Breathing the Photographic Dream with Daniel Milnor
Archive for November, 2011
One of the things I’ve noticed with modern photography is our expectation of being really good really fast. It’s so EASY to make pictures, so if we can make them so effortlessly then why shouldn’t we be able to make great work right away? Outside of the lucky situation, photography typically doesn’t work that way. I know for me it takes a lot of time, energy, practice and rhythm. Yes, rhythm. When I don’t shoot for a long period of time I actually have to get out in the field and shake the mental and physical dust off BEFORE I’m able to really work at a level that I’m satisfied with. So a few short weeks ago I taught a workshop in Victoria BC,…
Tagged: analog, ©daniel milnor, bc, canada, folding camera, fuji gf670, light, luz gallery, portra, portraits, rangefinder, smogranch, street, Victoria, workshop
lightening is flashing in the pitch black darkness promising thunder and rain as new light finds the day wet drops dot the dust answering prayers for rain giving new life again giving new hope again as promised
Tagged: ©daniel milnor, lightenings promise, mom, poem, poetry, smogranch, weather
Gonna start posting my New Mexico work here, in addition to the dedicated site, just to see if I can drive up the traffic. Get it..drive up? I thought I would start with a fitting image. Quiet desolation. Things change here. Rapidly. Alone, remote and six inches away from something terrible, but the ride is beautiful. The elements are very much a part of life here. “It snows in New Mexico?” I get asked by my California mates puzzled by where exactly this place fits on the map. . As my mom would way, “There is a bit of a nip in the air by Christmas.” #smogranch, #road, #©daniel milnor #new mexico project #documentary #snow #winter #conditions #wintery #storytelling #wildness 10 hours ago 5…
Tagged: analog, ©daniel milnor, desolation, film, isolation, leica, smogranch, the new mexico project, tri-x, winter
I just came across this film and wanted to share it with you. I met Philip years ago at the Visa Festival in France. I walked into the Hotel Pam and there was this guy at a back table on the patio. Tall, skinny and putting together a journal of some sort. I think you would be hard pressed to find a more unique individual, and I think this is also reflected in his work and his approach. When I found this film it made me think back to those days in France, and I also wondered, “Where the Hell are those negatives?” Well, seeing that they WERE negatives, I had them in my hand in minutes and in the scanner a few minutes…
Tagged: ©daniel milnor, Documentary, india, philip blenkinsop, photographer, smogranch