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Falling Apart
I don't know how I missed focus so badly on this. The photo that came before it was focussed perfectly. It is my eyes, I am certain. I must be only guessing at focus. I like the photo, though, and...
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The Street Whisperer
Photographing people is sleazy. I've been thinking about it. It is just wrong. The only photographs of people should be selfies or ones of which the subject has control. I get criticized when I...
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Monday Always Comes
No matter. Monday always comes, and everything you thought of on the weekend falls into the work pile. You think one thing, then you think another. There is no end to it. You get up and read the...
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The Wolf at the Door
Felt bad yesterday. Headache. Body aches. Came home early. Bought Thai chicken noodle soup, Thai hot. Ate early, didn't drink. Took extra strength pain reliever. Drank water. Got into bed...
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Stupid Doesn't Care
Well, I didn't watch "The Wolf at the Door" last night. I came home feeling punky, so I made a simple dinner and plopped my ass down on the couch and watched a little of the RNC convention. Not...
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Maybe
Big Drama. Ted Cruz didn't endorse Trump. Oooooooooooo. I haven't heard anyone talk about carbon emissions and climate change at the RNC convention. The world is blowing up, and people are worried...
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Maybe Music
I've been sitting here looking at this picture and wondering if I have anything to say, during which time I have been texting with Q and Ili about Steve Gunn. Ili played Gunn for me last night on a...
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Doomed and Flummoxed
The rain comes down. And just as I write those words, a transformer across the street blows out with a boom and a flash. Luckily, it is not the grid I am on. That would be miserable. That would be...
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Why Make Up New Stuff?
I told you so! From CNN:Donald Trump comes out of his convention ahead of Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.Trump expanded his lead with white voters who do not hold a college degree...
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Power to the People
Power to the People. You know which ones. I didn't watch the convention last night. I forgot. I meant to, I think, at one point, but I'd been watching Bourdain's Layover series and had a hankering...
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The Anxiety of Influence
I came across this article today (link), an accusation of plagiarism by one photographer of another. One is better known, the other a comer. There are links to their works in the article. Take a look...
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Old Time Religion
I stayed up too late last night watching the DNC. Why do they do it so late? I saw all the major speeches. . . and I says to myself, I says. . . "Who in the hell is watching this?"Nobody under forty,...
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Tropical Somnambulist
The convention ended with a whimper, I think, rather than a bang. I would have stayed up to watch Hillary's historic speech if they hadn't pieced together a tapestry of amateur testimonials leading up...
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Morning Whine
I want to watch "Don't Blink," a film about Robert Frank. It is available online from a number of sources, but I am not versed in what is dangerous and what is not. They all want you to sign up and...
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Plexiglass
When I was in college, my roommate and I used to go see the cinema series that was shown in the student union. It was a nice theater and usually the films were strange and good. We never had any...
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In Place
Even the cat has abandoned me. She is going outside now for the first time in. . . I don't remember. She only needs me to feed her and clean her box. I am no more than a provider. It is like that,...
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A Private Club for One
Rather than vacationing, I have stayed at home, mostly in the house except for going to the gym and lying by the pool. I've been blue and haven't talked to anyone which is a good way to begin to work...
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RIP: Ed Ross
I found out today that one of my buddies, the photographer Ed Ross, was killed in a motorcycle accident on Saturday. I first "met" Ed in 2009 when we began emailing and sharing images with one...
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Ed Ross Tribute--All F'ed Up
I tried. I made my start. I got out the big 8x10 camera and began to work. There are a lot of locks and slides and levers and buttons on the camera and tripod head, and I turned all the wrong ones...
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They Don't Want You To Be So Free
Freedom is terrifying. . . for most people. . . I think. It is especially terrifying in others. How much can you trust other people? Especially to make a moral choice. Most of us don't even trust...
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