John Lightle
Inside the entryway of my home hangs a 16x20 inch image of my wife’s grandparents. It’s over 100 years old. Beautifully tinted in the era’s vintage sepia toning, this image serves as a daily reminder of the photographic art form’s longevity.
Decades ago I served as a scout in service of our nation’s defense. Steadily poised inside motionless observation post, bodily senses arise with the snap of a twig, or the twitch of a wren. Overnight defense adds an entirely new element to the discipline. Remaining motionless hours at a time develops a keen sense in detecting movement, yet in that lapse of that time, the body slowly begins to comply and comes to embrace the stillness.
Over years, the practice became engrained and in developing skills as an artist, continually reemerge in this craft. Melding these two traits, the art form became driven, almost compelled, to find a realm within our planet where urgency succumbs to the still; capturing the grandiose and the majestic to the sublime and the delicate, and finding the serenity that arrives within oneself from the stillness surrounding us.
These images are not only for our viewing as of here and now, but to pass along our place in time for the curious and the inquisitive, 100 years from now.
Decades ago I served as a scout in service of our nation’s defense. Steadily poised inside motionless observation post, bodily senses arise with the snap of a twig, or the twitch of a wren. Overnight defense adds an entirely new element to the discipline. Remaining motionless hours at a time develops a keen sense in detecting movement, yet in that lapse of that time, the body slowly begins to comply and comes to embrace the stillness.
Over years, the practice became engrained and in developing skills as an artist, continually reemerge in this craft. Melding these two traits, the art form became driven, almost compelled, to find a realm within our planet where urgency succumbs to the still; capturing the grandiose and the majestic to the sublime and the delicate, and finding the serenity that arrives within oneself from the stillness surrounding us.
These images are not only for our viewing as of here and now, but to pass along our place in time for the curious and the inquisitive, 100 years from now.
