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...
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...
A light show on Marin’s shoulder. My sister-in-law and her husband visited this past month and, as they needed a ride to the airport and I wanted to see sunrise over the clouds, we ascended the ridge above Spencer Battery wet and weary. The crescent moon was supposed to be visible over the city just...
From the scrublands to the strand. A narrow shoal is all that separates Rodeo Lagoon and the ruins of a former army post from the frigid fingers of the California Current. Upon that shoal the rhythm of the headlands rests a beat and Marin’s buttresses crumble and sink into the strand. Beautiful though the fog-wreathed...
