Dog Playground, Madison Square Park, New York City.
I’ve had dogs and cats as pet’s since I can remember. I’ve looked into their eyes and watched their body language trying to figure out what they’re thinking. But to be honest I really don’t know, I think I know but I am guessing.
The camera gives me a way of getting a little closer to approximating what my pets seeing. At least I think it does.
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Black birds in flight
Black birds flying at the break of dawn.
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Traditional Japanese Dance preparation, Pontocho Kaburenjo Theater
This young Japanese dancer was getting her make-up in preparation for a Japanese dance performance at the Pontocho Kaburenjo Theater in Kyoto Japan.
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Safety & security mirrors in Singapore
While photographing at a refinery in Singapore I came upon these mirrors used for safety in Singapore.
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Photograph by Dorothea Lang in 1937, Kern County, California. Photographed for the Farm Security Administration and now lives in the archives of the Library of Congress.
The human character has the capacity for doing good and being greedy. Throughout time a few power hungry people have tried and more often than not succeeded in dominating the many. The central hope within the idea of democracy is that we each have equal power to determine our way forward. That power is the vote. Fellow citizens and patriots through the ages have worked hard, sacrificed and fought so that the power of the state stays invested in the will of the people. We must protect that legacy and sacred RIGHT. It is our time now and we must work hard, sacrifice and fight for our right to use our vote and determine our future.
The insane amount of money being spent by both Democrats and Republicans borders on the vulgar and is an insult to the democratic process. Democracy assumes that we the citizens are intelligent enough to make good choices. The hundreds of millions of dollars being spent to advertise each parties message belies that concept. The very nature of the political advertising is an attempt to manipulate us, heat up our prejudices and exploit our fears. As one citizen I can and I will do the one thing I can VOTE.
Sumi tools and materials for calligraphy. Sumi stick, slate inkwell, calligraphy brush, sumi stick with finger impression by workman at Kobaien sumi factory in Nara, Japan.
While documenting Japanese culture for National Geographic Traveler, I had the opportunity to photograph at Kobaien in Nara, the oldest sumi shop in Japan. The city of Nara produces 90% of the sumi-ink in Japan. Kobaien sumi shop has produced sumi-ink sticks for calligraphy and ink painting for 400 years.
Sumi is made by collecting soot from burning pure vegetable oil, usually sesame or pauwlonia, and combining this with glue derived from vegetable starch. This is then shaped into sticks and dried. Ink is made by grinding the sumi stick in the slate inkwell called a suzuri until the desired consistency is achieved.
I requested Mr. Mitsuyoshi Nakano, chief at the Kobaien sumi shop, to have the workman making sumi press his fingers into a freshly made stick for me, shown here. Mr. Nakano then created the names Nara and Kyoto in Japanese calligraphy on washi, mulberry paper as a gift.
Kobaien sumi shop, 7 Tsubaicho, Nara, Japan Tel. (Nara 22)-4922
More images on Japanese culture in Kyoto & Nara.
Gnocchi with Grana Padano
“D” my photography associate and I were on assignment in Italy when we discovered the definitive Gnocchi recipe. We ate at the Trattoria Cavalino Bianco (The White Horse) in Novara. Their specialty is Gnocchi alla Radetzky. It was so delicious we returned the next night and ordered it again. I asked the woman who owned the restaurant about the recipe. She went to the front of the restaurant and returned with a framed newspaper story from twenty five years ago. It showed a man with a young girl at his side in a restaurant. She explained that the man was her papa and she the young girl. She shared that her family had been making the Gnocchi alla Radetzky for four generations. She insisted that the critical ingredient was Grana Padano cheese. She also pointed out that the Gnocchi balls were small and made with a light amount of flour.
When I returned to the U.S. I set about trying to replicate these light Gnocchi with the bright sauce and rich buttery broiled topping. I went to the definitive Italian cookbook, Italian Cuisine by Tony May (ISBN 0-312-30280-0, third edition). I made slight adjustments, making sure to use Grana Padano, keeping the balls small and going very light on the flour, just enough to shape the balls.
Trattoria Cavallino Bianco, Vicolo dell’ Arco, 2/a – Novara, Italy. Tel. 0321 393908
Tony May’s restaurant in New York City, SD26, Madison Square Park, 19 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010. Tel. 212-265-5959
August 31, 2012 Blue Moon
Neil Alden Armstrong an astronaut and first man to walk on the moon was laid to rest yesterday, August 31, 2012. Coincidentally last night was a “Blue Moon” (a second full moon during the same month). My sense of wonder was inspired by Neil Armstrong. Thank you Mr. Armstrong.
Photograph by Wayne Eastep is on display at the show “Amagansett Art: Across The Years.” Sales from the show benefit the Amagansett Historical Association. The building shown in the photo is the Hilton Leech house and Amagansett Art School in historic Sarasota, Florida. The house is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Hilton Leech lived and taught art in Amagansett, East Hampton, NY and Sarasota, Florida.
Wayne Eastep standing by his photograph of the Tien Shan mountain range in Kazakhstan. The Tien Shan are also know as the “Celestial Mountains.” The print is at the entrance to the exhibit “Nomads and Networks” at the Freer | Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Documentary photographer Wayne Eastep next to his print of a Steppe horse in the steppes of southern Kazakhstan. The print is part of the “Nomads & Networks” exhibit at the Arthur Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
Nomads and Networks: The ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
August 11- November 12, 2012
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Asian Art Museum of the Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.
Artifacts in the exhibition. Images from THE SOUL OF KAZAKHSTAN.
Wayne Eastep with Dana Masalimova, Third Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Kazkahstan and William C. Veale, Executive Director U.S. – Kazakhstan Business Association at the opening of “Nomads & Networks.” Arthur Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
The Exhibition has been organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in collaboration with:
Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Multifunctional Scientific-Analytical and Humanitarian-Educational State Enterprise “Nazarbayev Center.” Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
A. Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology of the Republic of Kazakhstan Museum of Archaeology of the Republic of Kazakhstan
The exhibition was made possible through support of the Leon Levy Foundation.
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