Lunch at the Oasis with Marvin
Marvin and I met through a highly improbable connection. He was writing a speech for some company big shot and needed basic information...


The Wedding Photographer (from the 7x14 project)
This is another candidate for my "7x14" project -- to use a stack of 7x14 black metal frames. I plan to use 3, 4, maybe 5 photographs...


Serious about not being serious.
Elliott Erwitt is one of my favorite photographers. He said this about his fellow photographer Marc Riboud but it works for him also. ...


Camera Shy.
John Loengard, Life magazine photographer and later photo editor, said of photographing the great Andre Kertesz "He was a very difficult...


"It is the photo that takes you."
"Sylvia in a Shadow" Sylvia, violinist, artist, museum docent, and I were lunching with an art historian mutual friend. We were...


Pictorialists? Me?
A short while back I went on a walk/photography tour of Seattle's Japan Town -- along Main Street and Jackson in the International...


In the manner of Edward Hopper?
The name "Edward Hopper" immediately suggests his signature paintings -- "Nighthawks", "Chop Suey" ..... I was pouring over the catalog...


Mademoiselle Zara
Ever since becoming aware of Robert Doisneau's work (several decades) it remains one of the "go-to" sources when my battery needs...


And now for something completely different.
I grew up in rural Illinois and Edgar Lee Masters' book "The Spoon River Anthology" was pretty much required reading in high school. ...


A successful portrait sitting ....
Wah Lui (owner of the Yuan Lui studios) said that a successful portrait sitting is one in which I get at least one exposure that both the...

