a window...

Click on photo to enlarge - © 1972 jim otterstrom

as words become lost

he gazes to the window

where something is found

Original image taken in February of 1972 with a Nikon F Photomic using Kodachrome slide film/exposure data long lost & forgotten. Digital image copied from the original slide with a Bower High Defintion II slide-copier attached to a 5 megapixel Canon S2IS.

To me, this photo has always been a kind of metaphor for photography itself, which is like a reviewable window out from the cluttered thoughts of my gray matter, where I often find images that organize my ideas with form, clarity, and the color of light. Sometimes well before I fully understand what those ideas are about.