Balance

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, philsophical.
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

Balance is an interesting word - it describes something physical. And also many things metaphysical.
Someone wanders out along a huge driftwood log, definitely needing a good sense of balance - or else!
A weight scale looms in the distance, measuring... some sort of balance - the scale itself is a physical balance - put things in the tray, and add weights to the opposing tray to ascertain 'equality' of some sort.

Your whole life is a balancing act of sorts, you will always be making choices, decisions. And it's all a one way street. Yesterday will always be history, today a prelude to tomorrow.
Perhaps it's like the lyrics in a John Hiatt song - "walk on, don't ask questions, don't you try to understand...".


Here's another commenmt on that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/opinion/david-brooks-the-small-happy-life.html

"To Have it all" is this image's title

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, philsophical.
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

An abandoned safe sits in the sand, filled with rocks... out of which springs a mystical hand, fingers outstretched, reaching into the landscape for... what?
The rocks in the safe have no value, so what do you do then? - 'when you have nothing, you've got nothing to lose.' ( Bob Dylan wrote this lyric many years ago, it's a very good one.)

What do you reach out for, physically or spiritually? Now there's a question that one can answer the first part of... the second part is a lot more complicated, but much more rewarding than reaching for a cheeseburger.
Perhaps it's the 'reaching out spiritually' part that is important.

A different kind of window

 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, philsophical.
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
Or check out my other blog which talks about the darkroom work I get into:
http://californiasilverwizard.blogspot.com/

A very severe Nevada landscape, a rock wall hundreds of feet tall, carved by geological and hydrological forces too massive for us to wrap our heads around. Overlaid with an abandoned window in the ghost town of Bodie, a Ca. SHP.
Much has been written about the American SW desert, trying to explain why it is so entrancing, mesmerizing, inexplicable. I am reading a book by William Least Heat Moon titled 'Blue Highways'. Somewhere in there that I didn't earmark the pages were excellent ruminations about the desert.
There's a lot of nothing there. Thanks to the lack of tall vegetation (like back east - trees!), you feel like you can see forever, miles and miles and miles. Of what might seem to be nothing.
But somewhere in 'nothing' is everything. And this rock wall would be mute if you were to ask 'how? when?...'
So perhaps this image is about the window that this nothingness and inscrutability can be.