I Am A Camera

Greetings,

"I will tell you the secret," said the owner of a silver shop in Istanbul.

"Be honest. If you rip someone off, if you cheat them in the slightest, you will lose them and then you will lose others."

"Thank you," said the stranger. "You have taught me a valuable lesson."

Later in the day. Made images with a new workhorse, a Nikon D200 dream machine optical tool. It's been ten plus years since I enjoyed the pleasure of using Nikon in the pre-digital era. It's a great feeling to be using them again and this thing, while heavy and bulky, has the technological requirements I need. It gets the job done.

Visual experiments. "Shoot through things."

Breathe and squeeze.

Smile, laugh and sing.

Move slowly.

The excellent Museum of Archeology. A vast historical perspective at the crossroads of civilizations; Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Persian; sites, excavations, stories of conquest and development.

Cuneiform "writing" symbols from Sumerian culture.

Greek and Roman statues and sculptures. How the Greeks idealized the human form and the Romans focused on realism. Apollo, Aphrodite, Pan, Marcus Aurelius, Sappho the poet.