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

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