in honor of Denver’s proximity to the eye of the storm (also THIS WIND MAP).

“Over and over again the photographer walks a few steps and peers, rather comically, into the camera; to the exasperation of family and friends, he inventories what seems an endless number of angles; he explains, if asked, that he is trying for effective composition, but hesitates to define it. What he means is that a photographer wants form, an unarguably right relationship of shapes, a visual stability in which all components are equally important. The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

“Pictures that embody this calm are not synonymous, of course, with what we might see casually out of a car window (they may, however, be more effective if we can be tricked into thinking so). The form the photographer records, though discovered in a split second of literal fact, is different because it implies an order beyond itself, a landscape into which all fragments, no matter how imperfect, fit perfectly.”

From “Denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974,”
Robert Adams
Jun 01, 2009 
136 p., 9 x 7 13/16 
117 tritone illus.

Yuba Lake, UT 2, 2009 
From the series Lakes and Reservoirs 
C-Print soaked in Yuba Lake water 
30” × 40”
Matthew Brandt 

Florida at Night (NASA, International Space Station Science, 10/31/10)