I use the blog ("WHAT'S NEW") connected to my website strictly for current events about my photography. Longer, usually crankier, blog posts are at notbadbutisitart.blogspot.com. The tool that I use for my website, WIX, did a major upgrade (I hope) to its blog editor. I'm still getting the hang of it. A side effect of the change is that if you want to leave a comment (and I hope you do) you have to enter your email and password. Why a password? I haven't a clue. Another si

I'm going to start putting a new quotation on the home page of my website each month. I have been accumulating quotations about art -- mostly photography -- for a very long time. I have enough to last me for several lifetimes. This month's is by Emmet Gowin. It is from the introduction of his self-titled retrospective (Aperture 2013). We heard him speak at Portland Art Museum's endowed Minor White Lecture a couple of years back. I'm a big fan of his earlier work and he

I'm going to start putting a new quotation on the home page of my website each month. I have been accumulating quotations about art -- mostly photography -- for a very long time. I have enough to last me for several lifetimes. This month's is by Emmet Gowin. It is from the introduction of his self-titled retrospective (Aperture 2013). We heard him speak at Portland Art Museum's endowed Minor White Lecture a couple of years back. I'm a big fan of his earlier work and he

"In no way do I believe that I have my own fairy godmother who has sown little miracles in my path throughout my life. Rather, I believe miracles pop up all the time and everywhere, but we forget to look for them. What a joy to have been looking in the right direction so often." I've been trying (with only modest success) not to buy books. Even after a major culling out our house is awash in books. But I just couldn't stand it and bought the eight-pound, 2 1/2" thick "Wil