October's Print of the Month (or thereabouts) is the latest of my reprints of very old negatives from the Pike Place Market. I'm working on coming up with 20 or so prints in a series I'm calling "Face of the Market" -- emphasizing the people rather than the place. ---------------- "... you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman's quotation on the home page of my website is only one that I have used there that is not by a photographer. My friend Steve emailed me th

Daniel Defoe published, in 1772, his experience in London of the last epidemic of bubonic plague in London in 1665. Defoe was a writer and journalist but his "Journal of the Plague Year" is more like a diary -- his nearly day to day observations of life in London during a very difficult year. I wonder if a diarist somewhere in the United States is doing something like that -- I'm sure not. September's Print of the Month (or thereabouts) is from 2003. I have no idea what di