Poetry To sleep perchance to dream Jon Hillenbrand, July 6, 2007December 30, 2015 I was walking on a city street that looked like it had been frosted with gray ash. All of the businesses were closed, their windows unwashed. I was looking toward a crowd of people who were heading in the same direction past me, homeless refugees pushing shopping carts full of…
Photography We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction Jon Hillenbrand, June 23, 2007October 17, 2019 Aesop wrote the title of this post about 600 years before Christ was born. And though more than 2500 years passed before the city planners of New Orleans ignored this warning, they now have an opportunity to do something about the destruction. And so do you. High resolution images are…
Photography Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die Jon Hillenbrand, June 22, 2007October 17, 2019 I photographed a survivorship event tonight at a Cancer support center. All of the attendees either had or have Cancer. There was a beautiful woman who’s hair was just starting to grow back. She demonstrated her confidence by not wearing a wig. The decor of the center was interesting. Art…
Photography Confessions from the Barbarian King Jon Hillenbrand, June 22, 2007October 17, 2019 Who knows what inspires us. I recently smelled someone I had not seen for a while, and I swear I could smell her for the rest of the day and into the next. One of my tricks to get someone to look like they are thinking is to ask them…
Photography Not a stone, just a man Jon Hillenbrand, June 15, 2007October 17, 2019 But I gather no moss. I went running tonight, for the first time in a while. What was my motivation? Some show on TV of overweight British women trekking through the jungle. I didn’t have one of those moments where I said to myself, “If they can do it, so…
Photography Sweet as a field of grass Jon Hillenbrand, June 13, 2007October 17, 2019 Life is Beautiful, but it’s complicated. I looked up the song title “Life is Beautiful” today at Barnes and Noble, and 60 entries came up with that as the song title! 60! It’s plagiarism gone amok! And, of course, the version by Vega4 wasn’t listed, which was the only version…
Photography The gourd of life dries out and is later sold in a road side market Jon Hillenbrand, June 13, 2007October 17, 2019 Well, that last blog entry now seems a bit harsh to me. But that’s what I was feeling at the time. And it’s a blog. So it includes the present but only in the past tense. Work is getting slowly but surely easier for me now. Instead of 15 things…
Photography Hitting the Wall Jon Hillenbrand, May 16, 2007October 17, 2019 They exist out there waiting for us to run into them like unwitting street mimes. Bang, and your level of coping ability falls off to nothing. Today I hit the wall and realized that whatever dedication I feel to work, it’s all subject to the laws of physics running around…
Photography Dedication to the Shot Jon Hillenbrand, April 12, 2007October 17, 2019 You’ll learn. You’ll see that there’s something outside of yourself that you use to get what you need to get. It’s not something that you HAVE to do, it’s something you choose to do. And it might be a struggle. It’s certainly a pain in the ass sometimes. But in…
Photography Color Saturation of Fence-blocked Grass Jon Hillenbrand, March 23, 2007October 17, 2019 Earth, Air, Fire and Water all conspire against you and me at times. We look distantly through the fisheye lens of our lives at the greenery others dance on without a care. Is the cliche true? Who and where are these people who are so better off? My life as…
Poetry My frightening moments in the toy section Jon Hillenbrand, March 22, 2007December 30, 2015 And with tears and longing, a forgotten child cringes, small hands clutching at the unpurchased toy, the life preserver and the reason and the hated reason, love at first sight, pretending not to notice the fading nearness of mothers skirt, vague fantasies projecting into mysteries. And all the world collapses…
Photography Goodness Jon Hillenbrand, March 13, 2007October 17, 2019 How many photographic magazines does it take to make you a better photographer? None. That was a trick question. Sorry about that. But what’s the reasoning? Because either you are a good photographer or you aren’t? NO! How do you define a good photographer? You can’t! Good is a description…
Photography Our Sea of Choices Jon Hillenbrand, March 11, 2007October 17, 2019 Quotes are a lens which brings life into focus some times. The movie Gladiator has a few of these quotes. “What we do in this life echoes throughout eternity.” I think these are good words to live by and though I’ve doubted the existence of eternity in the past, I’ve…
Poetry Button Jon Hillenbrand, March 1, 2007December 30, 2015 Cute little halo You and your friends keep my clothes on I see you there dangling With a sideways smile on your face One of these days you are going to try and get away You’ll be there at night But the next morning you’ll be gone I’ll look through…
Photography Photographic Memory Jon Hillenbrand, March 1, 2007October 17, 2019 Memories. Those funny little thoughts. They are like packets of imagination except they are supposedly real. But many lawyers depend on the fact that they aren’t real. Perhaps because of their association with the imagination, they’ve acquired a bad rep. They can change the color of a car, the height…