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"The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say:  "There is the surface.  Now think-or rather feel, intuit- what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way."  Photographs which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation and fantasy."
Susan Sontag in On Photography

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Quarter to Twelve
The Panasonic Lumix 20mm f 1.7 really is a great little (25 mm long) lens. This was taken wide open, hand held, at the minimum focusing distance of about 20 cm. (8 in.). Yes it's been processed but only minimally, and also cropped to a square but it was pretty striking right out of the camera.

The image is of a burl clock I have hanging on the wall in my living room. It's never looked so good.

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