Friday, March 11, 2005

A foggy night in Tokyo

It's so foggy outside and it's beautiful. Lights are dim, your vision is blurred, not from animal tears but from some atmospheric magic.

My son says this is like London, although he's never been there.
I say this is like Milano, and I've never been there.
My wife says this is like Seattle and true enough. We've lived in Seattle fog.

Fog or snow, the world is made beautiful by the presence of water.

And the critic Kojin Kondo says "photography is born from water."

The book I and Kondo co-edited, How to Talk to Photography, is now in store everywhere.