A purpose-built camera. I hesitate to write about gear. Tools are tools and the bitter truth is that a great craftsman rises above his tools to create a masterpiece whereas most of us try to improve our abominations by buying better or faster hammers to hit the same nails at the same awkward angles. The...
Marshall Beach. The first in what I intend to be a series on the coastline from Marshall Beach to Santa Cruz. A million heartbeats upon the hills to the east and not a soul but mine upon this cold, blue stretch of strand to watch the scruffy headlands and the Golden Gate turned vermillion by...
A belated “Happy New Year.” Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? Illness has made me late in wishing you all the very best in 2013 and thanking you all for your support and friendship in 2012. It’s my great pleasure to know...
To the edge of the world. I will be traveling to see the Grand Canyon this holiday. I plan to stand on the edge of that yawning chasm in the middle of the night and bring back whatever the cold Arizona night is willing to give up. My very best to you and yours and...
From the foggy head of Marin. I often reflect on how our photographic verb “exposure” is apt. A strict definition would have something to do with a shutter mechanism and an imaging sensor being exposed to photons. Yet “exposure” is so much more in photography. It is the means and the end—we gain exposure to...
