Figure 1 – Mardi Gras joker, Framingham, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2015.

A couple of weeks ago I posted that Hati and Skoll Gallery was celebrating its third anniversary. Recently, I was looking at the statistics and I discovered that today’s blog post is number 1005. Yikes!  As Hamlet said: “Words, words, words.” He also, in response to Polonius’ blithering said “Tedious old fools.” Hmm. My blogs tend to run on average about 500 words; so that’s about 500,000 words, about six novels worth, unless you’re Tolstoy. Them’s a lotta words, dear readers. And I appreciate your bearing with me. Clearly, I have a lot to say and I have recently started trying to offer up something on weekends of greater length and depth. But mostly, I love photography and am fascinated by so many things.

And that’s the very point – love of photography. A great photograph is like a lover’s kiss in your life. I can tell you how a photograph makes me fee – what it means to me. But I cannot tell you how it will make you feel. A photograph is sufficient in itself; words are unnecessary. They get in the way of meaning. A photograph is a kiss, and the great screen actress Ingrid Berman said:

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

Today, in celebration, I thought that I would share an IPhone photograph of the Carnival Joker, Figure 1 – out to celebrate a Mardi Gras. He is not from New Orleans but rather from a local store called Jordan’s Furniture which is an icon in the Boston area, and where it is always Mardi Gras. They even greet you at the door with necklaces of shiny beads. As I was taking this photograph a very timid little girl was slowly approaching the bead bearer. So thank you all again for your interest and encouragement