Fog At Dawn
A bit of a hiatus from blogging this past week and some. Combination of things put me off the track for a few days ... I hurt my knee on a morning walk two Saturdays past, had to prep for a new...
View ArticleFog At Byxbee Park
It's been a couple of weeks since I blogged. Burdened down with this and that, mundane stuff and things to do, words have been sparse. Walking at Byxbee Park the other morning in the light fog of...
View ArticleCafe Computing
It's been dark and cold these mornings of Winter 2010. So easy not to go for a walk in the pre-dawn chill, to enjoy the warmth of staying in bed or even just hanging out in my comfy chair while...
View ArticleTear
I had an informal portfolio review last week, showed three small sets of two themes of work I've been working on to a gallery –seeking just their opinions and advice as to whether where I was going...
View ArticleChit Chat In Fog
I love my morning walks. The air is fresh and crisp, the weather can be clear or foggy, and the world is quiet. I can let my mind wander while my eyes are looking, watching for those moments that make...
View ArticleWoo Hoo!
This is indeed an honor! Thank you, Ibarionex! Check out: The Candid Frame: A Photography Podcast: TCF - Listener Photo of the Week - March 24...
View ArticleLiteral, Abstract
It came up again today. I was looking at some work, asked to critique a photographer's website, and the photographs, some of them, sang out. Others did not. The ones that didn't seemed literal to me,...
View ArticleIt Is Now Spring
It's been a tough couple of weeks. I've been doing a lot of photography but not finding much inspiration for words. The dragging tail of Winter 2010 revisited us for a while at about the same time I...
View ArticleOf Time And Place
Often, as I traveled on business in the 1990s and early 2000s, I would find myself with an afternoon free, a weekend free ... Time free from all other commitments in places that I could not ordinarily...
View ArticleEmpty Chairs
I haven't posted much for a while.I've been busy. I'm preparing to move soon.I've been dealing with a painful foot.They've paved my street with the tar stripes.I've been distracted due to business....
View ArticleA Different Path
United Airlines sent me a note in May that my frequent flyer miles were going to go away if I didn't book something with them before the end of June. So I thought, 'heck, i haven't been to NY since...
View ArticleMoving
I'd lived in Cupertino for 14 years when I moved here, in an apartment down the street from my new job at Apple Computer. Over that near decade and a half so much living had flowed under the bridge it...
View ArticleMichelin Sunrise
Michelin Sunrise First morning walk at the new place. I walked in the direction of the main street, a six to eight lane local highway, and meandered along it for a while. Lots of old-timey small...
View ArticleAgainst The Rules
On one of the camera equipment forums someone said: "... good photography is more than a checklist of criteria- and that's where my challenge begins: I want you to post 1 (one) photo. One of your...
View ArticleThe Lighting
Last evening was a special event: the annual lighting of the classic fresnel lamp at Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero, California.I arrived shortly before sunset began and was lucky to find a...
View ArticleWall And Tension
It was a quiet moment yesterday, late enough and cloudy enough that the light was utterly shadowless and had an interesting feel .. a 'rich flatness'. It had been a somewhat long and unfocused day...
View ArticleEarthquakes
A pause to remember and respect the hundreds for whom all options have ceased. Another for their friends, families and those who will miss them most. Another moment to reflect on the fragility of life...
View ArticleCommunicating—The Book
Sorry I missed posting last week's entry. I was down with a truly nasty cold and flu, and for the past week I croaked about like a frog with the sinus runoff and little energy. I'm back in the flow...
View ArticleThe Book - The Announcement, The Invitation
In the cafe this afternoon, a misbehaving Polaroid SX-70 in front of me. Failed, bad exposures, $3.50 apiece worth of them, strewn on the table. The next table over from me—two women sitting with two...
View ArticleA Book Review… !
Photographically speaking, about the only thing on my mind at the present time is the book signing event at ModernBook Gallery tomorrow evening. So imagine my delight when my friend Mark Roberts (a...
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