Friday, June 18, 2010 
Adian - May, 2010My nephew Jake graduated over the Memorial weekend so I headed to Kentucky for the festivities. It's always a good chance to photograph the family and put some more images in the bank, so to speak, as we all grow older.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 
Jobo ClipsWhen I first started developing large format film, my buddy and all around good guy Michael, told me to get these Jobo clips. They are expensive but he told me they were worth every penny.
After a year of using binder clips in a makeshift kinda way, I finally listened to what he had to say and bought some. I used them for the first time tonight and he was, as usual, correct in his assessment. Worth every penny.
Friday, August 14, 2009 
Shanghai InternationalI'm off to the UK tomorrow on business with the hope that I'll get some time to make some images as well. This is a particularly hard week for doing that but I'm going to try and bring some images home. This will be an exercise in pushing through the uncomfortable feelings of pointing a camera at other human beings and I'm psyching myself up for it now as I write.
I added a new gallery today of images that are graphical in nature. I tend to see these things everyday and see if I can make a decent image. More often than not what I get is not what I wanted, but there are those occasions when I think I might actually know what I'm doing.
I've been looking for themes throughout my work from the last couple of years. I've been really concentrating on getting out with the camera and have a growing number of images to choose from. Most of them are B&W, taken with the Leica and from my travels. But there are some in color and I'll get some of those up once the G5 returns and I get back from the UK. But what I've found while perusing through the negatives is that all of the stuff I really like has been taken with the Leica. I'm not sure why that is but it's very obvious as I look at the work. I've got a feeling this is what will dominate the new galleries as I post them.
The images look a little jpeg challenged to me. I think I might have been a bit too aggressive in the compression. Let me know what you think and as always any comments are welcome.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 
An unexpected hiccup happened today when the G5 I've owned for 5 years decided it didn't want to turn on any longer than a millisecond. So it's now at the shop, and it's absence is putting a dent into my ability to get images prepared for online viewing.
In an effort to be a bit productive today I've caught up on some scanning on the old set up. Of course, then I'll be behind in getting them spotted and adjusted, but at least I'll have some new stuff to post up in the near future.
I'm still behind in the development of large format film and want to get some of it done as well. But it's been too blasted hot here to get it done. Film has an aversion to 85 degree temperatures.
So here's an image from Japan. I'm not sure if I like it very much, if it conveys anything or not and whether it's even a remotely decent image. But I've been going back through old negatives and looking at where I at least attempted to include human beings in the image. They are too few and far between.
I'm off to Annenberg tomorrow to hear David Burnett speak. I'm looking forward to it.