Sandra Dodd

A photographer quoting another photographer, but this reminded me deeply of things we've talked about, about unexpected connections, and unseen futures. Yesterday I made a new page on unseen futures, and so cleaning out my e-mail this morning, I saw that I had missed one of these mailings.


Anthony Epes wrote:

This week I’m exploring that really cool concept of ‘indirect inspiration’ that I quoted in my post about Ernst Haas. To be honest, it’s not something I’d thought about much until I was writing about Ernst Haas and came across this quote. Haas warned against seeking too much direct inspiration as it “leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you,” and instead recommends you to “refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. In short, try indirect inspirations, and everything will come by itself.”

https://www.citiesatdawn.com/2015/07/16/four-ideas-for-inspiration/

I'm glad someone (Janine, I think) pointed me toward the Anthony Epes mailings. You can subscribe to his blog mailings, if you're interested in photography, or just looking at his photos, or reading about process and seeing and connections.

I know lots of photographs are being taken in and by unschooling families, too.

Because of a photo on a collage of photos on a Christmas card she sent me, I've been using photos by Chrissy Florence, on Just Add Light and Stir.
The one I loved so much, I haven't even used yet. I'm saving it to match up with a perfect quote.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y421/JustAddLight/ChrissyFlorence/Wagon.jpg

Our own children can be as inspiring as the great masters of music, painting and poetry, I think. Seeing, with love, our children's exuberant moments and peaceful moments can bring as much artistry to our souls as anything in the world.

Julie Daniel takes lots of photos of Adam, as I took lots of Holly (and still do). Adam and Holly both love to be in Just Add Light. :-)
I've taken photos of Adam, too. One of the set of magnets is Adam.
Julie's taken photos of Holly and Adam!
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2013/02/all-ages.html

If you search Just Add Light for "Julie D " you can see more of hers.

Photo by Julie, Holly's words
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2014/02/your-child-as-person.html

There are others whose photos I've used. I'll cite some in other e-mails, but if I leave you out, please forgive me. I get distracted and have many little projects building, and languishing, all around me. :-)

Sandra

Sandra Dodd

Lisa Jonick is in Albuquerque and I love her images.

http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2014/11/round-coming-around.html

http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2015/05/learning-to-see-differently.html

http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2013/11/sometimes-sitting-on-fence-is-good.html

Those are in Albuquerque, familiar images, but specially seen—of a park, with Explora in the back; at the zoo; chickens in her yard.

If you search Jonick in the upper left search box on the blog, you can see others.

Sandra

Rashmie Jaaju

-- "Our own children can be as inspiring as the great masters of music, painting and poetry, I think. Seeing, with love, our children's exuberant moments and peaceful moments can bring as much artistry to our souls as anything in the world." --  

I love taking (lots and lots of) pictures of my children, capturing the moments that delight and inspire me and send me running for my camera. 
Often, when I need a prompt for art or writing, I scroll through these pictures to be reminded of that event/anecdote that mesmerized me. Or, when they've gone to sleep, I scroll through the pics to go through the day in retrospect (yes, I take dozens of pictures every single day!). It helps me reflect on our interactions, their discoveries, our bond and makes me think of what was good and what not so good and how can I make it better....

Rashmie

Sandra Dodd

Sorry I got distracted yesterday and didn't continue my credits and thanks. :-)

Karen James took photos when her family visited Japan, and has let me use other photos of hers since then.

Because I didn't credit her properly a few times, there is a post with links here:
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2014/04/crediting-karen-james-for-photos.html

And you can look at her blog from the trip to Japan directly:
http://jamesfaminjapan.blogspot.com

I've probably used Karen's words as often as her photos, but we're talking about photos here. :-)
This has her photo and her words both:
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-gift-to-giver.html

http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2013/09/shhhh.html
has a beautiful sun-and-kayak image which is also here, which also has links to Just Add Light photos:
http://sandradodd.com/karenjames

Please spend a few moments clicking through those and feeling the peace and wonder in those images. Gather some up for your own use today. :-)

Sandra

Sandra Dodd

When I opened Just Add Light and Stir at the blog this morning (click on the title, in your e-mail, if you get them that way), I saw the geography of the photos. From the current Big-Bird photo backwards:


Long Beach, California
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Shelburne, Vermont
border of Colorado/NewMexico
Owslebury, Hampshire
Kuranda, Queensland
Leiden, Netherlands

The next page had Bea Mantovani's mermaid photo; I don't know whether they were in France or Australia.
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2015/08/fantasy-gifts.html

Another Vermont, Netherlands, some Albuquerque, and
this from Portugal:
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2015/08/babies.html

I do love the internet's current ease of photo sharing. These images are shared with you sometimes when they're freshly new. Sometimes (as with Kate Koetsier jumping hurdles in Hampshire) a few years after they were taken—flashbacks to younger unschoolers, now taller and living elsewhere and knowing more.

Writing doesn't do that. Ben Hur was written in Santa Fe and Indiana. I know this because the Santa Fe parts were written while the author was governor of the New Mexico Territory.
The Jungle Book was written in Vermont.

But photos, especially when I know the subject or the photographer, have a place and a time that writing can lose or hide.

Thank you for taking photos and for sharing them with your friends and relatives, and sometimes with other unschoolers. :-)

Sandra

Sandra Dodd

Janine Davies takes photos of her family doing fun things. There is light, in her photos, very often. Sometimes it's coming from lamps, or the sun, but as often it's coming from inside her subject.

http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/search?q=janine+davies

I think that link will lead you to a series of them.

http://sandradodd.com/janine has some others.

Her family plans to visit New Mexico sometime in the next couple of years, and I look forward to what she will see that I missed.

Sandra