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100 in 365 Update

wooddickinson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:11:28 +0000

I have been able to work on several photos. Most are shot with the iPhone and others are finished with software either on the iPhone or iPad. Where accurate straightening was needed I used Lightroom.

Here is my statement:

“The main force that drives my photography is my desire to see things as they truly are and not through the metaphor of language. I feel language takes away our ability to see the uniqueness of the people and things that surround us every day.

I subscribe to Jacques Lacan’s notion of the Real. Lacan argues inThe Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis that we must usethe Symbolic and the Imaginary to connect to the world around us and the primary tool is linguistics. The Real is not the same thing as reality because our reality is composed of both the Imaginary and the Symbolic. The Real is opposed to the Imaginary and stands outside the Symbolic. In Lacan’s book, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954–1955 (W. W. Norton & Company, 1991) Lacan makes it clear that “there is no absence in the Real.” To see the Real is to experience a thing for the first time.

Click to view slideshow.To me this says what constitutes the Real is something observed in total. No filters blocking the view or imaginary ideas polluting the observation. In Lacan’s Seminar XI he defines the Real as “the impossible because it is impossible to imagine, impossible to integrate into the Symbolic, and impossible to obtain.”

I strongly feel it is the job of the artist to reach past the obstacles and capture an image as close to the state of the Real as we can. We bring it back and by showing it to others we give people the opportunity to encounter the Real even though it is shown through the interpretation of the artist.”

Ruins

wooddickinson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:16 +0000

Here is the latest on 100 in 365.2.

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100 in 365

wooddickinson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:52:32 +0000

I’m on picture number 3 out of 100 to complete in 2012. As I’ve been developing this project the process and material of the project has become clear to me. What I’m going to do is use only my camera on my iPhone 4s and I will use finishing tools either on the phone, iPad or Mac but no Photoshop, Lightroom or other pro tools. I’m also going to try to focus on small objects. This gives the project cohesion. Enjoy.

100 in 365

wooddickinson — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:16:33 +0000

Trilobite

I have started my 100 photos in 365 website. It is HERE. Please visit often. This image is TRILOBITE.

Monster #1

wooddickinson — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:41:28 +0000

Here is a shot of one of the monsters running around Mission Kansas.

Monster #1

Forest Path

wooddickinson — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:16:13 +0000

I am still pushing into photographs that have a darkness to them. I’m trying to look into those places in between where most people don’t. Part of the story of our humanity rests in these lonely places where darkness dwells even in broad daylight and fear seeps from the very ground. To try and pull this emotion together takes a combination of locating the image to photograph and then “seeing” it through this pair of glasses. That requires a lot of post processing but I see the original image they way it ends up and the struggle is to get the image to reflect what I’m seeing when I shoot it.

I am exploring the dark nature of our minds and how the everyday can suddenly take on a look that evokes fear, terror or unease. There is so much of this in the journalistic photographs we see everyday. To think that this fear and unknowing surrounds us all the time can be a very disturbing thought.

Forest Path

Window #3

wooddickinson — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:17:15 +0000

Window #3

Look closely for hidden images.

Darkness

wooddickinson — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:16:53 +0000

I’m working on a set of photos I am calling “Darkness.” I want to capture that feeling of old and lost. Here is one of the photos.

Darkness

Chicago Rain

wooddickinson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:42:06 +0000

On our last trip to Chicago we were met by rain and cold. I took this photo near the North Face store where Kathleen works. It has been added along with two other photos to 100in365 so check it out. I’d love some comments.

Chicago Rain

100 in 365

wooddickinson — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:52:24 +0000

The Tower

Well I got it off the ground. My new project is to produce 100 photographs in the next 365 days. Many will be new shots that I just took but I also plan on spending time working on older shots I did in film, both negative and slide. There is a wonderful thing that happens when film and digital are mixed that needs more exploration.

I am also going to spend much more time studying the master photographer. There is so much in their photographs and also keep broadening my knowledge in art in general. This is a developing website and I know over the next year it will grow and change as I learn more and find new emotions to express. Enjoy the humble beginnings. Go to HERE.