Cahokia: Digging in the Dirt

There are eleven UNESCO World Heritage cultural sites located in the United States, five of which are American Indian sites. Mesa Verde is by far the most famous with its cliff-dwellings, Taos Pueblo and Chaco not far behind, though Chaco…

Revisiting 100 Days with Only A Few Days to Go

Earlier in 2016, months before the election, I was buying typewriters. Lots of typewriters. I had an idea, only partially formed, of using typewriters in a project and estimated then that I needed five or six different models to make…

Transitional Delights, Four Years later

(As we approach the election I thought it might be interesting to share a project I undertook during the transition after the 2016 presidential election. A slideshow of the images from Transitional Delights (2016-2017) follows the text, which is excerpted…

First Light With the Fuji 50mm f/1.0

(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) “First light” is a phrase from the astronomy community, usually referring to the first road-test image taken with a newly-built telescope, but it is also…

There It Is, the Fuji 50mm f/1.0

(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) If you were designing a lens what would you do? Ahead of you is a line of trees, planted in a straight row. They form…