Once in awhile…

Occasionally I photograph the path and where it leads, the richness of rain subduing the extroversions of a sunny day. I’m looking for him on these walks, the person I know only through photographs. Is the camera a temporal divining rod?

Life…in simple terms

When my brain is being its defective self, my understanding of the world shows through…

The Dude

This is my constant companion, Lenny, also known as The Dude, I think he has a little bit of Jeff bridges happening in the middle image! He is, like most cats, a total goof….but handsome? Wow. He’s well travelled having been all the way to Mazatlan in Mexico and back, a long trip and a great story….later. The two images of his smily face…

Go big or go home?

A few years ago, well maybe 7 yrs, I built this 20″x 20″ view camera with the intention of making 16″x 20″ tintype portraits. Life intervened and here we are all these years later, resurrecting the monster as I dive head first into tintypes again. I’m working out a few necessary modifications to its design, simplifying the movements and redesigning the plate holder, hopefully…

Tintypes

Footnotes…..

In the great amalgam of capitalism……I was meant to be one.

Pitons.

: a spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).  Pitonographs? Can I coin a new word to describe some core images: this photograph was made in Toronto in 1987, in Wilket Creek Park at Leslie and Eglinton. Chaos softened by rain. Pitonographs are photographs, not necessarily good photographs, but important for…

Fingerprints.

Seeing is an energy-rich undertaking. My photographs …….fingerprints.

I am who I thought I might be….

  I have moments when I believe I have become the person I thought I wanted to be. I wrote a letter home maybe thirty years ago. I said I didn’t know if photography would be enough to sustain me. I let fear answer. I’m 56 and the fear is gone, nice to meet you Don Wilson.

Depression.

  Two faces of depression….

Harold does the “Bresson”.

The year is 2017, so far from now it seems like a parallel universe. Near Rimouski, QC, Harold channels his Cartier-Bresson, Sony in hand. Henri Cartier-Bresson made his photograph using an early Leica 35 mm camera. The atmosphere in Bresson’s image is amazing, a delicate, luminous drift. Great photographs can ask a lot of questions!! Frustratingly…..we have to make-up the narrative.

Breakfast for bread lovers.

Mifflin’s Tea Room, Bonavista Newfoundland. These are Tautons , bread dough that has been fried to a crispy, golden brown, yet remains soft and gooey on the inside! Add bacon, beans, toast, jam and coffee….heaven!