civilized ku # 5198-5200 (kitchen sink / kitchen life) ~ the last supper

the last supper ~ Burlington, Vermont (embiggenable) • iPhone

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Re: the last supper. The meal could have literally been my LAST SUPPER had the heart procedure the following day gone horribly wrong. Fortunately, as it turned out, it was just my last supper before the procedure.

civilized ku # 5194-97 ~ there and back again

Adirondack Mts., across Lake Champlain, from my Vermont hospital window ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone

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OK. It's been a while since I posted an entry. But, then again, I am a new man since my last entry - successful (so far) scarring of the interior walls of my heart (ablation) and, unexpectedly, my very own pacemaker - after the ablation my heart rate was 40bpm or a beat or 2 one way or the other. So it was deemed advisable to install a pacemaker to obtain and maintain a heart rate of 68-70bpm.

So, here I sit on light duty status for the next 3 weeks waiting for the pacemaker to phyically settle into my body and for the acommpanying incision to heal. FYI, the pacemaker insertion was performed while I was awake ("relaxed" but awake) ... I was able, during the procedure, to ask the surgeon, "Are you cutting me with the thingy that cauterizes the wound at the same time it cuts?" His answer was direct and to the point, "Yes. That's exactly what I am doing."

In any event, on our way home, we took the ferry across Lake Champlain on a very pleasant summer-like day. Which made for a very nice transition from a hospital bed to home.

civilized ku # 5190-93 (kitchen life) ~ taking the ferry across the lake

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I've been making pictures in the kitchen over past week or so. Other than life in the Adirondacks itself, my kitchen is probably my most fertile place for making pictures - an ever-changing tableau of stuff.

Off to Burlington today for my ablation - scarring the interior walls of my heart with the intention of permanently interupting the electric signals which cause my irregular heart beat (better known as afib).

civilized ku # 5189 / the new snapshot # 218 ~ sight and vision

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I am working on an entry which deals with the idea of the duality of vision. It's a difficult entry to get right.

My intention for the entry is to define for you my vision-as I understand it-and how I "found" it. The hope being that, in the telling, the reader may gleen some insight which can be applied to his/her search for vision.

Stay tuned.

civilized ku # 5187 / ku # 1416 ~ stop, look, listen pt.2

In my last entry I postulated a methodolgy for viewing photographs - STOP, LOOK, LISTEN. That is, STOP (thinking), LOOK (really look), LISTEN (to what the picture has to "say" to you).

With the exception of a single word substitution-replace the word picture with the word referent in the phrase after the word LISTEN and, iMo, you have the formula for making good/great pictures. Although, the sequence of actions for picture making should be amended to LOOK, STOP, LISTEN. Consider ....

LOOK(ing):

Real photography begins when we let go of what we have been told is a good photograph and start photographing what we see. ~ BROOKS JENSEN
Any thing and every thing can be pictured.

STOP:

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. ~ Ansel Adams
Simple enough, or so it would seem.

LISTEN:

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. ~ EDWARD WESTON
Forget the rules of composition and arrange the elements within your framing in the strongest manner possible to illustrate what the referent has said to you.