"Journal of the Plague Year"
Daniel Defoe published, in 1772, his experience in London of the last epidemic of bubonic plague in London in 1665. Defoe was a writer...


People you don't know
The August Print of the Month (or thereabouts) is from the 2019 Folklife Festival at Seattle Center. She was waiting to meet her...


What am I not photographing?
"It takes the passage of time before the image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing...


Annals of Social Distancing -- June Edition
My faithful 1978 Canon AT1 SLR with its 200mm lens is still following me around the neighborhood on my mostly-daily walk. I'm trying...


Street Photography in a Time of Social Distancing
I've been walking around my neighborhood every day that isn't raining since the "Stay Home, Stay Healthy" declaration put an abrupt stop...


Self-Isolation Edition
I'm trying to use this period of staying home a lot more than usual (not that I'm exactly a social butterfly even in normal times) to...


Spying on a Memory
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make...


Braiding Garlic Then and Now, Lament for a Market
December's Print of the Month was a portrait from our weekend on Lopez Island late last year. So is this one. I keep going back to the...


Still Mining the Negative Archive
I've been plodding through my 50,000 or so negatives looking for ones that I should have printed -- or did print and now can't stand to...


Are we on a different planet?
We spent a very pleasant weekend on Lopez Island a couple of weeks ago -- for those not of the Northwest, Lopez is one of the chain of...

