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A Boundary of Decency
The 21st century is full of new words that baffle me, make me laugh. There are expressions that I dislike such as the constant use by CNN…
alexwh
19 hrs ago
Whose Whom?
Whose Whom?
Yuliya and Jo-Ann are friends. One is a professional dominatrix. I asked them to come to my studio with the idea that we would make viewers…
alexwh
20 hrs ago
Jo-Ann & My Hollywood Scoop Light
Jo-Ann & My Hollywood Scoop Light
I have this very large light that I call my Hollywood scoop light. It may have been used as such a thing many years ago. It has a huge…
alexwh
20 hrs ago
Darwin’s Cardoon
Darwin’s Cardoon
In our former Athlone Street corner garden my Rosemary grew several Cyanara cardunculus. These stately (8 to 9 ft tall) thistle-like plants…
alexwh
21 hrs ago
A Photographer & His Subject
A Photographer & His Subject
Much has been written about the high fashion model’s dependency on being told that they are beautiful and the best. They watch their weight…
alexwh
3 days ago
It Skinned My Eyes
It Skinned My Eyes
One day I saw a painting by Matisse, a reproduction. I saw it because of the chaps who were laughing and called me over. It gave me the…
alexwh
5 days ago
That Unkind Cut — II
That Unkind Cut — II
I have stressed in these blogs that whenever I am faced with a lovely landscape I control myself and buy a postcard. My days of street…
alexwh
Apr 5
Lauren & My Sailor Whites
Lauren & My Sailor Whites
One of the definite advantages about being a father and grandfather is that it has enabled me to have many years of closeness with young…
alexwh
Apr 5
My Kitsilano (Vancouver ) Darkroom & Nicole
My Kitsilano (Vancouver ) Darkroom & Nicole
In 1979, my darkroom in Arboledas, Estado de México was the bathroom in what would have been the room for a live-in housekeeper. In the…
alexwh
Apr 5
A Heart of Jade — Corazón de Piedra Verde
A Heart of Jade — Corazón de Piedra Verde
Salvador de Madariaga’s Corazón de Piedra Verde (1942), published in English in the 60s as The Heart of Jade was the first novel I remember…
alexwh
Apr 5
A Treasure Chest
A Treasure Chest
My profession as a photographer has rarely coincided with my interest in gardening.
alexwh
Apr 3
Four & One — An Alexandria Quartet
Four & One — An Alexandria Quartet
In 1957 I purchased a Pentacon-F single lens reflex with a Tessar F-2.8 lens. At the time there was a burning argument between conservative…
alexwh
Mar 28
A Reversal Of Fortune — A New Beginning
A Reversal Of Fortune — A New Beginning
Yesterday using a possibly extinct photographic apparatus called a changing bag I successfully fed two Unicolour reels with two rolls of…
alexwh
Mar 27
An Unjustifiable Easter Monday Resolve
An Unjustifiable Easter Monday Resolve
The concept of Christ rising from the dead which some would define as a form of rebirth gives many of those who celebrate Easter a valid…
alexwh
Mar 27
Los Zapatos de Charol
Los Zapatos de Charol
Not all tangos are just tangos. Some have an almost samba rythm and are called candombe. My Wikipedia says of the candombe: Candombe is…
alexwh
Mar 26
By Stretch of Limb or Stir of Lid
By Stretch of Limb or Stir of Lid
Madeleine Morris
alexwh
Mar 26
Salem & Hosta montana ‘Aureomarginata’
Salem & Hosta montana ‘Aureomarginata’
Until I sort of transferred my interest to old roses I was known in Vancouver as the Hosta Man. I must have amassed around 400 of them. In…
alexwh
Mar 25
Cherry Pink & Hosta Blue
Cherry Pink & Hosta Blue
With Spring here and I as I look out from my oficina window onto the little garden I grieve at plants lost but happy to see some plants…
alexwh
Mar 25
Tinas — Bañaderas — Bathtubs — Full Immersion
Tinas — Bañaderas — Bathtubs — Full Immersion
“I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot bath. I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up…
alexwh
Mar 24
A Tall Glass Of Ice-Cold Horchata
A Tall Glass Of Ice-Cold Horchata
Such is the world we live in that now men (those who need inspiration) cannot have a muse and much less call a woman one.
alexwh
Mar 23
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