As children we are taught to color inside the lines. And, we spend a lifetime trying to learn when not to. If we're lucky we reach old age knowing -- at least sometimes -- when we're being fed a line. In the intervening years, verbally or not, consciously or not, we draw lines in the sand, as it were, and then dare anyone -- even ourselves -- to step over them.
For me, more than anything, lines are connectors. Sometimes they are difficult to see – like the bonds of love among people. Oftentimes, though, they are like those lines connecting towns on maps – the better the map the easier it is to plot one’s course. It is lines such as these – connecting lines – that run through a photograph. Like maps and relationships, too, some photographs are easier to read than others.
My interest in photography began almost before conscious memory. My dad always had a camera with him; there was nothing better than being his assistant. In the decades since I blissfully held the camera cover or fetched filters, photography has become a daily contemplative activity through which I explore the landscape of my life, a lens which helps define the path I tread.
I hope you enjoy identifying lines in these photographs. It is my wish that they inspire you to consider the lines running through your days.
For me, more than anything, lines are connectors. Sometimes they are difficult to see – like the bonds of love among people. Oftentimes, though, they are like those lines connecting towns on maps – the better the map the easier it is to plot one’s course. It is lines such as these – connecting lines – that run through a photograph. Like maps and relationships, too, some photographs are easier to read than others.
My interest in photography began almost before conscious memory. My dad always had a camera with him; there was nothing better than being his assistant. In the decades since I blissfully held the camera cover or fetched filters, photography has become a daily contemplative activity through which I explore the landscape of my life, a lens which helps define the path I tread.
I hope you enjoy identifying lines in these photographs. It is my wish that they inspire you to consider the lines running through your days.