Something Fishy
One of my favorite characters in fantasy literature, J.R.R. Tolkein's Smeagol, would have appreciated the nice, plump and juicy slab of fish I brought back from the store. The fish…
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April 5, 2014
Fly Day
What day is it today? For many of us it is "Fly Day"---no matter what the calendar says. And while flying, what better way to while away the time than…
September 25, 2013
Van Gogh’s Church at Auvers
Auvers-sur-Oise is hallowed ground for fans of Vincent van Gogh (and who isn't a fan?). Here he painted many of his greatest paintings, lived the last 93 days of his…
July 25, 2013
Derrière
This statue was resident in the lobby at the Hotel Lutetia in Paris when we held the 2013 Photograph Paris with Harold Davis workshop. It amused me to snap an…
July 6, 2013
The infinitesimal and the infinite
I think perhaps that The Incredible Shrinking Man, a 1957 film about a man who shrinks to nothing following an encounter with a radioactive cloud, had an indelible impact on a portion…
April 4, 2013
Smoking Gun
There's one somewhat discordant element in this tableau of a metallurgic assayer's desk, shot at Laws Railroad Museum near Bishop, California. What is the gun doing in the image? According to…
March 29, 2013
Tennessee Beach Landslide
For many years one of the pleasures of the two-mile hike down to Tennessee Beach in the Marin Headlands has been to view the wonderful hole in the cliff on…
January 3, 2013
Encapsulation
When you have four kids like I do, shopping for food occurs frequently. The one thing you want to do when you take the kids into the supermarket is to…
December 15, 2012
Emergence
The idea behind Within the Canvas (below) is to show the model emerging from a background. It is not clear where the model begins and where the model ends. Model and…
December 10, 2012
Signifying the Whale
I fondly dubbed my shot of a wet cyclamen "Moby Dick" because the flower looked to me like a white whale. I never expected the New Bedford Whaling Museum---surely an…
October 26, 2012
Like a Titian
With this image featuring the travelling model Kellie my idea was to recreate something of the feeling of a Titian painting, particularly in the folds of red velvet draped on…
October 18, 2012
Ghosts of Grand Central
Wandering around New York with my camera after an absence of many years was in some ways a dissonant experience. I grew up in New York City, but the New…
September 29, 2012
Sweet
If you go into any restaurant these days and look at the diners who are eating alone, most of them are likely to be playing with their smartphones. Some of…
September 26, 2012
Fixing my iPhone at “Joe’s”
So I love and hate my iPhone. My iPhone 4 is the camera I always have with me, and it is a joy to schlep compared to my full and weighty…
August 13, 2012
Falcon Motorcycle
The other day I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to photograph a Falcon Motorcycle. These motorcycles are one-of-a-kind completely handmade works of art. As I particularly enjoy photographing machinery it…
July 26, 2012
Too much information
An abandoned cement field in West Oakland near the docks was filled with large, rusting metal pipes, maybe ten feet in diameter. What was their original purpose? Why were they…
July 19, 2012
Seeing beyond the obvious
In the great seafaring Aubrey-Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian, the bad guys often get their just comeuppance using a ruse de guerre that in hindsight should have been obvious. Admiral…
July 16, 2012
In Clarion Alley
Alleys can be magical places. Just think of Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books. The Mission District of San Francisco has a number of alleys, made magical by the…
June 25, 2012