The focal length of a taxi window…
While in an big city, I would be quite remiss if I didn’t get out there and do a little photography. And I guess I can’t articulate it well enough.…
Sections of sky…
Spin a globe. On the average schoolhouse globe, the area of sky that you can see at any given time is much smaller than the dot marking whatever city you…
Going out with ME…
And, yes, that’s referring to the Leica M-E (Type 220)… I’m not really a newcomer to Leica. I’ve had a Leica M4-P since 2006 and an M8 since 2010. So…
When a photojournalist plays wedding photographer…
It happens every once in a while… like here and here. And quite a number of engagement photos like this. But they tend to have a “photojournalist” skew… If anyone is…
The heart of the street…
Street photography where street photography took its first steps… Only because there are a bazillion images of Paris, it makes street photography all the more unusual. . . . It…
How to score in boxing…
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” ~Pierre de Coubertin Anybody know…
Octoporto Rafti…
I only lived there a few months, but returning to the little bay town southeast of Athens feels like returning to a childhood home. I’m the luckiest guy in the…
Oaths and wind…
I do a few weddings a year. Weddings, engagements, bridal things… …but as posed as weddings tend to be, my favorites are the moments of silence between the poses. Between…
The land with the jealous trees…
It is easy to look at the shanty towns and slums around Port-au-Prince as a highly disorganized mess of buildings built haphazardly on the slopes of otherwise un-inhabitable areas. These…
Climbing back out…
The area around Mount Organise and Carice is a bowl of land. There are hills, but it is generally a plateau up around 1000 meters above sea level. To escape…
Coffee, coffins, and context…
Patching a tire in Haiti. D said once, after having experienced the joys of bathing in a river: “Everything just takes so much longer to do here.” But close to…
Return to Hispaniola…
Lovely day for a drive across Hispaniola. A drive from Santo Domingo to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is bizarre how different these two countries are. They share a border, yet their…