I have long been compelled to write a post on whom I believe is the most important Mexican (or Latin American) photographer to have clicked a shutter: Manuel Alvarez Bravo. In…
Did you ever see something that you just knew would make a great photo but couldn’t quite figure out how to compose it? Me too. Sometimes it’s not until later,…
Sounds like a bad luck kind of place, doesn’t it? For some it most certainly was but for others it was a source of considerable riches. The Shohones who inhabited…
We went through Filer, Idaho, a couple of weeks ago and because it was a town neither Carollen or I knew, decided to take a walk down its Main Street,…
Hell or High Water Old China #1 Fat Cat Dot and Duffy, and, of course Egad! Did you know that people name their claims as well as their mines? Those…
This lock down we’re all experiencing must be a real pain in the keester for some people, especially those who are out of work because of it, not to mention…
Prompted by several inspiring essays that I’ve seen by other photographers around the world, noticeably in Krakow and Budapest, I decided to see what was happening in downtown Boise. Had…
During the latter part of the 19th century, a school of art (and literature) called “orientalism” flourished for several decades. Its practitioners were particularly entranced by the Arab world, or…
Boats pretty much top the list of things I like to shoot, well, inanimate things anyway. I have few, if any, photos of them out of the water that impress…
I have long thought that much of my photography belongs on somebody’s wall, somewhere, somehow. Getting it there has been like pulling teeth, however. So my solution is this: a…
