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Captured
A Celebration of the Photograph
Captured
Edited, Produced and Published by:
Gallery Different Paper Arts and Cre8it.com
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Contact: [email protected]
Volume 3 -Spring,2008
Thank You
To my wonderful photography students for lending their amazing
images (and words) to this publication.
Editor
As the images and experiences of the months of March and April
coalecsed into a “Spring” issue, my “feeling” for Spring evolved in
ways unexpected.
Our most familiar images of the season are of new shoots and
flowers being reborn out of melting snow, and birds returning to
feeders where they have been sorely missed.
Copyright
Captured, © March/April, 2008, Jessica Wesolek and Cre8it.com
All photographs and writings herein are protected by their creator’s copyright, and may not be reproduced or used in any way without permission.
If the photograph is available as a print, notecard, or stock image, it will be
noted on that page along with the creator’s contact information, and we
encourage your support of these artists.
In all of that glory, we often fail to notice the truly beautiful closing
acts of the waning Winter. Whole worlds are reflected in puddles of
mud, and snowbanks present a changing show of sculpture as they
disappear into those puddles. WInds carry seeds to places they have
never been.
For reasons as varied as Spring flowers, we were guided to combine
these two months into one Spring issue, and in the process, greatly
expanded our appreciation of this sweet transitional season.
Jessica Wesolek
Editor and Publisher
Harbingers . . .
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring!
To this small nook of earth;
Feeling and fancy fondly cling,
Round thoughts which owe their birth,
To thee, and to the humble spot,
Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
~ Bernard Barton
© 2008, Photo Credits, Left to Right: Dorothy Gibbs, UK/ Bev Wauer,MA/ Shelley Sisson/OR
© 2008 Ann Paine, Flimwell, East Sussex, UK
Nikon D300 F/11, 1/800, ISO 400, 105mm, Aperture Priority
The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so
common. If no one had never seen a flower, even a dandelion
would be the most startling event in the world.
- Unknown “This very moment is a seed from which the flowers
of tomorrow’s happiness grow.”
- Margaret Lindsey Dandelion, © 2008, Kim Winkeler, North Charleston, South Carolina
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30, 1/200, F5.6, ISO 80, FL420mm (35mm equiv)
Photo avialable for sale. Contact: [email protected]
Pussy Willow © 2008, Shelley Sisson, Milwaukie, OR
Nikon E8800, 1/60. F3.3, ISO 50, 71mm, Flash
““Will you walk into my parlor?” said the Spider
The temple bell stops, but I still hear
the sound coming out of the flowers.
to the Fly; “’Tis the prettiest little parlor
that ever you did spy”
- Mary Howitt -
Basho (Japanese Poet)
Photo ©2008, Barbara Bruemmer, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Canon Powershot S3 IS, F3.5,1/25, FL54.9
Photo ©2008, Mindy Clark, Portland, OR
Canon EOS Rebel (DSLR) 1/50, f2.5, ISO 200, FL 50
To Be?
I was a bud - so eager to BE!
Then I was a leaf on a vibrant tree.
I took my bows when the cold winds blew,
Then fell to earth in a carpet new.
I yearned to soar with the wind so free
But a blade of grass soon captured me.
I’m anchored here, a part of the earth.
What should I choose for my rebirth?
For once again, I’m eager to BE!
Perhaps this time, I’ll be the tree.
To Be ©: 2008, Gloria Dirla, Bay City, Michigan
A Question of Balance
. . . and he saw the tree above him, and the stars,
And the veins in the leaf,
And the light, and the balance.
And he saw magnificent perfection,
Whereon he thought of himself in balance,
And he knew he was.
From “The Balance” ©:1970, Moody Blues, A Question of Balance
Photograph “A Question of Balance” ©: 1988, Jessica Wesolek, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Minolta Maxxum 7xi, Film Based SLR
The flowers of late Winter and ear
occupy places in our hearts well o
proportion to their size. – Gertrude S
. . . imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking,
“This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole
I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it?”
- Douglas Adams -
“I’ll meet you ‘round the bend, my friend,
Where hearts can heal and souls can mend.”
- Baghdad Burning - Riverbendblog
Seven men stood around a mud puddle.
The whole world was in that mud puddle.
- Stan Steiner in “The Vanishing White Man” Photo: ©2008, Martha Siebert, Sedgewick, Maine
Olympus C-720
Photo © 2008, Steve Berte, Middletown, Maryland
Pentax K100D (DSLR) with 18-55mm lens set at 40mm with polarizing filter
Oh Mockingbird, have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard?
- Bob Marley -
We have been as usual asking the wrong question.
It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on
the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is:
Why is it beautiful?
- Bertrand Russell -
©2008, Kim Winkeler, North Charleston, South Carolina
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30, 1/400, F5.6, ISO 80, FL420mm (35mm equiv)
Photo avialable for sale. Contact: [email protected]
“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We build statues out of snow,
and weep to see them melt”
Sir Walter Scott
©2008, Debra E. Eibler, Negaunee, Michigan
Canon PowerShot A630, 1/250 , F4.1, FL29.2
Value yourself.
The only people who appreciate a
doormat are people with dirty shoes.
“It looks like I’ve worn out my welcome!”
– Bob Long -
– Unknown -
Photo ©2008, Bob Long, Western Massachusetts
Canon XTI w/50mm F1.4
Photo ©2008, Bob Long, Western Massachusetts
Canon XTI w/50mm F1.4
“When the tea is brought at five o’clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green ey
Is suddenly purring there”
- Harold Monro © 2008, Wendee Deal, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Canon Power Shot SD850
There’s no one to talk with-I’ll talk with my shoe.
He do have a tongue
And an inner soul, too.
Shel Slverstein (from Falling Up)
Photograph ©: 2008, Anne Stilley, Charlottesville, VA
Nikon D50, 1/60. F4.5, ISO 200
Fa�i� �e n� �ways � a people-like f�m.
Fa�i� �e s���� b�ds, s���� s�i��s.
- Elizabe� N�ek -
“T�k�g � a hydr�t � �e y�d �d wr��g
� a fauc� upsta�s � �e ho�e.
Op��g �e first tak� �e pre��e o� �e sec�d.
Rob�t Fr�t
©2008 Barbara Bruemmer, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Canon Powershot S3 IS, F3.5, 1/1600, FL 63.9mm
©2008, Debra E. Eibler, Negaunee, Michigan
Canon PowerShot A630, 1/1000, F4.1, FL29.2
Sunflower?
©2008,Jessica Wesolek, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Guerilla Photograph - A gas burner shot with an iPhone
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Rananculus, ©2008, Stephanie G. Brown, Prescott, Arizona
Canon S3 IS, 1/25th ( with Image Stablization!), f 4.5, ISO 80, FL 6.0
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in
If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of
who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a
maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man
butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
your soul by a flower in spring bloom,
Audra Foveo
- Chuang Tzu
©2008, Kim Winkeler, North Charleston, South Carolina
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30, 1/320, F9, ISO 100, FL420mm (35mm equiv)
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Photo ©2008, Jessica Wesolek, Santa Fe NM
Olympus E-500
Photograph: Mail, ©2008, Jessica Wesolek/Cre8it.com, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Olympus E-500, 1/200, F4.5, ISO 100, FL 256mm
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- Woodrow Wilson -
Sky, My Two Year-Old, ©2008, Jessica Wesolek/Cre8it.com, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Olympus E-500
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