My First Camera

Writing these thoughts about how I am teaching my kids photography causes me to pause and ask myself–How did I learn photography? I don’t know if that is a story worth telling but I do want to mention the very…

How to Teach Kids Photography, Part Two

In the first installment of this series, I shared a few thoughts on how to teach kids photography–ideas that I tried out with some success with my own daughters. To organize my thoughts in order to share them with you…

The Passage

My video, The Passage, although created for personal reasons, can be seen as a metaphor for any or all of the transitions we are experiencing now, whether that transition is political or emotional, on a large social scale or on…

The Scam Caller’s Art

Scam callers have upped their game. There’s a person I know who works for an IT company we shall not name. He works in security. Once upon a time we were talking about junk mail and his theory was that…

Zuckerberg Dreams

Say you were dumb, I mean really dumb, computer dumb, literally dumb as a rock, albeit one with some lines scratched into it. And say I showed you ten pictures of dogs–and I told you they were all dogs–and ten…

How to Teach Kids Photography, Part One

Originally published on some long-ago blog of mine on November 9, 2011, updated slightly here. There’s a sort of mythology growing in some quarters that once-upon-a-time cameras required knowledge of the craft of photography to use. That you had to…

Albrecht Dürer was a Photographer

(This is part of series looking back at posts I wrote a decade ago. First published on November 4, 2011.)  If Albrecht Dürer were alive today he would be a photographer. I’m sure of it. I’ve been a fan of…

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…