Looking Around In Infrared

When I received my converted Fuji XT3 back at Christmas, transformed into an infrared camera, the first thing I did was to walk around the neighborhood with it looking at the world in this new light. What first strikes you, looking through through the viewfinder, are the classic telltale signs…

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A New Book of My Old Essays

When the first copies of my photobook, Computational Photography, arrived in January of 2020 I was so utterly pleased with it. I had worked on it with designer Bob Aufuldish for over a year and instead of being what I would have guessed a normal book deign and production process…

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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 tired, I spent the first forty-five minutes before I unpacked…

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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 up into Yellowstone, then down to Denver, then across the…

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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 the real content of the book, the way one photo…

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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 over the area south of San Francisco for a place…

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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 him. Instead, the image touches on the changing nature of…

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