Comments on: Photography, seeing, and woodworking https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2014/03/21/photography-seeing-and-woodworking/ inside the woodshop Tue, 25 Mar 2014 01:09:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Tom Danforth https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2014/03/21/photography-seeing-and-woodworking/#comment-127733 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 01:09:26 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2881#comment-127733 Rob: The billionaires don’t buy custom furniture, just custom houses. The millionaires I’ve worked for go to carpet barn, etc. for their furniture as they are trying to have as many house as the billionaires. The few clients I’ve had in the past who really appreciate what we do are old money people or people who really can’t afford us so they do what we do and get it anyway. If you build it they will come. Tom

]]> By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2014/03/21/photography-seeing-and-woodworking/#comment-127732 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:50:40 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2881#comment-127732 Thanks for reading and for the comment, Tom. What an interesting background and evolution. By the way, if you get too busy, feel free to send a few of those billionaires my way for custom furniture.

Rob

]]> By: Tom Danforth https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2014/03/21/photography-seeing-and-woodworking/#comment-127730 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:31:43 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=2881#comment-127730 Rob: I enjoyed reading your comments as I was a pro photographer in the late sixties before I became a “designer-crafstman” in the early 70’s. The progression from one discipline to the other has always made sense to me because it was through photography that I really learned to “see.” As a woodworker I have always been able to visualize what I am going to do aided by a few chicken scratch sketches for dimensions and some joinery details. In the late 80’s in San Antonio I had a small collection of pieces I had found time to make on the side of my commercial activities. A photographer friend and I did a studio shoot with good lights and all and we proofed all shots with a polaroid back on his 4×5 view camera. I took those proofs home, lined them up against the baseboard in my bedroom and surveyed them from the futon on my floor. it was an epiphany to realize at that moment that I have always visualized my work as photographs! In two dimensions. The third dimension just naturally follows my two d photo concept. Interesting, n’cest pas?
Left San Antone in the late 80’s and took up residence here on the Cape. Still knocking out woodwork for billionaires when I’m not fishing and really enjoy photographing their mansions. I enjoy your blog. Encourage you to continue to enjoy your photographic interests. It’s all about learning…seeing more every day.
Yours, Tom Danforth

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