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
If I Had Only Wore a Mask…
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If I Had Only Wore a Mask…

Your plan for hiring scouts in Scotland sounds wise. I have only done that for assignment shoots, though one time in Yorkshire I hired a driver to tour us around the Dales looking for monastery ruins. I mostly did it because I didn’t want to drive a stick shift car on the left side of road. Plus, I knew he…
February 26, 2024Posted inarchitecture, England, London, Musings, Odds and Ends, Travels, Uncategorized
An Interesting Journey
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An Interesting Journey

My work has always evolved as my interests changed. The only constant is the camera. And even that changes. Thou not fundamentally. I began to move toward digital around 2000 when I had my first Iris ink jet prints made. They were largely copies of my darkroom prints, just bigger. But color began to slip in as well. I began…
September 18, 2023Posted inMusings, Seattle, Uncategorized
Weary
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Weary

Entering the cold dark days of winter. I feel tired a lot. Physically, mentally and emotionally. Long walks help. But there's a lot of waiting. Waiting. And more waiting. When asked how I am doing, it really hard to say exactly and the only word that comes to mind is weary.
December 29, 2022Posted inMusings, Seattle, Uncategorized
What am I looking at?
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What am I looking at?

Portrait Pro software is pretty cool, especially when you do as many headshots and portraits as I do. It is a very simple way to give skin tones the spa treatment. I think it works better too, with women than men for some reason. Maybe because smoothing out men’s skin is not so fashionably desired as smoothing out a women’s…
November 9, 2022Posted inMusings, Roma, Travels, Uncategorized