Another landscape photograph

Yosemite Valley

Still cautiously stepping into this area of "no-people photography". Looking for my personal statement.

Los Angeles Samples (#1)

Los Angeles, the "hundred suburbs looking for a city", is not a "place". After visiting New York (almost feels like a second home) and San Francisco, what can one say about Los Angeles besides the accuracy of the previous quote? Anyway, maybe it is quite appropriate that this first image is not in focus.

Approaching Death Valley, Lone Pine California (Where are the people?)

Now, where is THIS one coming from? I am just now starting to go through the photographs I took during our latest family vacation in the US. How come a photograph of scenery?? Is it the fact that I have started continuation studies at the Musrara school of Art & Photography that is opening up my vision, or is it just about time for something like this to happen?

What is interesting for me in this photograph as there are no people at all?
Could it be that this photograph relates to "scenery" photographs in the same way my people photographs relate to "street" photography?
I am looking for the common thread.

Stories

This is a surprising photograph for me - mainly because I found it interesting at all. This time it is not the "individual" separated from the crowd, not the "made" icon, not the tension of standing time. Instead - a multitude of stories. I am sure this photograph will trigger something in my ongoing search in public places.

Barbershop, Tel Aviv 2011

I have just gotten off a bus, probably my first bus ride (in Israel) for more than twenty years. Makes one feel a tourist in your own country. What a great setting for a fresh look at the city you know so well.

Celeste Prize 2010

While not really news by now (the Celeste Prize 2010 took place in December 2010), I have only last week received the exhibition catalog.

FROM THE CATALOG TEXT BY MARK GISBOURNE(1)
"In another way the literal digital photographic approach without photoshop or subsequent digital manipulation is seen in a magnificently evocative photograph by Jay L. Entitled "Venice, March 2010", the work comes from a series taken in that city.. It has an immediate sense of "punctum", and the viewer is deeply touched by the young man's expectant waiting and sense of introspection. Visually in the tradition of the great post-war photographers there is a strong feeling of the incised moment about the image". (1) http://www.celesteprize.com/markgisbourne

Zuta - זוטא

A weekly publication of a three poems and one image - in hebrew (Zuta)

There is a lot in common between poems and images: A poem to an image is like a story is to a film. Both capture a fleeting moment and, if good, live forever after in your mind.

As primarily visual person, I have not had much experience with poetry (beyond school at which time it was more of a chore), but I know I have been missing out and want to do something about it.