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Top Twenty
My attention was arrested by an article listing the 20 most expensive photographs in history (link). Holy smokes! When I studied photography in college, my professor, Jerry Uelsmann, sold the most...
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Here Comes Santa
The holiday season has been flat at the old cafe this year, almost nonexistent. It is more like Festivus than Christmas, but these things are cyclical, I think. Or not. I can only wait to see. It...
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After Christmas
Christmas has come and gone. It is all a hollow, blurry mess. And now the post-Christmas trauma. Everything was off. It seems to have come on the wrong day this year. I tried and went through the...
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Fragmented Things
This picture is a mistake, a fragment, a confused moment. It could be said to mirror a feeling of nothingness, an empty life. It would be a strained and amateurish comparison, but it could be said....
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The Days Roll on in Black and White
I'm sick of setting up computer electronics. I bought a bunch of stuff for my mother, and every time I ask her for a password, she hasn't a clue what it is. I've told her over and over that passwords...
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Waiting and Hoping
Just needed some color, so. . . .Tried stretching our legs yesterday. I did the first earth-based run in six months (I think) yesterday on the old exercise course. I ran at an old man trotting pace,...
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The Queen
Part of the crowd leaving GatorWorld. I am addicted to these snatched moments of frozen time. Mythical strangers, a symbol of the whole. They announce, "We were here!" Part and parcel of The Great...
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The Passing
Most people I know are ready to say goodbye to this year, the year we got Trumped, but what do we look forward to? There are things. Overthrowing the Ogres, mostly, but that is a cultural-centric...
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Less Doom, More Joi
A new day. A new year. My mother stayed over last night. We all went to bed at 10:30. Everyone in the house is struggling to be healthy. Some bug that doesn't destroy you but keeps reminding you...
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We Could Not See the Super Moon
Whoa is me. I return to the factory today after having a totally dysfunctional holiday break. Not dysfunctional, actually, but there was little of the usual spirit of the season and there was the...
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Blog Doesn't Pay the Bills
Early factory work kept me away yesterday. It is just a fact of life. This blog just ain't paying the bills. And so. . . .So far, 2018 is looking a lot like 2017, except colder. Do people...
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Privately and Publicly
I don't know what to do with Christmas pictures now. I missed my opportunity, I guess. I took a bunch, but somehow they never got here. Sue me. I'll just combine that one with this one and let it...
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Workweek Interupted
I was at the factory late yesterday. My building was empty when I left. It was the end of a brutal week, a week of feeling poorly, of sleeping poorly, of eating poorly, and of drinking without...
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The Far Side
(Tatsuo Suzuki)Here are two photos by a photographer who has been shooting for awhile. He is one of my favorite street photographers. You have to have given up on everything else, I think, to shoot...
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Suffering Equally
In an interview with Mark Cohen- the interviewer asks Cohen if people ever react violently to him photographing them. Cohen responds:“A lot of times I had trouble with the cops, because if you walk...
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True to the Trade
I shouldn't post this here. I haven't sent it to her yet. This is one of the pictures from the experiments I've been running with wide angle lenses and daytime flash. I love the photo and will print...
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A Report From Your Intrepid Financial Advisor
O.K. My mother didn't appreciate the photograph the way she should have. Predicted. She says it makes her look 100 years old. I told her it was supposed to. Intent be damned. She isn't having it....
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Eternal Sin
Now that the courts are ordering Sex Aversion Therapy. . . I don't have a follow up for that. I can't think of an appropriate independent clause. I just thought it would be a logical "next step." And...
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Chinese Curse
Uh. . . what did I tell you about Franco? Always at least ten seconds ahead of the curve. “Relations between men and women in America are one of permanent war. They don’t seem to actually like each...
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Beauty and Bottles
I got beautified yesterday. I asked for a shorter cut. I don't recognize myself today. Funny how that happens. Q sent me a photo of himself in a suit in front of a Christmas tree this morning. I...
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