Serenity, Fantastic Fake Beasts, and Private Dancing, and the Assignment With Hands

Happy Friday everyone. I hope you enjoy the newsletter today.

Bermuda. Photograph by Don Giannatti

Welcome to the Friday edition of In The Frame.

Fridays are part of the paid subscription plan, and I try to deliver maximum interest. Actually, I try to do that with all the stuff I post.

This week, we talk about what and why to shoot photographs to calm us down and give us some inner tranquility, why Adobe didn’t just kill creativity, what Tina Turner represented, and access to the P52 Legacy Assignment, the one with the hands.

There is so much chaos in the world right now. At least seemingly so. And chaos is the kryptonite to many creative people.

I know it is to me.

I don’t mind a little chaos once in a while, or when things are going a hundred miles an hour, there’s no one at the wheel, and the deadline is looming ahead like a sheer rock wall. That can be exhilarating.

But when it is a constant drone of disorganized or badly organized surroundings with seemingly nothing to moor on, I do have to find some respite.

I can do that on my motorcycle a couple of times a year. Or for short times when I sit at the piano trying out new chords.

But my main art is photography, so I translate the feeling of needing a bit of serenity into the making of photos.

So let’s make photos to calm ourselves and breathe easier. That’s better than sitting around worrying about the end of creativity or something… ya know.