Photographs. Sort of.

Tag: Making Art

  • Kodak Aero-Ektar 305mm, f2.5

    A few years ago I was given this lens, an Eastman Kodak made Aero-Ektar 305mm, f2.5. It was an oddity that had arrived at the previous owner by gift as well, which after not finding a purpose for it, deeded it to me. I guess that gift was like being told: you are the winner…

  • Baseline Road – line on ground.

    Baseline Road – line on ground.

      My first walk on Baseline Road, Boulder Colorado. There are about a thousand things to say about what I’d like to do, what I’d like to photograph, what I think I’m photographing, and what I expect to photograph (none of the preceding are actually the same thing). In the meantime – those thousand things…

  • re place ment

    re place ment

    What does it mean “to know a place”. There is not a where you may go to find it. There is not a who to ask, or a when to look. There is no how to do or hold it. Nothing that can be sought and found out there, is Place. Yet it is yours,…

  • Ends and Means

    Ends and Means

    I’d like not to tell you, but to show you. It is so much more visceral that way. The condition of the place – I wonder in what way is the character of the place like that of the man who makes of it his own home – are they reflections? Can they be otherwise?…

  • To Love, To Day, ne’er comes To Morrow.

    One of the most precious things about living in Tucson, for us, is the Santa Catalina Mountains. The image below, by William Lesch, gets some of their grandeur across. About half way into our hour-long drive to the trail-head, just as we are about to leave Tucson and begin climbing, the view of the mountain…