Winter is a Garden Season
Hardly bereft of beauty, the winter garden is filled with subtle pleasures.
Spring in the Skagit Valley
Just before five am, I dropped some friends off at the airport. Caffeinated, I drove north on the nearly empty interstate, waiting for the sun to come up. The Skagit Valley lies about an hour and half out of Seattle, a broad flood plain, and the closest big chunk of agricultural land in the area. [...]
Shooting with Lensbaby in San Francisco
I had one day on the week in California not planned: perfect to take my lensbaby to the city and check out the new California Academy of Sciences building that I’d read about on Slate. Located in Golden Gate Park, I could dash into the city, take some snaps and get back to Mountain View [...]
Point of View(s): Photo Safari
Gray and cold, this morning wasn’t the most intriguing weather to go on a photo safari, but that’s what I was doing with Pam of Nerdseyeview. I did not take enough photos, think hard enough about finding things to shoot, and in most ways failed at “photo safari”. However, we did manage to go to [...]
Trip to Hospital
Everyone is fine. It’s a natural place to take institutional photos. Playing with my recently acquired iPhone and the Holga filter of Camerabag. It’s kinda fun, killed some time, and everyone is fine.
Vacation with Multiple Lenses
I felt more hesitant switching lenses around in Mexico, drawn by the vibrant color and textures to stick with my standard lens. It seemed risky to me to play around with the Lensbaby, maybe I’d miss a better snap. It’s a different type of reflection on the trip, my plastic shots. I’m still very enamored [...]
New Lens in Victoria, BC
So much for enjoying our staycation! After being homebound in a foot of snow for what felt like weeks, Vic and I were quite happy to be journeying North on the Victoria Clipper. While I’ve wanted to do some camping and hiking on Vancouver Island, Victoria’s reputation as an pale substitute for Ye Olde England [...]
Drive Across Washington
A friend of mine in Pittsburgh has nearly stopped communicating but for small slices of video. As one might expect when making short clips about daily life, some are rather prosaic. As often as not though, there is a large amount of emotion in the simplest activity. What has been inspiring me about them is [...]
Spray Park in HDR (Beginners Edition)
For all my seasonal talk about trying to switch up this blog into a more web-friendly experience, swapping in more bicycling again, or delving deeper into content, it’s the side projects of content management that I find more interesting. I recently started organizing and tagging my pictures in Aperture and am learning some tricks there [...]
Photo Safari: the Snohomish Slough
Everett is a small working-class city north of Seattle. The Snohomish River dumps into the Puget Sound there in a confusing delta of islands. Years ago, most of the river has been diked, diverted and channeled to create lush farms in the flood plain. With Pam and I flush from our non-success of Vancouver shooting, [...]
End of Bike Nerd?
I started this blog as a way to keep my pals in Seattle up-to-date on my bicycling adventures. For the past year, I haven’t had any bicycle adventures and I am back in Seattle. This creates a special kind of problem for a blog called, “Bike Nerd.” It’s been a month since I’ve posted and [...]
On Assignment: Lessons on Photo Junket
Last week my pal Pam called to take me to Vancouver. Ostensibly, I was to read the map and, if lucky, act as a second lens to her assignment: fill in the photographic gaps for a prominent guidebook of British Columbia. I like taking photos, but until now, they’ve been secondary to what it is [...]
Extended! Whichever Stone You Lift
Whichever Stone You Lift: Memorials from Grove Street’s Jewish Cemetery has been extended two weeks! If you live in the Boston area, you now have until August 10th before it finally comes down. You can read more about it in my short interview with the Boston Globe, here. In complete honesty, if you would have [...]
Lost Vacation
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I’d say something interesting about found photos. However, after working all day in unseasonably hot weather to get my show up, I haven’t a bit of wit nor seriousness left. “Everyone knows how to use a camera.” “Lost Vacation: Found Photos on Going Places, 1972-1983“, officially opens on [...]
Finders Keepers: Boston Globe Interview
I am happy to report that one of my photos was used in the cover story of this week’s Boston Globe Calendar. The focus of Cate McQuaid’s article is in on found photos, including the current show at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem. I’ll save my commentary on found photos for a few more weeks [...]
At My First Art Opening
I underestimated how much work it would take to hang my art show in Boston. I underestimated nearly everything about it. In the end, the amount of planning and work paid off. With the assistance of the Brookline Art Center’s staff and volunteers, the hanging and opening went smoothly. The photographs looked great in the [...]