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Journal | A genius, so to speak, for sauntering

...notes on the landscape, wilderness & photography

July, 2009

Weekend Reading: Brassaï on Proust
26 | posted under: Musings
Ida Rubinstein as Zobeide in Scheherazade, Ballets Russes 1910, La Tollette, Gustave Moreau

Proust would have known another case of "reconquest" by photography, that of the lovely Lady Evelyne Buchan, nicknamed "the Pocket Venus" by London society because of her diminutive stature. Like Misia, the Pocket Venus had been abandoned by her husband…

Photography Etudes
23 | posted under: Musings · Photography Techniques
Garlic Scapes, Studio

Music school provided a great photography education; that's where I learned to practice. And you do learn to practice. Practice in itself is a skill. Yet photographers are generally not taught how to practice.

The Inevitable River
20 | posted under: Musings
Anacreontick's in Full Song by James Gillray, National Portrait Gallery London/Wikipedia Commons

I've written previously about museums locking up public domain works. Last week an interesting case bubbled to the surface

Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
14 | posted under:
Lariat on Grave Marker, Wyoming

Ah, Bastille Day! An excuse to prop my feet on the table, crank some François Joseph Gossec (Perhaps the Grande Messe des morts) on the stereo, dig out my best-of collection of political pamphleteers

Performance Enhancing Photoshop
10 | posted under: Digital Alterations

Earlier this week the New York Times retracted a photo essay by Edgar Martins with the note: "A picture essay in The Times Magazine on Sunday and an expanded slide show on NYTimes.com entitled 'Ruins of the Second Gilded Age'"

Ambient Heaven
06 | posted under: Website Business · Musings · Photography Techniques
Bronc Rider, Wyoming

I've been away again for several weeks in Wyoming pursuing some personal work which included among other things photographing behind the scenes at the Cody Stampede Rodeo. I'm back home for a while and will be editing photos and making blog postings here…