The Pinhole Project on a King County Metro Bus Shelter!
Over two years ago, the artists at the Sunny Arms, the building where I live and work, agreed to expose pinhole cameras out their windows for 90 days, from the Summer Solstice to the Fall Equinox. The results were so spectacular that everyone agreed to expose cameras...
In Search of Eadweard Muybridge
Last winter I read a most wonderful book about Eadweard Muybridge, the photographer known widely for his motion studies. The book, by Rebecca Solnit, is called River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. If you have not read it, I...
Tales of Multi-Hole Pinhole Cameras
The Pinhole Project continues with over 2000 images made in the last two and a half years. What I love about the Project is the willingness of the participants to try different cameras and wait for sometimes up to three months to see the image they have made. While...
Images from Nighttime at Blue Sky Gallery’s Viewing Drawers
I am happy to announce that ten images from my Nighttime Portfolio have been chosen for the Blue Sky Gallery's Pacific NW Viewing Drawers. The gallery is located in Portland, Oregon. These images are a part of the 2016 juried selections for the Viewing Drawers...
Out There: An Update
In June of 2014, the artists at the Sunny Arms, the building where I live and work in Seattle, started a long term pinhole photography project exposing cameras from our windows for 90 day periods. The only parameter was the cameras had to be pointing out at the view...
Thoughts on Lensless Photography
It's been two years since the Pinhole Project began and well over 2000 people have made an amazing array of long exposure images. Very, very inspiring. I intend to do a blog post on some of the images soon. Bear with me while I update the...
For Dad and His Love of Photography
My father passed away a month ago at the age of 95. An avid amateur photographer, he lived through so many changes with photography and the cameras he owned, from an old Kodak box camera to a small compact digital he used for the last years of his life. He loved to...
Retrieval
I am happy to announce the retrieval of two long exposure pinhole cameras. One was left out on a windy high place in the Olympic National Forest (for about eight months) and was intact albeit face down on the ground when found. The other, retrieved from under a...
Learning to See the Old Way
Since I am both a teacher of photography and a photographer who is still learning to see, I've been thinking about film and digital and how learning to see with each method is so different. Now some people believe that one cannot be taught how to see, that the...
The Trees!
I went car camping in the high country east and west of the mountains several times last summer. The National Forests are full of unused logging roads all open to the public. It's very rare to see another car or any people anywhere. We drove up and up through...