I Hate the Word Selfie
Why is the word selfie so distasteful to me? I am not a stranger to the self portrait; I have made them regularly since 1978. But what is the difference between a selfie and a self-portrait? The selfie is a quickie, in this quick world of ours. It is a...
The Pinhole Project: An Update
The Pinhole Project will reach five hundred images in the next few weeks and at an average exposure of three weeks each, that is a lot of light and time captured in these little metal cans on pieces of black and white enlarging paper over the last year and a half. ...
Seven hour Pinhole Exposure/Tomales, California
On the trip to the Lost Coast last August I made some exposures with my 4 x 5 pinhole camera on color negative film. I started the exposure as soon as it was mostly dark and ended it (except for a few late wakeups) as the sun rose, about seven hours. Because I had...
An Anonymous Pinhole Image: A Possible Answer
About four months ago, I posted an anonymous pinhole both on this website and on Facebook. I had received the camera in the mail, with no note, no return address, no postmark. Just a brilliant orange and cyan landscape, foreign to me, mysterious. The stamps had...
The Night Class Goes to South Park
Last night we went to the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, wandering through the boatyards and down to the river. We shot the bridge under construction, talked with the locals, gaped at the huge boats out of water. It was a beautiful warm night, even a few stars...
Shooting the Night
I am teaching a night class that started last Friday. It was a wonderful night free of the threatened downpour. We meandered from South Sodo to Georgetown, shooting along the way, actually only covering a small area. We are posting images to a flickr. group and you...
The Pinhole Project Archive Goes Live
After a summer of working on the Archive, getting rid of dust and scratches and the ugly white line made by the scanner, the new and improved Archive of images is alive and well and back up on this website. Because of the growing size of the Archive, it is linked to...
From the Prosper Road: A Pinhole Moment
Yesterday was a wonderful day. I received my 4 x 5 color negatives from Citizens Photo in Portland (http://www.citizensphoto.com/), the only place in the Northwest that will develop this film. Thank you Citizen's Photo, you did a great job. Two weeks ago, I drove...
Red Hook Revisited
Last summer I spent two weeks in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn, Red Hook and shot steadily every day. My first thought was that I would rephotograph my favorite images from the 1980's. The problem was that the neighborhood had changed so much that I could not find...
Paradise is a Road Trip
I took a week and flew to San Francisco and then drove up to the Lost Coast with a friend, a master of the road trip. We hid two pinholes on the Coast and if they survive for six months, they will need to be retrieved and scanned. If found accidentally, I left a...