How to Respond?
How to Respond? This is a bit heavier than my usual blog post content but this has been on my mind a lot. Philip, a photographer friend,...
"Out with a Pocketful of Film"
I spent a good deal of time this month freshening up my website (and not a minute too soon either.) I was embarrassed by how many...
A new year -- a new portfolio
Morris “Uncle Morrie” Manzo Manzo Brothers High Stall, 1975 I believe he was market patriarch Socio Manzo’s younger brother but I’m not...
Music from Cuba
December's print of the month is from one of the better parties I've been to in a long while. Our neighbor down the street was a chef...
"The Everydayness of Life"
George Tice is one of my photographic heroes. Not only is he a spectacularly fine printer but his photographs are very much about the...
Still Spying on Memories
October's Print of the Month (or thereabouts) is the latest of my reprints of very old negatives from the Pike Place Market. I'm working...
"Journal of the Plague Year"
Daniel Defoe published, in 1772, his experience in London of the last epidemic of bubonic plague in London in 1665. Defoe was a writer...
People you don't know
The August Print of the Month (or thereabouts) is from the 2019 Folklife Festival at Seattle Center. She was waiting to meet her...
What am I not photographing?
"It takes the passage of time before the image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing...
Annals of Social Distancing -- June Edition
My faithful 1978 Canon AT1 SLR with its 200mm lens is still following me around the neighborhood on my mostly-daily walk. I'm trying...