Philia (/ˈfɪljə/ or /ˈfɪliə/) is one of the four ancient Greek words for love.
The Raleigh Film and Art Festival is pleased to present a collective art experience, Arts On The Hill, which will include photography, music, a short-film screening, and poetry. The exhibit will showcase the photography of Timothy Vanderweert, utilizing the photography Tim curated in the final months of his life. Arts On the Hill will be [ ]
In the months since Tim s death I have faced the difficult task of going through his belongings. I don t know how it is that we collect so much stuff the bits and pieces of things that were of meaning, of interest, or merely caught our fancy. And I don t know how it is that [ ]
This morning, my husband, Timothy Vanderweert, died at 4:04 a.m. Tim s most recent hospitalization was New Year s Eve. It was then that he learned that the cancer he had worked so hard to keep at bay had become aggressive and had taken over. If you know Tim personally then you know he was a strong-willed [ ]
On December 8, 2022, I sent the following email to Leica Germany: Dear Sirs/ Madams: I write a blog about Leica cameras: www.leicaphilia.com. It s been active for over 8 years, has a very loyal following (over 20 million page views) and, if I might say so, is one of the more thoughtful and unbiased Leica sites [ ]
This is going to be my last post on the blog. I m going to try to avoid the embarrassment of announcing I m dying and then continuing to live on. I ve just got through with another surgery and the general consensus is I ve got significant cancer throughout and it s just a matter of time. I m really [ ]
I ll admit. I m a Nikon rangefinder admirer. I can t for the life of me understand why they are so affordable at a time when Leica M s are priced in the stratosphere and every other functional film camera seems to be selling at a premium. I ve owned almost all of them along the way S2, [ ]
Q: Why do people buy Leica cameras even though they are very expensive? Chat GPT: Leica cameras are known for their high quality and craftsmanship, and are often considered a prestige item among photographers. As a result, people may be willing to pay a premium for a Leica camera because they believe it will provide [ ]
That s exactly the question you ask yourself when you re looking at a successful photo. What does success depend on? There are objective reasons, of course: the photographer s technical virtuosity and talent, the quality of the printing, the choice of subject, But those factors alone don t add up to to a good photo; a some little [ ]
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin overturned the by now anachronistic conception of Charles Baudelaire, who divided art into two opposing camps : on the one hand the imaginative ( true artists who want to illuminate things with their subjectivity) and on the other hand realists (who want to represent things as they are but have no real means to [ ]
Film photographers never much cared about bokeh. The first time I think I even heard the word was when we were well into the digital era, probably on some internet forum, where the hive mind argue vehemently, and endlessly, about some non-sensical brain-splitting, optical hair-splitting issue, the functional analogue of mediaeval theological debates about just how [ ]