Open Every Day
The statement by Steve McCurry on my home page "It is important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You...
On both sides of the camera
Steichen's observation that a portrait is made on both sides of the camera rings true with me. If the subject and the photographer are...
In the manner of ...
I'm still pondering the notion of looking at the work of painters whom I admire and trying to use some aspect or their technique, subject...
Norman Lundin -- WHO?
Souvenir, In the Manner of Norman Lundin January's Print of the Month is #74 of my "Missing Persons" series. There are no people in...
Show Photographs in a Cafe?
Unexpectedly I was asked to show my photographs in the Grand Central Bakery in nearby Burien Washington. They have a nicely lighted...
A Tiny Step Towards "Normal"
When there was an announcement of a small street fair at the downtown park I put film in my camera. The weather cooperated, the cheerful...
Street Photography -- How it has changed!
In the later years of his long life the great Robert Doisneau lamented that when he was photographing on the streets he "was no longer as...
Street Photography in the Time of Pandemic
I spent a couple of very welcome hours at the Pike Place Market last week. I likely won't return there for the foreseeable future --...
Waiting for Lower Water, Paris 1978
When I was in Paris in the spring the Seine was very high -- high enough that the river boats couldn't get under the bridges. There was...
I wish I could claim to have seen this at the time!
As I was flattening the prints I made yesterday I smiled at this month's Print of the Month (or thereabouts) of the guy on the ladder...