My Third Camera

My Third Camera

Apr 16, 2014

I am certain that this discussion of my old photographic equipment is an absolute bore for you. But I’m having a blast. This is old stuff I have not thought about for decades and I am enjoying it. It is like looking back at one’s trail of footprints in the...
Images are All Around You

Images are All Around You

Apr 9, 2014

I have been asked where I find the images I take. People actually think that somehow I go places they don’t and find subjects they never get to photograph. But that is far from the truth. Actually, I don’t go on special photographic expeditions: I just...
Ship of State

Ship of State

Mar 4, 2013

Have you noticed how a scene will connect with something within you; you look at it and you don’t want to pull your eyes away; you photograph it and you keep returning to the image; your mind keeps going back to it. It is different images for each of us. We all...
The Aloha Formal

The Aloha Formal

Mar 1, 2013

Photography is many things. It can be a form of record keeping, a custodian of facts, often true and sometimes false. A picture can be a keeper of memory, valued not for its content but what its content evokes in the viewer’s recollection of the past. And...
William Turner Today

William Turner Today

Feb 24, 2013

William Turner (1775 to 1851) is one of my favorite artists. I especially like his more abstract works such as “Rain, Steam and Speed” or “Sundown over a Lake” or “Snowstorm”. Color and texture dominate and form and substance are...