by: Tom Leininger
Hi,
I am not sure who you might be. I try not get sucked into Google Analytics too much. But due to a number of reasons, I am no longer going to post here. You can click here for the new blog. I am no longer interested in commenting. I hope to continue writing reviews for Photo-Eye, but as far as commenting about the state, I will leave that for others.
Thanks for coming by, and remember to update your reader.
Tom
Head on over to the Photo-Eye website and read my review of Jake Mendel’s book Short Track.
So earlier this morning I said that I was not going to put my blog Frame Lines on my server or into WordPress this week. Well, I was wrong. Not long after I wrote that I was struck with an idea. Go here to check it out. If anything I need to shoot, which is a good thing. So now I have my website, this blog and my photo blog all under the same umbrella and sharing similar design characteristics, which satisfies my inner German.
I am in the process of making my website mobile browser compliant. To do this I am using the Portfolio WordPress theme by Dalton Rooney. I have tweaked it some and will continue to for the rest of the week.
Checking out my old site on my wife’s iPhone made me realize the I needed to do something. I was about to use indexhibit after seeing the results David Bram was able to achieve. Shortly there after I came across Rooney’s theme and decided to go with that. I have WordPress here and on my teaching blog. I need to bring Frame Lines into the WordPress fold, just not this week.
If you are not reading this blog in an RSS reader, which you probably should, you can see that I have tweaked this place again. I went back to K2 because I wanted this to look like a blog.
This is the second Jay Maisel recording I came across this week. Over on The Candid Frame, Ibarionex Perello has an interview with him. Click on the December 20 button in the player.
George Jardine has interview with Maisel and Richard Benson here. Here is another interview, it needs to be read though.
Maisel is a photographer I have grown to appreciate. His work in color was not something that I was drawn to initially. Color work did not hold my attention early on because I was mainly using black and white film. Now when I read or hear him I am drawn to views of the medium. I am more interested in his newer work. Maisel is someone who has been working for a long time and now is exploiting digital for all it is worth. In the Perello interview, he says that he is now using higher ASAs and making pictures he would not previously been able to. That speaks to the power of digital.
The video is part of a series of Conversations at the Summit which is part of the educational programing from Rich Clarkson’s Summit Series of Workshops. If you are looking for a workshop I was strongly suggest this series. I have known Rich Clarkson for a number of years. He and his crew know how to put on an event.
A Longhorn and others with "Woman in His Pocket", upper left, during the Portfolio Review reception at Kettle Art.
My photograph “Woman in His Pocket” was selected for the Portfolio Review Exhibition at Kettle Art in Dallas. The packed reception was Friday, November 6, 2009. It is always interested for me to watch people looking at my work. I could tell people liked it, but for various reasons.
I had the pleasure of talking with Anne Bothwell from KERA who was one of the jurors. Again, I want to say thanks to Anne and the other jurors for selecting my photograph. I also want to say thanks to Frank Campagna and everyone at Kettle Art who put this on. This video popped into my RSS reader today. My photograph shows up at 4:01.
Portfolio Review: Opening Night from Cindy Chaffin on Vimeo.
One of the many photographers at the reception makes a picture.
If you get chance go by the gallery there is some really strong work in the show.
Well, I think I found a theme for the blog that I like. I have kept this one for about a week, so it is now here to stay. Also, I just updated the links. If I missed you, I am sorry, send me an email or tweet and I can get you on the list. I hope you like what you see.
The group MFA show “Launch” is up for one more week at the CADD Art Lab in Dallas. On Thursday night at 7 p.m. there will be an artists talk with Julie Barnofski, Angel Cabrales, Gabriel Dawe, Tim Harding, and Kyle Kondas all speaking about their works in the show. If you get a chance stop by.
I personally would like to thank Anne Lawrence and the galleries in CADD for giving us this opportunity.
So, this is it. I have narrowed it down to one blog. This one. I am sticking with wordpress and forgoing my other blogger blog. I have imported it, so everything is now in one place. I had to do it, two blogs were driving me crazy. Over the next week this blog will change a little cosmetically, but rest assured, it is now all here, and not going anywhere else. I can also be found on Lightstalkers, Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. You can occasionally find tdleininger on Skype. More than likely tdleininger is on Google Chat or on AIM with tdl50f2.So there you have it. I like blogger because I loves me some Google, but I decided to just stick with what I have here. Since a few of you have this RSS feed going. More to come.
I am honored and humbled to be a part of the new group show “Fathers and Sons” curated by Aline Smithson at Fraction Magazine. I have been photographing my children since they were born. Doing this I was able to see the joy and personal value of photography, something that had been missing in my life. Doing it also motivated me to go to graduate school. When I came to Texas, what had been my personal work took on a new focus. I was unsure it of because it is my family and had a seeming lack of gravitas. Well, I am not totally sure on how I feel about putting images of my family out there, but the project does have gravitas. I see that now.
When I made the decision to go to graduate school I was emailing any photographer who had an MFA whose work was remotely similar to mine. I cam across the work of Todd Deutsch, who suggested I look at the work of Brian Ulrich. I also found Dennis Chamberlin. All three of these men were kind enough to answer my questions about what graduate school I might fit in at. It is humbling that four years later I am included with both Todd and Dennis.
I do not know all of the photographers represented. I have been following the work of Timothy Archibald and Byron Wolfe for some time. But the others in the show amaze me. I need to step my game up. I need to be more intentional my camera, not just lazy with my mobile phone.
Like everything in photography, I think I am the only one photographing his kids in a serious manner. The internet reveals the truth, I am not. Places like Fraction Magazine really open my eyes to all of the amazing work out there. Thanks Aline for including Alex and I in this.