Street Photography in a Time of Social Distancing
I've been walking around my neighborhood every day that isn't raining since the "Stay Home, Stay Healthy" declaration put an abrupt stop...
Self-Isolation Edition
I'm trying to use this period of staying home a lot more than usual (not that I'm exactly a social butterfly even in normal times) to...
Spying on a Memory
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make...
Braiding Garlic Then and Now, Lament for a Market
December's Print of the Month was a portrait from our weekend on Lopez Island late last year. So is this one. I keep going back to the...
Still Mining the Negative Archive
I've been plodding through my 50,000 or so negatives looking for ones that I should have printed -- or did print and now can't stand to...
Are we on a different planet?
We spent a very pleasant weekend on Lopez Island a couple of weeks ago -- for those not of the Northwest, Lopez is one of the chain of...
A Rainy Day in the Art Institute of Chicago
November's Print of the Month is of one of my favorite paintings. It is perhaps the best known of Gustav Caillebotte's works -- with...
Where did summer go?
Didn't summer used to be longer? It seemed to me when I was a kid that summer lasted a very long time. No longer! I read somewhere...
Marketing My Photographs is Only Fun When it Works.
Marketing is my least favorite photographic activity -- I'd much rather be photographing or splashing about in the darkroom. However, I...
Back to the Darkroom
It wasn't my idea but I took a several week vacation from printing -- or even photographing very much. It seems that I had a...
