New Project: Hotel Rooms
Hotel rooms, at night in the dark, are alive with light. I made these images on the 10,000 mile cross-country tip I undertook this past fall. Each night, no matter how late I arrived at a hotel, no matter how…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
Darin Boville
Books On My Desk: Idaho!, Cartier-Bresson, Postcards, and Atget’s Paris
Photography books worth noting So Incredibly Idaho!: Seven Landscapes that Define the Gem State By Carlos Arnaldo SchwantesPublished in 1996 by the University of Idaho Press I may have purchased this book in Idaho, a state normally forgotten aside of…
Having Photographed
I’m back. It’s been a while. In November I arrived home in Montara, California after a ten-thousand-mile cross-country road trip which took me to twenty-four states spread over six and a half weeks. I drove through California into Nevada, then…
Book Review: Mandel’s Zone Eleven
The reviews of Mike Mandel’s new book, Zone Eleven, can make you want to write your own review. The photos in the book are made by Ansel Adams but sequenced by Mike Mandel long after Ansel’s passing. The sequencing provides…
San Pedro Mountain Road
Each Christmas I send members of my family a photograph. This year I made a set of six small images and wrote a text to accompany the photographs. When we moved to California in 2004, Lori and I looked all…
Chamberlin Rock, 2021
Most of my projects are made up of multiple images. This project contains just this one. Entitled, Chamberlin Rock, it is named after the geologist and once-upon-a-time president of the University of Wisconsin…but the photograph has nothing to do with…
What the Rock Leaves Behind
In deference to certain workplace environments, I’ve edited the quote (just below) to obscure an offensive word. Click on the link in the quote to see the word. The big boulder on Observatory hill, which is the largest of its…
Don’t Fear the Cliché
The standard advice to photographers is this: Avoid clichés. Don’t shoot what’s been shot so much before, don’t tread on the well-worn ground, turn your eye from that colorful sunset, delete those pretty clouds. Run away from clichés, they say.…
My Book, at a Library Near You
In the past year and a half, I’ve occasionally received e-mails that my book, Computational Photography, had been added to this or that library. In all that was going on–not just COVID but three cross-country road trips, and a busy…
Book Review: The First Fifty of Lee Friedlander’s Books
Redmond O’Hanlon’s basic writing strategy is to put himself in some remote and dangerous place and to write about how he overcame obstacle after obstacle to his very survival and found his way back. This is a strategy that will…