With pundits like these… On the topic of a recent photoblogger’s critique of the Flickr redesign, I concluded an email exchange with a friend by saying I was disappointed with “[the pundits] with the time to write about photography and with the audience to listen. They don’t think very deeply. And if that sounds harsh,...
Nighttime on the Merced Three more from Valley View. Summer ended slowly in Yosemite Valley this year. Early October found us along the shores of the Merced, grateful for the cool evening brought and basking in the silver and gold of a full moon. The full-throated rush of the springtime Merced had faded to a...
The breath of the Pacific I linked up with a fellow photographer from Chicago to make a few images of the bridge. Check out some of Chance’s work here. Hot weather in the Bay Area this weekend meant a spectacular marine layer over the bridge. I had intended to make Marshall Beach but, as I...
I last posted about the incredible light show atop Marin and promised photographs of the sunrise—and here they are! We climbed the dirt path through fragrant scrubland in near darkness, short of breath and mistaking the higher ridge lines for cloud banks. I hoped to see the upper reaches of the city and the Golden...
A sense of place. Today’s post is the third and final installment on the University of Chicago photography workshop I ran in May. Two earlier posts covered the basics of what I produced and what I tried to teach the 12 students I had with me. Today’s entry is all about what those fellow photographers...
