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Calm

In a sea of chaos, be an island of peace.

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The Westerner

Sometime in the mid 1960s, passenger rail ended for stops serviced by the Westerner, and gone were the days of riding the streamliner west to El Paso or east to Fort Worth. Cars and airplanes replaced passenger trains as speed and convenience took hold.

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Carscapes

I did the unthinkable and walked in a city as a pedestrian, reminding myself that we live in car scapes. The fact that nobody stopped and asked me to explain myself surprised me.

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Gear

Photography is 10% taking pictures and 90% watching camera reviews.

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Happy

A dog barks, tin clanks, and wind whooshes across dormant branches.

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35, 50

In 35mm, perhaps the distance between observational and participatory imaging is fifteen millimeters.

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February Afternoon

Bare trees stretch up in bright light near dormant vegetation, in chilly air, in a park, near highway traffic, beside a path, and a chance to do something creative.

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Auxiliary Viewfinders

Forget new lenses and camera specs. One of the most freeing things we can add to our photography is an auxiliary viewfinder because it removes precision.

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New York Town

I caught the subway and went downtown. Helvetica lettering pointed the way. Passenger cars rocked, rattled, and clanked in the dark, and a platform musician sang Country Roads. People smiled on the boat to the Statue of Liberty, and Manhattan’s mountains rose above the harbor, where I later walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, picturing it as I would in a dry, dusty town.

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The Bigger Picture

There are many things to learn. The point of the arts isn’t to make a living doing art. Instead, if done well, we’ll witness the lived reality of the person making something become more widely known.

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HEIC

Who wants to fidget with large raw files? A JPEG is good enough, and now we have 10-bit HEIC.

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Seeing Layers

The 50mm lens is more front-to-back than side-to-side and compresses things together, perfect for layering foregrounds over backgrounds.

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Traveling Kind

Art includes the freedom to wander off. If someone says that they want to be an artist, that’s like trying to write words around the unexplainable. Why do it? Explore the unknown.

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In our lifetime

We’re our age for a short while, yet the present touches eternity.

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Sunset Limited

With a ticket, backpack, and several rolls of Kodak Gold, I watched Amtrak’s Sunset Limited coast to a stop at Alpine, 2 PM, would reach Los Angeles at 9 AM, December 2005.