Guy Tal | Photographer, Author
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I invite you to join fellow writer and photographer Colleen Miniuk and me for a FREE special live author talk on Thursday, June 18th at 5PM Mountain Time (7PM Eastern, 6PM Central, 4PM Pacific) to celebrate the release of my newest eBook, Future Hindsights: Selected Writings on Photography and Experience. Colleen is the owner of... Continue Reading →
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of 'humility.' This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. —Albert Einstein All forms of language are by nature ambiguous. This is because languages... Continue Reading →
My new E-Book, Future Hindsights / Selected Writings on Photography and Experience, is now available for purchase! The E-Book is in PDF format and offered for a limited time at an introductory price of $17.95. ~~~ Future Hindsight is the idea (first introduced in my book, Another Day Not Wasted) of living and creating such that... Continue Reading →
Announcements: My new e-book, Future Hindsights, will be available for purchase from my website on Friday, May 15th. I will post an announcement and link on this blog when I release it. If you wish to receive the announcement and my regular blog articles via email, please subscribe here. If you wish to purchase autographed copies... Continue Reading →
Without music, life would be a mistake. —Friedrich Nietzsche Previous installments in this series: Amor Fati—Part I: Introduction Amor Fati—Part II: Vastness Amor Fati—Part III: Acceptance and Rebellion In his poem, The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry confessed, “When despair for the world grows in me […] I come into the peace of wild... Continue Reading →
If we lose ourselves in contemplation of the infinite greatness of the universe in space and time, meditate on the past millennia and on those to come; or if the heavens at night actually bring innumerable worlds before our eyes, and so impress on our consciousness the immensity of the universe, we feel ourselves reduced... Continue Reading →
Today, I share with you more thoughts on the topic of "aboutness," which I discuss in a couple of my books. As always, I offer these essays free of the annoyances of advertising and paywalls. Still, if it is within your means to contribute as little as a couple of dollars to support this blog—the... Continue Reading →
It was my great pleasure recently to speak with Grant Swinbourne's as part of his podcast, Landscape Photography World. My thanks to Grant for featuring me and for the excellent questions. Be sure to check out Grant's archives for more interesting conversations, and subscribe to be notified of future ones. (I happen to know at... Continue Reading →
Accustom yourself every morning to look for a moment at the sky and suddenly you will be aware of the air around you, the scent of morning freshness that is bestowed on you between sleep and labor. You will find every day that the gable of every house has its own particular look, its own... Continue Reading →
How can you expect a beholder to experience my picture as I experienced it? A picture comes to me a long time beforehand; who knows how long a time beforehand, I sensed, saw, and painted it and yet the next day even I do not understand what I have done. How can anyone penetrate my... Continue Reading →