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Photographic Mind/No Mind: Zen Time
When you meet people on the street and ask if you can photograph them, you have to get the picture in a shot or two. At least that is what it feels like. But if I were to slow down a bit and think...
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Knock on the Door
Yesterday morning, I was startled by a hard knocking on my front door. I was in a t-shirt and boxers, but I cracked the door open to see. It was a woman from the sheriff's department. What the fuck...
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"You Don't Seem Yourself Today"
I'm a little lost lately. Everything is familiar in a routinized sense, but strange in every other way. I haven't been able to sleep the night through this past week waking around four every morning,...
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It Could be Said. . . .
I don't want to talk about the things that are on my mind. And I won't. But I haven't anything else to say, so I will simply post a series of quotes from last night's reading. Sally Mann. "Hold...
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Grumpy Pants
I am not waking up cheery. Grumpy Pants somebody said. It is true. I'm a Grumpy Pants man. I don't see an immediate remedy, an immediate end, to it, though. Keeping quiet is the best way for me to...
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Uncourtly Jester
vsI don't think I'm allowed to say anything. I don't think I'm allowed to make fun. Of course I can ridicule Scalia who is the fun bag of the Supreme Court. I can make fun of the conservative...
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Just to Remember
The summer afternoon storms come, the air becoming cooler and drier and, some say, even beautiful. Sometimes, on a half-cloudy day, when the breeze begins to kick up, the days are pretty, too....
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Weird Times Call for Good Reading
Did I shoot this from the hip? I must have, but the horizon is too straight. I don't remember taking this photograph at all. Perhaps I was holding the camera to my eye when they walked by. Maybe I...
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No Getting Back
O.K. I think my mania for the digital Leica has passed. I am very impressionable. I read this review today and now I want this instead. I don't know what I was thinking before. The world's a...
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Full Buck Moon
I skipped the gym yesterday and went to the hospital to see a friend who just had a knee replacement. It felt good to break with routine, good to walk across an unknown parking lot in the late...
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Thunder Moon
Another name for last night's full moon is the Thunder Moon. It lived up to its name. After a dinner of homemade Thai coconut soup, my friend and I walked to the lake to see the moon rise. Nothing...
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4th
Famous Frank. The 4th of July. Old Glory. Edward Weston was the one who got me interested. Robert Frank was the one made me go. Crazy different influences. Today the New York Times has a feature...
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Relentless
Seems ridiculous to post a picture like this after posting Robert Frank. I guess it is ridiculous. The weekend falls away on its own taking no notice of what happens or doesn't, time never to be...
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Everybody Smiles
Here are the musicians I photographed on the street in Santa Fe that I said then that I should have taken my time and made a better picture. I should have gotten closer, taken more than two, made a...
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No Country for Old Men
Where'd it all slip away? A man alone must contemplate. I didn't quite hit this shot. The focus is just off, the framing, too. Too fast, not enough practice. The photo isn't iconic, but the man...
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One Vile Task After Another
Sitting, waiting on the man. In this morning's case, it is the house repairman. The wall in my shower looked funny. I ran my hand along a seam and pushed. The wall seemed to give. Sickness in the...
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Good News
The repairman came this morning. There is no leaking pipe, so I don't have an emergency. I still have to get it fixed, but I have options on how to do that. A big weight, etc. I am better for...
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Revelations
I'm feeling wounded today. Too much fighting, too much drinking. Everything seems to be fading away. . . drifting. How does one tell the truth in an age that demands that we be merely revealing? We...
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Leicas and Horseflies, Caves and Springs
Holy shit! I bid on a Leica M a few days ago on eBay. It is a low bid and I was sure someone would have outbid me by now. I just checked, and there is only one day left. I don't have the money to...
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Jazzy Beachy Sunday Morning
.I was outbid on the Leica. It's o.k. It was silly. I have all the cameras I need. That was just. . . I don't know. . . desire. It would do a better job at what I want to do, but not that much...
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