Yet another hero gone.

ronfstop
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I don't believe a person has a style.

What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them.

What is there comes out.

Sebastião Salgado

Salgadp died ;last month at 81. In addition to being a superb photographer he was an avid environmentalist (planted 2.5 million trees on his family's ranch in Brazil resulting in restoring the native ecosystem to health) and, from all accounts, was also simply a grade A human being.

I am still mining my negative archive -- finding about an equal number of "Why didn't I print that one?" and "What was I thinking when I took that one." This month's Print of the Month is one of the former.

From the "A Little Street Music" series, #123.

Another ongoing series is "Waiting at Bay D" -- photographs taken while waiting at Bay D for the express bus back to the east side when they ran in the downtown tunnel. Bay D came to mean wherever I was waiting for a bus, streetcar, light rail.... This one is from Portland at the streetcar stop just behind the Portland Art Museum. This is Waiting at Bay D #40

Last fall I had the pleasure of curating a small display for the Highline Heritage Museum in Burien. I titled it "The History We Live With." -- intended to raise interest in what we walk or drive past every day that may not be there next year -- or next decade. When Eugene Atget photographed in Paris he knew that much of what he saw would soon vanish during the modernization of the city. Compared to Paris, our history is brief --- but that doesn't mean that we don't have any nor that recording it isn't needed. For instance, this wig-wag railroad crossing signal was the standard warning device for decades. This one in Ashland Oregon was one of only a handful of them still in service when I took the photograph/ It's gone now, replaced by a crossing gate and blinking lights. One of my nagging issues is "What am I not photographing?"