Journal | A genius, so to speak, for sauntering

It's a good day for photo editing and I'm focusing on images from summer to remind myself that although winter is long here, it does eventually pass and when it does it's worth the wait.

Alaska is many things and the view from most of the world is of mountains, whales, glaciers, float planes…you know Alaska stuff, the reason people get on cruise ships to come up here. As impressive and beautiful as all that is…

For the New York Times, Thursday December 10, 2009

For the New York Times, Friday November 20, 2009

This is a quick note that hopefully will save a few people some of the time I just spent. I use a an old Mac G4 as a development server here to test ideas before they go live. It is ...

I've a added a few new still life photos to the gallery today. As usual they are also available under recent images. There are many things I love about presenting images on the web, but I'm often disappointed when I ...

Just a quick note announcing that the 'people photography' gallery is now official. I'll continue adding to it as images are prepared. That's right not even a volcano warning stops the presses here…what a crazy place Alaska can be.

[More like this in recent images] *A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men's; then, to have seen much and to have nothing, is ...

The web host I use for this site just spent the last 24 hours dealing with a massive denial of service attack so things have been a little bumpy here. Now that it looks like they now have it under ...

We are finally over the hump and days are getting longer once again. We've earned an extra 23 seconds today, tomorrow it will be 36. I'll be traveling a bit for the holidays so the posts are going to be ...

Although I've been in this house since early summer, I still have a couple unsorted boxes of negatives from the move. I came across this image of Tom Harrell from a recording session several years ago at the Jazz Showcase ...

I've finally uploaded enough photographs to the Lake Clark National Park gallery for it to be a legitimate gallery, complete with link in the portfolio page. So far the gallery contains fifteen images and it's a little light on photos ...

I've added a couple new images to the database today from Wyoming. (They are in recent images) Both images are taken from the border between the Teton and Washakie wilderness areas near the Borner Fork of Butte Creek. The image ...

I've been thinking a bit about the influence of nostalgia and romanticism in landscape photography. While there is certainly an aspect of romanticism that dwells in nostalgia (our good friends over at sohothedog make some interesting points in this regard), ...

I'm continuing the slow upgrade of the people photography portfolio today. The image is the cover art for the wonderful album Be Still My Soul by Michelle Culbertson. It's available here and just about everywhere else music is available. I ...

This image was shot for DePaul University's admissions material. It is part architectural photo and part environmental portrait. The fun part of this image is dealing with three light sources: the natural light in the windows, the tungsten stage and ...

I'll be adding a few photos today in order to get the 'People Photography' portfolio fleshed out enough to add it to the list of portfolios soon. I'll be focusing on the musicians today. Above is the spectacular soprano [Rachel ...

In 1705, according to legend, the 20 year-old Johann Sebastian Bach walked 250 miles to the town of Lübeck to hear the famed organist Dieterich Buxtehude. Buxtehude was well known as a composer, but he was a superstar of organ ...

I've added a couple recent still life photographs from the archives to the recent photos gallery. These are part of a larger series of botanical images, which I will be uploading soon.

I am gradually adding new scans and a few new images from an ongoing love of making photographs of the ocean. I am sometimes dissatisfied with the concreteness of photography and these photos allow me to escape the camera's insistence ...

I've added five images to the website from the old days in Chicago. Until I have uploaded enough to fill a portfolio page, they can be found in recent images. The image above is from one of my favorite places ...

I am adding a handful of older still life photographs shot on 4x5 transparency film and scanned several years ago on the Kodak Pro Photo CD system. These were excellent scans for their time at a bargain price, and although ...

I just received a handful of advance copies of a print of my Pasta Cutter (or Tagliapasta as they say in the old country) image from the Foto:Box collection released by the Italian publisher Corriere della Sera. (Yes that's right, ...

I've posted a handful of new images today. Not all of them have a portfolio yet in which to reside, but they should all be available under recent images.

I've added two images: one of an image made along the Oregon coast with the Pacific Ocean showing its wet, foggy side, which will be added to the Landscape Gallery, the other is is a portrait. When I get enough ...