Slow Photography

Kenneth Lonergan, Provincetown Crier, 2010. William (Bill) Maynard , Provincetown Painter, at 93. David Mazochi 's post-apocalyptic carnival parade float called "Viva Las Vegas". Watching the parade: Lizard & Lick and Provincetown Police Officer, Commercial St. Sunday afternoon in the Provincetown Library. Stop And Shop Security staff with a customer in a July rainstorm. I have a passion for Provincetown and I love the people here. Part of this passion is an appreciation for the simple pleasures offered by this Cape Cod town. Then, there are the experiences I've had here. We were married in Provincetown on August 30, 2013. The week after our small ceremony, I met two old friends from my Denver childhood. Arriving by ferry, they brought their 13-year-old son to Commercial Street, and stayed near Commercial for a day. After swapping memories of past times in Colorado, they said they disliked Provincetown and told me they'd n...

  Copyright 2015 Jim Austin W ords and pictures can be more potent than either alone. Haiku photography combines an image with a short poem to link the essence of nature with human life. The idea is not to describe, but to allow readers to experience, in their imagination, the same feeling. This alluring form appeals to a spectrum of artists: there is urban haiku, Spring haiku-- even Hawaiian haiku. Why are photographers exploring haiku? Nature photographers in particular are drawn to haiku to capture singular moments. Street photographers also find that these poems expand their glimpses of human nature. Creating haiku challenges all of us to observe details in the immediate moment, with sparse, simple language. At the end of this article, I'll describe 6 steps to creating a photo haiku in Photoshop®. First, let's briefly explore haiku origins and then more modern haiku forms. Haiku Past: a wordless poem Tr...