Photos from Gin’s winter 2010/2011 collection.
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Past Photo Seasons by Gin Getz
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Gin Getz
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April 19th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Your photographs are just gorgeous. I really enjoy looking at them. You are a very special person Gin, so glad to know you.
April 19th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Thank you, Bobbie, and honestly, the same to you – you and your family have been a wonderful inspiration.
May 16th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Looking at your pictures and understanding what they mean by a picture is worth a 1000 words .But in your case a picture and a 1000 words makes you think are there with you seeing what you are seeing.A rare quality to say the least .
May 18th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Don, thank you, sharing the view before me – and the thoughts inside me – that’s indeed what I hope to do. Easier here in a beautiful place, though how I look forward to the challenge of finding greater (or different?) beauty on a different mountain. And sharing that as well.
November 14th, 2011 at 8:48 am
Your photos are beautiful. They are soothing in their beauty and wilderness. Thanks for stopping by my blog – it allowed me to find your lovely work. I look forward to reading and seeing more!
November 14th, 2011 at 9:16 am
Could you please share where these photos were taken? The scenery is just wonderful and if it is in the USA I would like to show my husband (he is German and we just moved back to USA).
:)
thank you for sharing these!!!!
joanna
http://www.khamillion.com
November 14th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Thanks so much, Joanna. Most photos were taken from our Colorado ranch (www.lost-trail.com). It is a quiet, remote and removed location high in the southern San Juan Mountains. With, as you can see, plenty of scenery and snow!
November 15th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
wow these are stunning!
November 21st, 2011 at 8:48 am
What wonderful winter shots! Lovely. (Still waiting for the snows to arrive over here in Sweden. They are late this year!)
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:27 am
Thanks so much, Ladyfi. I’ve recently moved to northern Washington State, and much to my (quite happy) suprise, there’s plenty of snow here too! I look forward to trying to capture the essence of a new mountain and sharing it with you soon.
December 5th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Hi Gin, Thanks for stopping by my blog and clicking “like” :-) You have some great photos here.
January 17th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
Gorgeous photo’s !!
February 1st, 2012 at 10:28 am
ditto (all the previous comments)
That first photo in the second series (Past photo seasons) could be a painting. In fact, you should paint it. Magical.
February 1st, 2012 at 10:43 am
Thanks, Pia – how come I never saw your blog before now? Your photography is wonderful – fascinating – your perspective and such intimacy in your exotic travels…
February 1st, 2012 at 11:21 am
You know, Gin, I have a VERY basic camera and I think it is perhaps that in many of the places I’ve traveled (eg Burma or Namibia) it’s enough to point your camera in just about any direction and click and the photo will be wonderful, because of the sheer magnetism of the surroundings.
Mirek got me to start this blog a few months back to put photos up and to record some memories. It’s more of a personal sort of scrapbook and I don’t do anything to promote it other than sometimes putting something on facebook.
February 1st, 2012 at 4:59 pm
I too have just a “point & shoot” camera for now. Looking longingly at a fancier model, hopefully soon! So… between the two of us, we show that one can have a good eye even without good equipment. However, I don’t doubt better equipment might make our work… better.
A fun and exciting challenge for the future…
February 2nd, 2012 at 12:39 am
I have, on occasion, been tempted to splash out and get something better, but you know… I sort of feel it would restrict me. I mean, I have my little camera in my pocket (it can even fit in the back pocket of my jeans!) or in my handbag and I carry it with me almost everywhere so I can take photos of something I notice that I find interesting or there is an interesting light falling somewhere.
Now, if I had a fancier (ie: inevitably heavier and more bulky) camera, chances are I would feel “Ok, I’m going out now to take some photos” rather than the more spontaneous “Oh, that’s interesting, I think I’ll take a photo”.
Having said that, a few of the ‘better’ photographs in Africa in my blog were taken with Mirek’s (much better!) camera, so he gets to carry the heavy equipment:)
February 2nd, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Sounds like we have the same camera, Pia ;)
And you’re right; there is no substitute for its convenience.
However, seeing the quality of prints from my camera side by side with my colleagues, I do get a little camera shy, so to say. A nice way to say slightly embarrassed! I know I have to bite the bullet. It will not suddenly give me the ability to take great photos, but I believe it will make the ones I do take just a little bit better. (I will take all the help I can get)
February 3rd, 2012 at 2:49 am
I understand what you mean about the benefits of having a better camera. I agree and know that I will want, one day, to own a good quality camera. Just so long as one is still able to catch the soul of a scene; some photographers with good cameras spend so much time polishing the quality of their photographs, that they sometimes lose the essence of the image, I find.
But that is not something one can say about this woman’s work (with her Leica). She manages to combine poetry into her photos which come over like paintings to me (as you can see, I like anything that can be ‘painted’). Her English is very poor, but I think you might find it interesting to watch this short TED talk of hers where her photos are also displayed:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/monika_bulaj_the_hidden_light_of_afghanistan.html
February 3rd, 2012 at 7:24 am
Wow, Pia. I should say something more profound, but I’m rather speachless. Powerful in the quietest of ways. How could you hold back tears?
February 4th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
With difficulty :)
April 18th, 2012 at 7:11 am
Stunning..Beautiful
October 1st, 2012 at 1:52 am
Your photography is so beautiful!