"Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing." — Susan Sontag "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust "Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes." People use them all the time, leaving their energy and...

A visual metaphor on wandering, self expression, a life— and life’s “work in progress,” retraced footsteps, blurred escapes…Street stains and shadows— “I was a painter before, and it was always about the frame, of course. But within this frame (photography), somehow, because of movement, because of things passing through the frame, it seemed to have a life bigger than the actual frame itself.”— Steve Mcqueen Interview in Hunger, Criterion (2010).

Composition in visual art contains mathematical components, as does music. The first time I heard the term Visual Acoustics , I was immediately intrigued. Julias Schulman, a modernist architectural photographer from the late 20th century coined the term. His architectural photographs featured very apparent rhythmic symmetry which honored the attention to detail and intentions of builders and designers. In this way the subject was not only authentically captured, but the creator-- also remembered. When performing music, a musician's eye scans a sheet of music searching for notes to...

From a summer cookout pre pandemic, two neighbors sharing food in the fading evening light. 

A reporter I once knew had this quote in her email signature,“Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.” DOROTHY THOMPSON I'm visually channeling the Elkhorn Slough aesthetic from Michael Kenna in Tulare in this image and it really reminds me of the work journalists are called to do in their service to the public which often entails thanklessness, low pay, a commitment to shining a light on issues that are pertinent to the public... all of this without the promise of a public pension. The least we can do is pay for the news, good...

“The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.” - Richard Kalvar For me,  taking a photo is the last part of making a photo. What do I mean by that? In studying photography, there are two veins I have found most interesting. The first  is simply to study the various photographic genres and the photographers who made notable contributions in those genres; the second is to pay close attention to how those same photographers began their careers, what their early work was informed by, and...