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  Gallery Five    Gallery Six     Gallery Seven    Gallery Eight    Gallery Nine

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About the Galleries

Cameras: Sony Mavica/ Vivitar Magnacam 1025X1 Binocular Digital Camera/ Canon Power Shot 560/ Samsung Blackjack Cell Phone v Camera via AT&T: Nikon P90 CoolPix. 
All photos following Gallery 9 will be in a different format and shot with the Nikon P90.

The "everything is made of light" subtitle I selected for the galleries is from the book "The Four Agreements" by Mexican spiritualist don Miguel Ruiz.  Ruiz is a well known teacher of what is called the Toltec Wisdom throughout Mexico.
With all due respect, in using this quote LightBookproductions does not necessarily in the promotional sense, advocate the teachings of the Toltec Wisdom, although we did find some of the ideas in "The Four Agreements" potentially constructive as they would apply to self-inspection for the purpose of improvement, like some of the rare psychologically rewarding self-help books such as Stephen Covey's "7 Habits" written here in English.
I was curious and browsed through the book in a bookstore while on a lunch break from a digital publishing class in Panama City, Florida, and recognized some spiritually constructive elements from both Christianity and Zen in "The Four Agreements."
"Everything is made of light" specifically reminded me of The Book of Genesis, when God said, "Let there be light." 
The phrase also brought to mind what I believe to be the incredible beauty of digital light on computer screens.  2005

Galleries One through Five

The camera was a $350 Sony Mavica purchased at Wal-Mart in 1999, perhaps viewed now in the world of photography as a Model -T Ford about the size of a motorcycle.  I purchased the camera because I got tired of having to wait for the film photographs to return from the developers who were not on site at the newspaper office.   With the Mavica I could essentially write, design precisely, and  produce my articles and features, or at least file them in a designed format as soon as I got back to the office computer.  

My interest in digital books, like the Amazon and Sony products recently put on the market, dates back to the late 80s and early 90s.   I pictured in my mind at the time a product almost exactly like the Amazon and Sony digital books now on the market.

My interest in digital books, or the book format in digital presentations, I hope to develop more via the website sometime in 2009. 

Gallery One     Gallery Two     Gallery Three     Gallery Four     Gallery Five

Gallery Six

The photographs in Gallery Six were taken in the Feather Sound area of Clearwater, Florida, during the second half of 2005 with a Vivitar Magnacam 1025X1 Binocular Digital Camera. The digital, or pixel magnification of this camera did not match the impressive binocular zoom, that I had mistakenly presumed it would produce.
So in order to make the best of a severely limited image producing situation, I found, with the exception of only a few photos, I could be more productive with this camera just working on some abstract ideas.
It may not be evident to the viewer, yet in the process of having to use a camera with such limitations, I learned a great deal about several existing interests of mine, that is, water, light, and the profound spiritual simplicity and everyday discipline that informs the art of classical Asian painting and calligraphy, as well as the art of war that the Tom Cruise character praised in the movie "The Last Samurai."  Gallery Six

The next phase of the photo galleries will begin and be produced some time in 2009 with a much more powerful and technically advanced digital camera I plan to purchase, which will allow me to produce the improved quality of photograph I had in mind when I purchased the Vivitar Magnacam. 

Galleries Seven & Eight & Nine

Galleries Seven, Eight, and Nine are just random experiments with a Canon PowerShot 560 (Seven & Eight), which I borrowed from a colleague at work, and shots taken with my Samsung Blackjack AT&T cell phone (Nine). 
The photographs in Galleries Seven and Nine will be edited later along with other photos on file and the photographs selected for those Galleries will periodically change. 
The Chinese character鳥(Gallery Seven) is translated simply "Birds."  I wanted to use the Chinese character because a Chinese woman named Nadine Lin from Canada took one of the photos of morning sunlight over Tampa Bay with my camera phone while I was driving across the Howard Franklin Bridge at about 75 mph with both hands on the wheel. The Oriental character also gave me a chance to highlight my appreciation for oriental calligraphy, design, as well as classic oriental painting and brushwork. 
The colors and cloud formations during the intense early morning sunrise over Tampa Bay are sometimes extraordinarily beautiful.   After returning to Canada Nadine went to LightBookproductions.com and sent me an email complimenting the site: especially the "Calligraphy in Water" shots. 
I also appreciated her email because she said the "Calligraphy in Water" photos reminded her of her homeland.  So I was right in seeing a suggestion of Oriental calligraphy in the way the slow motion of the water changed the form of the object's reflection in the water.  The object is a parking lot light pole near a pond. 
The Chinese character as a link is also a powerful graphic touch by itself. 
Gallery Seven,  Gallery Eight, and Gallery Nine

Certainly some of the themes, as well as individual shots taken with the Vivitar, Canon, and Samsung cameras will be continued and/or re-shot with the Nikon P90.  Thank you for your visit to the digital photo galleries, and hopefully with the Nikon P90 we can technically take the galleries to another level, which has been the intention all along.

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