…go with the fun, play with your day, and shoot every way you want with yourself in the picture! It’s fun and gives your friends a whole new way to share your experience with you.

Where are yours? Let’s see!

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March 5, 2010

Impromptu signature images…Part 2 (Beach, Martha’s Vineyard, MA)

Then I was in Martha’s Vineyard last summer, sitting on the beach, and wanting to capture the exquisite beauty I was seeing and feeling as I basked in the sun, heard the sound of the waves, and felt the joy of being at the beach and living the life I was living.

How could I share this visually with my friends?

Here was the next “Heidi’s feet self-portrait”…

"Dreaming at the beach"

I like this one a lot…every time I look at it I can feel the warmth of the sand, and the desire to be there right now (well, not right now, it’s still snowing there…this summer again?:)

Back to the  theme of impromptu signature images, however…

Since I love the beach, I started using this image for fun profile pictures, like Facebook etc…and it has hung in there for a long time. Once again, it reminds me of my playfulness and the fun times in my life…and how photographing doesn’t always have to be this big serious experience in order to give you pleasure.

I hadn’t really realized that it had become a signature image, however, until one of my fellow photographer friends one day sent me a picture of his feet where he was in Ecuador…and then the fun began.

What a great way to take travel pictures…personal self-portraits of our experience everywhere we go! (And much easier than trying to balance those Peeps marshmallow things for the fun National Geographic Easter photo competition last year.)

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