Neil Bixby's Photographs
Shot on film, printed in a darkroom
Three trekking a glacier, late in the day.
Groceries delivered in Fribourg, Switzerland
At Lake Lucerne
Watering trough in the Swiss Alps.
(The flower petals were aligned naturally by water's flow; (this shot was not staged.)
At a mountain dairy farm
Cobblestone street, Zürich
(a tripod shot; note the lady, lower right, observing my shooting on a tripod, was thinking "What is that idiot doing?!)
Trainman in a hurry
Zürich main station
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Children were quite taken by this toy bear with mechanical arm, alll day long blowing soap bubbles.
This man noticed and admired my 1960s Rolleiflex. His son became terribly bored.
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In a mountain hotel in Switzerland this 1940s "phone-closet" is still used today. (Note: the second earpiece hanging down on the right enabling a second person to overhear both sides of the conversation.) Only the Swiss would come up with something like that.
Soap dish and light switch in an old mountain hotel
Blueberries served in brandy snifters.
To get this staircase I lay flat on my back, working as quickly as possible before building security could catch me and throw me out.
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(Two photos) the award winning Zürichberg Hotel.
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An engraver in Bern
A wood carver from Israel carving in Switzerland. (I sent him all 3 of these shots.)
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(Two photos) A classical musician I met in Fribourg
Daughter of a violin teacher here in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Gary Elijah Dann, Professor of Religion and Philosophy
David Schatzky, CBC AM radio personality, psychotherapist, and wonderful friend!
Frau Madeleine Kühn, my wife's dear friend with whom we stayed in Switzerland.
Leathersmith at a Satruday morning market in Berne, Switaerland
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What got me about this was how she was right in his face! And he's having none of it!
A lucky shot. To get this I had to shoot fast as possible or I'd loose the composition. So I just shot from the hip as I walked by. Months later as I saw this negative come out of the wash I felt "Wow! I got it!"
At a bicycle shop in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Gary Fortinsky, wonderful dentist in Toronto.
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Goats are everywhere in Switzerland.
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Little boy had to go wee-wee real bad. But mommie, (off-camera) directed his sister to tie his shoe first.
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An 18 month old, female American Red Tail hawk named Geronimo and her falconer.
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Tea in a mountain hotel.
100 years ago chess competitions were played on this very table. (Being in Switzerland is... just so Swiss.)
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Helga Bixby, the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Helga... is... love incarnate. The only way I can describe this dear soul is to quote the words of Mahatma Gandhi, regartding a British woman who volunteered in Gandhi's mission in India:
"I have called her beautiful because true beauty is moral beauty; true beauty, after all, is beauty of the heart."
On Photography
by Jeff Benton
"There are processes that separate the artist from the technician. The act of choosing and adjusting the various camera settings, followed by the darkroom processes, reflect intent based on imagination, aesthetic sensibility and experience. The photographer first has to see possibilities, then make choices. The act of making a photograph then beomes a creative act. The experienced photographer, like the experienced painter, learns to truly see, and through his art, teaches others to do the same."
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