Helmut Newton — Subtlety, Elegance & Gone

Picture this. I am in pretty good health and I look a few months younger than I really…

Thinking & Then Shooting With A Fuji X-E1

Today, August 21, 2016 is the second anniversary of my first and still only digital…

Cheescake & Beefcake

In the late 50s my grandmother shared her Lomas de Chapultepec home with our distant relatives, the Mirandas. By then my…

Focus In The Darkroom

When I wrote what is below in 2009 I had a darkroom. Five months ago we moved into a small duplex in which I have no…

Chris Dahl a Nagging Art Director — From Complexity to Simplicity

Where have the Penns, Avedons, Sterns, Halsmans, & Newtons Gone?

The Smell of Paint in a Studio

As a commercial photographer in Vancouver since 1977 until the recent zombie apocalypse that brain-deaded…

Freckled Devon Cream

With few exceptions when I locate in some long forgotten box a photograph I took a long time ago I recognize it as my own…

The Sentient Sheep Baas for the last time

It was in 1957 that Brother Edwin Reggio, C.S.C. explained to us, in the Austin, Texas…