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Big Color Phase

One way I am looking at this is a fresh start. And trying not to dwell too much on past work. Revising past work would be slippery slope to go down. Even now I look at older work and tend to leave it alone. It represents where I was at that moment in time. I went through a “big color”…

July 12, 2022Musings, Odds and Ends, Seattle, Uncategorized

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Creating Stuff

This is perhaps the coldest, wettest spring I have ever seen since I moved to Seattle. Normally the cool damp weather doesn't bother be me much. As I tell folks I spent the first 20 years of my life here mostly in the darkroom. So I often missed the worst of it. Sunny days were never dark room days. But…

June 17, 2022Floral, Gardens, Musings, Odds and Ends

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Not All Journeys Are Focused

Stuart, I forget when you return from your travels or if you check emails when you do. At either rate I am sure this little note will pop up in your in box at some point. As usual, my creative efforts are scattered. Never one to truly focus on a project, I jump around tinkering with this and that. Isn’t…

May 26, 2022Musings, Odds and Ends, Portraits, Seattle

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A Convenient Stopping Point

Matthew, Thought of you today on a couple of levels. First of all I see you have elected a new PM. Is that a good thing? I must confess to not knowing a lot about Australian politics, other than you all seem more sane down there than we are here. But from what I have read, are not both men…

May 24, 2022Musings, Odds and Ends, Seattle, Uncategorized

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A Centuries Old Souvenir

I am not sure you are still doing this theme, heirlooms right? I thought about it when the theme first came up but felt my heirlooms are mostly old photographs, mine and my family’s. Then I thought of this. A key to the Abbey of Mont St Michele in Normandy France. I acquired it in 1997 while working on a…

May 5, 2022France, Musings, Odds and Ends, Travels

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See What You Are Missing?

Too bad you are not here to help me judge the Washington State High School Photography Competition this Saturday. It is something I have been involved with since 2006. I have been a judge on and off and this was to be an off year, but a judge bowed out for some reason and the director of the program, who…

May 5, 2022Celebrations, Musings, Odds and Ends, Seattle

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Large has Other Meanings

A photo friend of mine recently died and it has put me in a mood of sorts. We weren’t close friends, and he was older and had pretty serious health issues. But he was a really nice guy and someone I always thought of as a real treasure of the photo world. He started out shooting for the school newspaper…

April 22, 2022Celebrations, Portraits, Seattle

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With Enough Cajoling

Your comment about print versus screen image was interesting. I asked the archivist at MS what she valued more, the original film or the finished print? Without hesitation, she said film. But she is an archivist. If you as a gallerist, the would say print, something touched by the artist and produced in his vision. I see both points of…

April 6, 2022Musings, Odds and Ends

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Rush Hour Chicken Run

I came up with an idea that made me think of you. I had told you about running my printer to keep the jets from gumming up and I thought, rather than it being a maintenance exercise, what not do “A Print of the Week” series. And be somewhat serious about it. I have already made a few such prints…

March 31, 2022Musings, Odds and Ends, Seattle

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If You Can’t Make it Good, Make it Big

Or make it red, or reverse it out or some combination of all 4. Ever hear those rules for good design? Or good art in general? I actually have a poster from a UW design professor that incorporates all 4 of these properties. I even once heard that National Geographic Magazine encouraged their photogs to have red in their pictures.…

March 30, 2022Musings, Seattle