When Part 2 of this three-part series went online, reader Stephen Meese made a comment that said it all:
"Wait, you experimented with a different film format, AND shot without...
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12 April, 2023
The Eyes of Venice (a One-Shot Mystery Story)
Few people, I think, would doubt Venice’s beauty. But when Kate and I visited just before Covid closed Italy in 2019, I also noticed a bit of the city’s darker side.
As we st...
29 March, 2023
Fourteen Years in the Making! (A One-Shot Story)
Between 1998 and 2012, Kate and I visited Rome four times. And one of her priorities was always to see the inside of the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone on the Piazza Navona.
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She was a living painting hanging above a gloomy stone staircase. A bit of sexual theater.
This anonymous sex worker, erotic dancer, or model earned her daily bread quietly c...
Memories are weird. Some fly out of one's head and into oblivion as quickly as they form. Some stay longer, but frequently morph with the years. Others remain burned-in for a li...
15 March, 2023
The Jumping Bird (A One-Shot Story) – By Dave Powell
In May 2020, word went out that gangs of Baltimore Orioles had invaded Massachusetts. Fresh citrus is one of the birds’ favorite treats, and as you see, I strung a chunk of mand...
14 March, 2023
5(+5) Digital-IR Frames from a Roving CoolPix 990 in Paris
Before Kate and I went to Paris in 2010, a good friend visited one of my digital-infrared exhibits and-- the following Christmas-- gave me a Nikon CoolPix 990 that he’d converte...
8 March, 2023
Money from Mars (A One-Shot Story)
Obviously, this is a “One Nundred Minapools” monetary note from the “Republic of Mars.” It bears a beautifully wrought likeness of the planet’s “Capable Leader” (in a typically ...