Photojournalism as Music

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Song of Destiny

Song of Destiny

Out for a step into eternity
as the clouds form in uncertainty
at last a pace that might erase
this uneasiness etched upon my face

Looking upon the landscape so dear
One foot holds me here
The other one has no fear
Love lost within a tear

Songs of destiny swing low and bright
heard in their complexity
sing you back home tonight
rolling like a stone within the light

Soaring above the love lost
let the sound of falling free
guide you upon every turn
be yourself no matter the cost.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Today: Heavenly Portrait session

Today... The Heavens rumbled as I heard the sound of humming bird wings. Opening my eyes from the nightfall that came so quiet, I awoke viewing the magical light of a new day. Found a camera in my hand as my eyes beheld the most wonderful image of a heavenly angel. I crafted this vision to film and it became the most compelling portrait ever seen.

Friday, April 18, 2008

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http://www.citypaper.net/exposure/johnsneedles/

PARIS_VENICE photo collages

"Illumination has filled my sketchbook with bold, mysterious, shadows and light for me to piece together in what I call Photographic Collages. Two pivotal inspirations to my life artistically have been French photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004), who became known as the photographer who captured ‘the decisive moment,’ and the English Romantic landscape and marine artist J.M.W.Turner (1775–1851), who became known as ‘the painter of light.’ My footsteps in life have taken me to Paris and Venice, both places that Cartier-Bresson and Turner have traveled. During my journeys I have used film and camera as my sketchbook, filling new books with fleeting, atmospheric colors capturing the decisive and fleeting moments of light as I saw them. Just as Turner took his watercolor sketch books in the studio and produced grand oil paintings, so I take my photographic images and work with them in the digital world producing photographic prints. The computer has become my painting instrument and the printer my canvas to a new realm beyond imagination. The direct extension of a photograph to a scanned image to photographic print is limitless. In my final images a new world unfolds, one filled with color, vision, and the beauty of a painting."
Needles’ work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wilmington News Journal, Delaware State News and other publications, as well as several schools’ collections. He has won numerous awards. Needles was born in San Raefel, California and spent most of his preteen and teenage life in Cape May, New Jersey.