Pleasant Abstraction
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Pleasant Abstraction

There seems to be a fine line between a pleasant abstraction and just an out of focus picture. It is definitely something you have to play with and shoot a lot. But the process is definitely fun. Like my Instagram stuff. Just me playing around, mostly out of curiosity. Wondering what something might look like. But the instagram stuff is…
January 16, 2018Posted inLandscapes, Odds and Ends, Seattle, Uncategorized
A Matter of Time
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A Matter of Time

The passage of time is a funny thing. When you are a child, it seems like it takes forever for Christmas to arrive. And yet as an adult, five years fly by in the blink of an eye. One thing for sure, we never have enough of it. Never enough hours in a day, never enough time to do all…
November 20, 2017Posted inOdds and Ends, Ohio
Hard at Work
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Hard at Work

I ponder the concept of retirement. When I was younger I thought it would never happen. Or at least in the conventional way. I assumed at one point my assignment work would simply go away. Then all that would be left is my work, my projects. But often my projects have grown out of my assignments. That client work takes…
November 7, 2017Posted inarchitecture, Seattle
Barcelona
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Barcelona

It was late summer of 2012. My mother was dying, Carter was facing open heart surgery and the great recession lingered on. The future was very uncertain. We would sit on the deck or veranda, as I called it, late in the afternoon, early evening. We would watch the planes over head, flying off to exotic places. We knew certain…
August 16, 2017Posted inBarcelona, Portraits, Travels
But it Doesn’t Look Like a Photograph…
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But it Doesn’t Look Like a Photograph…

I have read that the problem with contemporary photography is that we are still concerned with modernism. Still view the photographic image as a facsimile of reality. More or less. To deviate invites both scorn and praise, depending on the level of fame of the artist. If the gods of the art curatorial world smile upon you, then you can…
July 28, 2017Posted inarchitecture, Landscapes, Odds and Ends, Seattle, Uncategorized