Thoughts – September 7, 2022

Things that run through my mind as I gaze at my two week old daughter: What are you thinking? What’s with all the peach fuzz, downy soft, all over your body, including the light powder puff clouds on your cheeks? You’re kind of hairy. Is that my nose? Are those my eyes? My fingers and […]

New York, New York (in BW)

There are some books that are written out of order– they start somewhere in the middle and piece together the various strands of the story into a woven tapestry of scenes, pictures, and images. Not every moment is recorded, and not every scene is explained, but it all becomes one cohesive whole at the end […]

Embarking on a Black and White Journey

For those of you who follow me on Instagram in addition to this blog, you already know that, starting January 1 of this year, I started on a new project. Yes, my friends– I am now shooting in all black and white. And I am not talking about just converting select color photos to black and white, but […]

James Turrell: “we are dwellers at the bottom of the ocean of air.”

James Turrell is a master of light. … We went to the de Young in San Francisco to check out the Ed Ruscha exhibit a couple months ago. We had tickets to see the museum, too, and we were excited to explore properly. A friend of mine was married at the de Young years ago, […]

Inspiration: Looking Up

I recently went to a talk given by Pei Ketron (@pketron, Penelope’s Loom) in the Apple Store of downtown San Francisco. Her talk was a part of Apple’s #startsomethingnew campaign, and it was the first time I decided to get “out there” and meet someone new from the Instagram world. Pei’s photography is beautiful, crisp, […]