BOXX GALLERY IN APRIL
As Boxx continues its journey of bringing artists' work to our Valley, this next show is a fabulous example of two sensitive and nuanced photographers at work. Jane Alynn's black…
LOOKING BACK
It’s Throwback Thursday! The photograph above is a very early zone plate image. This week, in the process of updating my website’s ABOUT page, I recalled my beginnings with black…
THE NATURE OF CLOUDS
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (1841) Morning came. I stumbled into the dawn. It was an…
ROAD TRIP!
Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass
GONE FISHING
Sometimes doing creative work reminds me of fishing. You throw in a line, watch it float down the river, and then reel it in, empty. Repeat, again and again. At…
WHAT IS YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC VISION? — PART TWO
When you make an image, is it of what’s in front of the camera or what’s four inches behind it?” ~ Dewitt Jones I read this story long ago in…
GRATITUDE
Yesterday I spent the greater part of the day in Seattle. This nearly two-hour traffic-jammed trip can be tense and tedious. Usually, I prefer to take the bus. But…
Spring, Vows, and Happiness
Spring Vow We will love like dogwood. Kiss like cranes. Die like moths. I promise. © 2007, Larissa Shmailo Heart, Alabama Hills, California This year, the vernal equinox, the…
