Penimimal
“One should not only photograph things for what they are, but for what else they are.” — Minor White
I have not been out in the wild making landscapes for a while now. Almost a year. However, I have found new subjects to explore. San Francisco, obviously, remains my favorite muse. California is my darling. But at home, I have been exploring how to push myself creatively. And one arena I have been exploring is fountain pens — my other lifelong hobby.
I write with them. I cherish them. I collect them. What I wasn’t doing was photograph them.
I also found that most fountain pen photography is quite boring. The sameness of it. Product shots, meant more for a sale than for enhancing the beauty of objects so lovingly created. I wanted to do something different. More abstract. More me.
As the philosopher Dōgen said: “Not to seek reality
