Phoenix

What is this blog about? In a nutshell, it's about black and white darkroom photomontage. Every few weeks, a new image with a few words about it, kinda poetic, philosophical. 

For more details - check out the archive, the first post, April 26, 2015.

If you like what you see here, go to: www.bobbennettphoto.net

There is an old myth about a 'phoenix'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix  (mythology)

So here's my 'phoenix', rising from the ashes, to be reborn.

Bob Dylan wrote:

'I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now'

Long before that, Rumi wrote:

'Only an empty vessel can be refilled'

They are both the same thought, aren't they?

I recently went back to this print... did some hand coloring:

Now it really soars, in more ways than one.

Two Views

What is this blog about? In a nutshell, it's about black and white darkroom photomontage. Every few weeks, a new image with a few words about it, kinda poetic, philosophical. 

For more details - check out the archive, the first post, April 26, 2015.

If you like what you see here, go to: http://www.bobbennettphoto.net

Always at least two ways to look at anything. Perhaps more. Stand a smile on it's head, it's a frown. Look closely?... and you'll miss the distance. Look afar, perhaps you'll overlook what's close at hand. 

Got to 'juggle'...& take in.. both perspectives. For a mere 25 cents each. 

You've got a quarter, doncha? You don't?? I'll spot ya one ;-)

Ah!... but the interest is steep....

No, I'm not Italian, just an unrecognized 'fine art' photographer. We're both 'hungry'.