A Tiny Step Towards "Normal"
When there was an announcement of a small street fair at the downtown park I put film in my camera. The weather cooperated, the cheerful...
Street Photography -- How it has changed!
In the later years of his long life the great Robert Doisneau lamented that when he was photographing on the streets he "was no longer as...
Street Photography in the Time of Pandemic
I spent a couple of very welcome hours at the Pike Place Market last week. I likely won't return there for the foreseeable future --...
Waiting for Lower Water, Paris 1978
When I was in Paris in the spring the Seine was very high -- high enough that the river boats couldn't get under the bridges. There was...
I wish I could claim to have seen this at the time!
As I was flattening the prints I made yesterday I smiled at this month's Print of the Month (or thereabouts) of the guy on the ladder...
How to Respond?
How to Respond? This is a bit heavier than my usual blog post content but this has been on my mind a lot. Philip, a photographer friend,...
"Out with a Pocketful of Film"
I spent a good deal of time this month freshening up my website (and not a minute too soon either.) I was embarrassed by how many...
A new year -- a new portfolio
Morris “Uncle Morrie” Manzo Manzo Brothers High Stall, 1975 I believe he was market patriarch Socio Manzo’s younger brother but I’m not...
Music from Cuba
December's print of the month is from one of the better parties I've been to in a long while. Our neighbor down the street was a chef...
"The Everydayness of Life"
George Tice is one of my photographic heroes. Not only is he a spectacularly fine printer but his photographs are very much about the...
