“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

Three photographs featured in this months release
of Phirebrush, Issue #52.

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Low Tide, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California. July 2007.

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“I am neither an economist nor a phototgrapher of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.”

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

Fisherman, Lake Okeechobee, Florida.

In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers form a sequence that after two starting values, each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on. A tiling with squares whose sides are successive Fibonacci numbers in length gives us the pattern shown.

The Golden Rectangle is defined as a rectangle that can be partioned into a square and a smaller rectangle which has the same aspect ratio of the original rectangle successively. Mathematically a ratio of about 3.2:2. The logarithmic spiral, or the “Spira Mirabilis” created by this ratio are found throughout nature, as in the contours of Nautilus shells or sunflowers.

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