Still Spying on Memories
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...


"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...




















