SRJO (Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra)
A friend was the volunteer performance photographer for the Kirkland Performing Arts Center. He had a conflict and asked me if I was...


The only pleasure you can get ...
... from creating something is the pleasure you have in doing it, not the final product even. Berenice Abbott I thought about this when...


You can't make funny pictures....
My favorite bon mot by photographer Elliot Erwitt: (1928-2023) " You can't make funny pictures if you don't live in a funny world. " ...


Triggering a Memory
"More than any other art form a photograph can trigger a memory" -- Likely not verbatim but one of the rare needles in the literary...


Yet another hero gone.
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...


Only I will see.
"There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if...


From the not-so-recent past
I don’t make a picture a day but there isn’t a day when I’m not looking — and looking counts, too. Emmitt Gowin I was browsing (again)...


In the manner of Paul Strand
Paul Strand's photographs of an Amish village are among the icons. I must confess that my opinion is sort of "One or two are fine. A...


For a split second I see a sparkle of beauty passing by. That instance of grace that I nearly missed and that will never happen again. -- Sarah Moon
I was photographing this lovely woman and her killer cute baby for an NFP for which my wife volunteered. All was going just fine -- then...


There's nothing to sphere but sphere itself.
On Reading Number 48 The great Andre Kertesz published a small book "On Reading" and I immediately and shamelessly copied the title --...

