Near Piccola Farnesina, Rome, Italy, July 2010
\getcloser100 Day 9. Day 10 is here.
Simon Griffee
Design consulting, art direction, photography.
October 2013
Ben Saunder’s Expedition to the South Pole is Underway!
Follow it here, and here’s their first blog post from Antarctica. I’m sponsoring Mile 890.
Five Days in Paris, Paris, France, May 2013
Photographs from five days in Paris back in May 2013. About time I update my stories section. More to come.
Get Closer
Robert Capa by Ruth Orkin, 1952.
Okay. I will do my best to respond every day for the next 100 days (\getcloser100). Day 1 is this one.
Listen to Robert’s voice at the International Center of Photography.
The Wind
I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies’ skirts across the grass —
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
I saw the different things you did,
But always you yourself you hid.
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all —
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
O you that are so strong and cold,
O blower, are you young or old?
Are you a beast of field and tree,
Or just a stronger child than me?
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
—Robert Lous Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses
