Perspective In Photography and Calligraphy

Where you are physically and emotionally when you see something may determine if you notice it or not.
Think about color. I send my photography and design students to colormatters.com and colorsystems.com. These sites look into the way we see. They give us the science, physics and even the emotional side of our reaction to color or the lack of color.
Saturation, transparency, opacity and stark black and white cause a reaction within us. Calligraphy is art that places a word squarely in another's brain. It is the dance of the pen. It can be much more.
Photography is an ongoing experience of light. Whether light is striking photochemistry or a photoelectric sensor, it is creating an image. We then manipulate that image to make a connection to a fraction of a moment.
Romantic, yes. Hard work, yes. FUN!
A photographer/calligrapher/communicator is caught between the stress of the conflicting Chinese proverbs:
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A word is worth a thousand pictures.
Silence, the negative space in any image, is the golden portion.
What can we leave out? How can we reduce the clutter? How can we bring it down to the essential thought?
When we do, our writing reveals our inner mind and our photography exposes our true identity.

As I read you, I hear you, and when I see your pictures, I understand. Tim (c)

www.timjohnsonphoto.com