There it is. The world's first (documented) photograph. It is a heliograph, taken in 1826 by French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce which required him "exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours [an estimated eight] on his windowsill" [National Geographic]. It's a shoddy image by today's stands, but one can only imagine the almost … Continue reading Views From New Windows
The Decisive Moment
My favorite photographer is Henri Cartier-Bresson. In addition to being amongst the stealthiest of photographers (rumor has it that he could finish several rolls of film in a crowd without anyone even remembering that he was there), he had an uncanny ability to capture moments. Cartier-Bresson said the following of photography in the preface to … Continue reading The Decisive Moment
Writing Is Prayer 