The Halloween Dress

Happy Halloween.

The Trumpet in the Orchestra of Evolution

We live beneath a bird highway.  Every year thousands of Sandhill Cranes use the highway to fly back and forth to summer breeding grounds and winter feeding grounds.  They mark the changes of summer to autumn and winter to spring for us.  We use them to keep track of our lives. 

We heard the first [...]

Off to the Grand Canyon

We’re off to the bottom of the Grand Canyon for a week of hiking, camping and reflection. Which is just another way of saying that no new entries will be posted for a week. The internet does not reach to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Nor does electricity either, except at [...]

Middle-Aged Model’s Lament

From the New Yorker comes this animated cartoon.
I promise to post the first cartoon I find about middle-aged photographers.

Buttocks?

My reader recently pointed out that I’ve yet to post one of my own photographs on this blog. (Except for the header.) She knows that I am resisting the blogger’s fatal flaw: Narcissism, but she thinks I may be over-reacting.
So, without further ado. . . .

Snapshots and Art

Snapshots as Art
In addition to an Edward Hopper show and the J.M.W. Turner show, the National Gallery of Art in Washington has a show of anonymous snapshots taken in the United States from 1888 to 1978. Sadly, the National Gallery still maintains one of the most boring websites you’ll attend this year and they [...]

Adobe’s Damn Dam, Part II

Harumph.  I see that Adobe, hard on the heels of its release of Lightroom and Photoshop CS3, has also just released Elements 6.  I haven’t looked at the new Elements 6 yet but woe betide those people if it has yet another DAM to learn.  DAM, for those of you blissfully ignorant of such matters, [...]

Ruth Bernhard Photos in Art Show

Faithful readers — there is at least one, I think — will know that I am a great admirer of the work of Ruth Bernhard. Here is my earlier post about her. I am always casting about, looking for a reason to post another of her photos. I found an excuse just today [...]

Fluffytek Blog Review

I admit to being an Anglophile. How can you not love the British who brought us Shakespeare, Churchill and J.M.W. Turner ? Back in the days when the dollar was healthy and Americans could afford to travel to Europe, I went to the U.K. as often as I could. I feel safer and [...]

Sexual Harassment, Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill

[I know this is a blog about photography but I'm going slightly afield today because I am in a state of high dudgeon about Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court and his latest book. We'll get back to photography tomorrow. You can read some of the press coverage here and here.
I [...]