Difficulty of production doesn't count.
Totem Pole Carver -- Marymoor Park Heritage Festival Back in my dim and distant days of camera club membership that was a line often heard during club print critiques -- usually in defense of a not-very-well done print. By and large I agree. If the print "doesn't work" then how hard it was to print doesn't count. How hard it was to print only matters after the print "works" -- but even then it only matters to the printer. It doesn't show in the finished print -- nor shoul
if you keep your heart and your eyes open, there is a gift waiting for you at the corner of every street.
The more I think about it (the longer I think about it) the more I'm convinced that my all-time hero is Édouard Boubat. Not only do I keep returning to his photographs but admiring who and what he was. I was thinking about that when I printed this photograph the other day. A few (ahem) years ago I did a documentary project on the Thomas Street Garden -- a city of Seattle P-patch on Capitol Hill a couple of blocks east of Broadway. While I was photographing the garden and t
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...
