For the first time in my life I have thought about making a short film.  I credit this idea after having read David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. I know nothing about making short films but a large part of my excitement is simply because of that.  Plus, I can tie in some of my old writing with visual ideas I now have in mind.

Seagull, Southold, New York, 2009

Sometimes I’m not sure why I photograph what I photograph but I believe by doing so it leads me to a photograph I’m supposed to make.

Tahoe’s Biscuit, Syracuse, New York, 2009

George and I made this picture the last day I was at A River Blue.

It’s been awhile since I’ve made any photographs of my family but this afternoon I started photographing my mom again.  I like most of the photographs I make of my family.  There is a certain comfort and honesty I am able to create when I photograph them.  I believe it’s expressed during and through the created photographs.

Pictured is my mom floating in our pool.  Some days upon returning home from work she floats in the pool and either reads, naps, or does both.  I see the pool as a place of meditation for her; a place of peace.  If you think about it, we begin our lives in a water-filled sac, the womb, and maybe that’s why many of us like being in water so much.

She always looks so at ease when I photograph her in the pool.  I like seeing her at ease, relaxed, and restful.  She always looks youthful during these times.

It’s ironic, I suppose.  When I’m searching for my own peace I sometimes find and see it in others.

Mom in Pool, Syracuse, New York, 2009

Great story about the creation of Dan Winters’ “Peroidical Photographs” here.

“We did a lot of staring at the wall. Dan’s wife Kathryn would come by and bring us food and find us sitting in the exact same place she left us hours before and would ask, “are you guys actually working!?” But it was such fun, the little moves back and forth, the rearranging, the “oh, what if…” moments and the frantic searches for new pictures we had forgotten about.”

Dan Winters signing books (Image © ?)

I finished teaching my second NYLF Medicine session on Tuesday.  My scholars and I had a wonderful, worthwhile, fun-filled 10-days together.  They were the best I could have asked for!  Bunch of hooligans.. kidding.

Curie Group Portrait, July 6, 2009.

Sunset at JFK, July 8th, 2009.