First Owlscape
Starting last spring I began a project to photograph a family of owls that live near my house on Montara Mountain. I had photographed them before, in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic but those were just fun shots,…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
New Project: Random Frame (The Killing)
A year and a half ago I had an idea for a video that would take a movie—key movies that were important to me, especially when I was younger—and would scramble the frames, playing back the movie now with the…
Books On My Desk: Robert Adams’ Photographs (not in the way you think I mean) and Bruce Conner’s Attic
Books On My Desk is written so I can get the books off of my desk. Companion to The Robert and Kerstin Adams Photography Collection At the Denver Art MuseumPublished by the Denver Art Museum in 2022 This is an…
Raw Footage: Beach Bluffs
Raw Footage posts look at new and developing projects Over the twenty years I’ve lived in my small, unincorporated town on the California coast, I’ve made many projects where the town, or some aspect of it, is the subject. I’ve…
New Project: San Pedro Mountain Road (again)
A little over a year ago I posted a series of six images: a small portfolio of prints I had given to family as gifts over the holidays. The images were of trees, and I shared also here the story…
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…
Books On My Desk: Art’s (Proletarian) Struggle and the Oldest American Book
I get knocked down, but I get up again. Just up from a multi-day bout of food poisoning (not recommended) followed by a multi-day internet outage due to the wind bringing down all manner of trees in our little seaside…
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,…
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),…
Books On My Desk: Walker Evans, Walker Evans (again), Altered Landscapes, and James Fee
On my extensive Fall trip I purchased a used book or two—well, ok, I purchased so many I was forced to ship boxes of them home to make room in the FJ Cruiser for me and my camera gear. Here…