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It’s a chill that permeates to the bone. Not simply cold, but, for lack of a better word, a frosty cold. Combine below freezing...

Although my wife and I have spent a modest amount of our lives living in, or visiting, desert areas of the US, we’ve come to the...

Garfield Peak, Crater Lake National Park I don’t tend to gravitate toward photographing mountains, and I generally don’t care for other...

27 February 2024 Last year I got myself scheduled for a March 2024 show at the Klamath Art Gallery. Late in 2023 I began the process of...

Here you will find some of my photographs from the past year that are my own favorites, and a bit of discussion about some of them. I...

Schonchin Butte in summer, with clouds The most distinctive landmark of Lava Beds National Monument is Schonchin Butte, the top of which...

At some point in the late summer I ascertained that my photography was essentially going nowhere, and I resolved that I MUST get out with...

Note: My usual intent with this blog is to create posts that attend to matters of photography, in a way that I hope will be intelligible...

Boat and Danube River, Austria For years, my wife Vivian has been telling me we should go to Europe. With visions in my head of heat,...

Prior to a recent trip to the Discovery Islands, between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia (see my previous post for the...

On the surface, it sounded idyllic: My wife Vivian and I, along with three friends, would be dropped at a small island between Vancouver...

Gene touring a ridge, with Brokeoff Mountain in the background Who hasn’t said “How have I lived where I do for so long, and not been...

For much of the past 15 years, the bulk of my photography has been done with black and white film, using a 4x5 inch view camera and a 6x7...

A couple years ago I purchased a 6x12 back for my 4x5 camera. The camera normally uses sheets of film, each 4 inches by 5 inches, but the...

I have a fairly extensive library of books featuring the work of a number of famous (in the photography world, anyway) and not-so-famous...

When I venture out with a camera, I never know what might happen. Typically, I am fortunate to get one photograph I like in a day of...

It is not unusual for me to be at home looking at a photograph recently made and see something I hadn't noticed when making the image....

I'm fortunate to live in a place where I have access to a large variety of landscapes within just an hour or two driving time from my...

Due to a mishap mentioned in a previous post, I’m currently in the process of going through old black and white negatives and culling out...

Bristlecone 5, Windy Ridge, Colorado I recently had the opportunity to photograph some bristlecone pines in Colorado. Shortly afterward I...