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The Cherry Blossoms Of Meadows Place

5/15/2019

No subject so defies attempts to artsy it up than cherry blossoms. Not that I haven’t done it. Not that I don’t always try. Over the years I’ve tried so many techniques, most successfully, some less so, that this series seemed to demand that it be left alone. So I did. Well, mostly I did. No more than the sharpening and exposure tweaks any traditional photographer would do in their darkroom. Just straight photographic captures, in this case using the macro setting on my Canon G series camera, assisted by perfect lighting conditions. Art through the technique of restraint

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Curtis Hendricks

All my life I have had to learn to do things differently. To see the world differently.

Art attracted me from the beginning. Almost every home in the tiny farming village where I grew up had DaVinci’s ‘Last Supper’ on the wall. I would come across modern abstract art in magazines and be absolutely fascinated by the colors and techniques.

But there were no artists in my village. No one understood what modern art was. Or why it was. But there was an appreciation for photography.

I began shooting with a 1960 model Agfa rangefinder fixed-lens 35mm camera and learned to use darkroom techniques to finish my work. Graduating to a single lens reflex camera I worked primarily with Kodachrome. Digital photography opened a new world. The computer became the artboard I never had; the darkroom I could never afford. I discovered there would never be a camera or a lens that could capture what I saw in my head – that, I had to learn to create on my own.

I use the photograph the same way a painter uses a charcoal sketch – as a starting place. I squeeze out the unseen hiding between the pixels; the angels, the demons of my own imagination.

Light. Color. Darkness. Perspective. Introversion. Mystery. Love.

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The Cherry Blossoms Of Meadows Place

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