Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wonderful first step into the project. I highly recommend that read PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon. I have no doubt that it will inspire you explore your subject deeper than you're dreaming even now. Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Bill Clough wrote: > I started in photography about this time in 1960. By 1962 I had > a vague idea of a theme. I wished to capture the Texas Panhandle > and the adjacent areas around it. Not the Chamber of Commerce > Panhandle, but >my< Panhandle, where I grew up. It's cowboy > country--a land, then, at the end of the Dust Bowl. We still had > black dusters then, and cold fronts with sustained winds of 75 mph. > When they blew through telephone lines along the Santa Fe tracks > the sound was pure Gregorian. I stayed with the same theme for more > than 15 years and--truth to tell--had I some kind of grant I would > gladly spend an entire year trying to capture that area's many > moods. Its beauty isn't like that of Colorado, for instance. It > doesn't jump out at you; you have to find it. But it's there...some > of it, anyway. For the next 74 days, I hope to post one photo a day > of this essay. Sadly, most of the subjects are gone. I search for > landmarks and cannot find them. Now, they are only here.