New Project: Obsidian Dome
In 2004 I moved with my wife and two young daughters from the suburbs of Washington, DC to the California coast, taking a month to travel in a winding, zig-zag path. We had a plan—each of us had made of…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
Category California
Raw Footage: Unprocessed Images from the Mojave Desert
When I make images there is usually a long lag before I share the picture. My recent Hotel Rooms, for example were photographed in September and October of last year, photoshopped in November (essentially correcting the geometry of the images),…
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…
I Feel Like Going Home
It’s a beautiful valley in an unexpected place, south of Elko, Nevada, deep in the desert, and with the mist hanging in the air it looks like some primordial morning, suggestive of a time before Man. But it’s not a…
The Freedom Shirts
We don’t like Walmarts in the part of the country where I live. We’re all good liberals. Walmart is a small-town-destroying monster, gobbling up family businesses, impoverishing its workers. There are no more little downtowns because of Walmarts, just big-box…
The Christmas Lights After Christmas
(This post is a part of a pair of posts on Christmas lights.) Christmas is over but the Christmas lights are still up and a walk around my neighborhood still offers up delightful photographs. For me, the attraction of these…
The Christmas Lights Before Christmas
(This post is a part of a pair of posts on Christmas lights.) I do a poor job here of differentiating between photographs I take which are snapshots, just like everyone else’s, and serious photographs, art photographs. Most every photograph…
The Cross In the Middle of Nowhere: iPhone 11 Pro Max vs the 12
(This post is part of an ongoing review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max.) From oral arguments John G. Roberts, Jr.: Counsel, this probably doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but I’m just kind of curious, why is this…
Glimmerglassed: The Fast Fuji 50 f/1.0 with Diffusion
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) If you hold it and shift it around so the light reflects off the glass, the surface of a Glimmerglass filter looks like it has…
The Owls of Montara Mountain
In March came the virus but also came the owls. Two fuzzy-white great horned owls. At first we thought they were alone in the nest near the ranger’s house. I happened to have a camera with me with a powerful…