Today was a lot of firsts for me.  A first trying out my new camera (a Nikon D750) a new lens (Nikon 14-24mm), and a first for walking as far as I did on my new knee.  I seemed to do pretty well although I’m on ice now, lol.  The image is of an arch at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.  It was a beautiful day and I had fun trying out my new equipment.

I’m not used to seeing things through a full frame camera, not to mention this kind of a lens.  I was mesmerized by what I saw.  It’ll be fun to try more architecture…….and I mean SOON!

Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California

“To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” – Ansel Adams

Previous Art of QuotationAnsel Adams: http://artofquotation.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/a-true-photograph-need-not/

More on Ansel Adams: http://anthonylukephotography.blogspot.com/2011/07/photograoher-profile-ansel-adams.html

DAYDREAMING

Jo Ann Tomaselli ~ Fine Art Photography

Dense fog rolled over the Intracoastal Waterway and the cloud-filled blue sky and glass-smooth water mirrored each other so perfectly that except for a thin strip of brown marsh, it was difficult to tell where the sky ended and the water began.

This extraordinary mist filled daydream lasted for hours and with familiar boundaries blurred, I felt as if I’d entered an entirely new terrain; as if I’d been lifted beyond this world and settled on another planet.  This mystical-magical ambiance brought to mind esoteric writings of mystics & scientists on the nature of reality and how a split-second moment of in-sight can shift perceptions of time and matter.

Albert Einstein, when talking about the subject of the mystical, had this to say:

“The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical…
To know that what is…

“The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator’s mind.”

– Kakuzo Okakura, 1862 – 1913, Japanese, writer, scholar, author “Book of Tea” (Painting “Teacup No. 2” by Jeffrey Hayes)