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Jul 30, 2019
2 min

Comin' Home

When I came to the desert at the tail end of 1974, it was to demo for my first potential client, the Cliff Brown Agency. My wife worked f...

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Jan 17, 2019
2 min

A Life in the Day

I have done some strange stuff to get photographs. My first year (3rd year of college) at Syracuse U. (1969-70) I broke into an abandoned...

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Dec 3, 2018
4 min

Is Photography Art?

One of the more provocative quotes by a photographer: “Photography is not an art. Photography is more important than art. We photographer...

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Oct 16, 2018
2 min

Where does inspiration come from?

How is that you can stare at an object (like a pool hose) for over 10 years and see nothing other than a pool hose, and then one day you ...

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Oct 9, 2018
2 min

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”

That, of course is an Al Pacino line from the movie The Godfather Part III. Well, here I am, experiencing the same thing. I thought I was...

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Oct 4, 2018
2 min

Cross my palm with silver

Back in the late 60’s, before archival printing standards became common among dedicated darkroom workers, Kodak was the only game in town...

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Oct 1, 2018
2 min

It's like walking into a brick wall

With 38 or so seemingly outstanding photos of the flock of pigeons, it’s time to move on. The question of course, is, where to? I have sa...

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Sep 29, 2018
2 min

On Photographing a Flock of Pigeons

Thinking and doing are mutually exclusive activities. Like the Pauli Exclusion Principle, they can’t both occupy the same space at the sa...

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