A Place to Find a Little Peace
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A Place to Find a Little Peace

It rains here today as it has off and on all weekend. But we need it and the gardens are happy. I mostly have this year’s edition of the garden in place. A few more perennials and fewer plants over all on the deck. With the perennials I hopefully won’t have to reinvent the garden every year. I am sure…
May 19, 2025Posted inGardens, Musings, Seattle
Empathy
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Empathy

I think it is easy to sympathize with a person or people going through difficult time. It is easy to keep your emotions at a distance and not lose any sleep at night. But empathy is a real feeling and it seems it is a learned emotion. Or it least it has been for me. I had a friend many…
May 15, 2025Posted inGardens, Seattle
Keep Moving
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Keep Moving

The big dark is over for now and spring has arrived. Winter was a bit tough as I coughed my way through bronchitis and fought my through fatigue. I no sooner healed up when we found out little Barney has cancer. Another one of life's tests. it seems they never end and with each hurdle we adapt and keep moving.…
April 16, 2025Posted inMusings
Sentimental Snapshot
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Sentimental Snapshot

Update on my Instagram contact that was interested in a print. Turns out they were only interested in a memento and not art. They were locked into getting a 12x12” image to match their current lineup of other 12x12 images. Plus, they wanted to have it printed there with the other images so they would match. So, they want to…
March 24, 2025Posted inarchitecture, Musings, Seattle
Quietly Ride off into the Sunset
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Quietly Ride off into the Sunset

Yes, setting up printers can be a pain, thou I don’t recall having much trouble with mine. But that that was 10 years ago and perhaps I have suppressed the painful memories. Every now and then my computer forgets the paper profiles in my system, and I have dink around and fix that, but otherwise no major printing problems. But…
March 4, 2025Posted inMusings
They Just Present Themselves
Posted inLandscapes Musings Seattle

They Just Present Themselves

I enjoy making my little iPhone pics. They are not grand themes or anything. They are just little moments in my travels, mostly from my walks. What’s interesting is that I can look at them and know almost exactly when and where I took them. I can almost remember the moment too. Because they are all immediate responses to something…
February 19, 2025Posted inLandscapes, Musings, Seattle
Time to be Done
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Time to be Done

My career is perhaps easier to explain. When I left grad school, my goal was to teach, work with galleries with my personal work and do commercial assignments. It took me awhile to figure out you can’t do all 3 or at least all 3 well. Within 6 weeks  of arriving in Seattle, I had a gallery, apart time teaching…
January 29, 2025Posted inUncategorized
Weird But True
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Weird But True

Handheld photography is very liberating. Being unencumbered with gear is great feeling. Responding to a moment is satisfying too. I had to use a tripod in much of my assignment work over the years and I always found it to be tedious and labor intensive. I am not steady of hand either, so I need to pick a fast shutter…
January 8, 2025Posted inarchitecture, Seattle
See Paris One More Time
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See Paris One More Time

My year end assessments were pretty boring. An article popped up in the local newspaper asking readers to tell them how you’re feeling. I wanted to respond, thinking I might be an interesting demographic. I pondered it a lot on my walks. But I kept stumbling on their question, what’s on your mind? Your hopes, your plans, your goals, your…
January 8, 2025Posted inFrance, Musings, Paris, Travels
My Own Personal Belle Epoch
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My Own Personal Belle Epoch

My archive does look organized, and to a certain extent it is. The film in the binders is more organized than the prints in the drawers and boxes. Open those up and there is an explosion of a visual cacophony. When I pull out binders to look at old contact sheets, it can be dangerous. What might start out as…
December 17, 2024Posted inCelebrations, Musings, Travels