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At 68
August 2021, the pandemic rages on.
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Just Make Good Pictures
Not sure I told you, but I entered a local art’s festival and won top prize in the photo category. Beat out all the lovely pics of autumn trees and Mt Rainier. I have since had a nice email dialog going on with the guy who judged the show. He lives up in Bellingham and is very old school. Shoots…
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All Mine
Ugh… deF’ingPressing! No wonder Van Gogh cut off his ear before shooting himself. And he probably had to make his own frames from scratch! º_¿ I can’t really explain the need to make “art” and then the desire to share it in an unprofitable exhibition. But obviously there are many of us who do it. I can safely save that…
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A Less Discerning Eye
This purge feels good. And at the moment, it is only color chromes. And all for stock use. When I shot the film, I would always pull my faves and put them in a sheet marked selects. I would then give all the film to my editor, maybe 8 to 10 sleeved pages with my selects on top. My editor…
Going Nowhere in Particular
I am glad you like my little ferry image. Nice little back story to that one. I was fairly new to Seattle and not always busy with work. I was friends with a guy who was a free spirit and like me, loved to make photographs. We would do this thing he called space cruising. We would set a time…
Star Struck
Hi Sweetie, Just wanted to say hello and hope you are having a nice trip and visit with your family. All is still fine here. Quiet even. I finally finished, at least phase one, of my family film scanning project. By the end I had grown a bit weary. All these images of my folks, long gone and no one…
The Nature of Obsession
Stuart, I got an interesting email Friday evening. It came from my contact form on my website, meaning someone had actually looked at my site. Most of the emails I get from there are bogus. Auto bots out to sell me web services. But every now and then there is a real inquiry about something. In this case, a guy…
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My Great Escape
The look of those images is the result of using infrared film. That was my look back then. A photographer friend referred to me as the Infrared King. It gives a very distinctive look. My website is full of infrared images. Love that stuff…hated that stuff. It was always unpredictable. And not for someone who wanted precise results. I loved…
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My Dark Room Days Were Numbered
Just before high end digital cameras came into being, most photographers got scanners to facilitate digital deliver to clients. For a while there service bureaus, remember those? Designers would take film there to be scanned as well as get other digital output stuff. The going rate for a 50meg scan was $50. Photographers said hey, we should be doing that…
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Cousins
Well as if on cue… I was sorry to hear story about your cousin. Sounds like he had a hard life. Seems too that you are close to your cousins. Me not so much. My dad’s clan was from upstate NY and my mom’s folks were Hoosiers. Ohio was a nice in between place that allowed for occasional visits. Mostly…