18 March, 2025
Remembering an old, broken camera.
More than a decade ago, and I remember this as though it were yesterday, I was sitting in a North London pub waiting for my girlfriend to arrive. I had been taking photos with d...
7 March, 2025
Marilyn Monroe in Banff – A Zero Shot Story
This story is for all the great photos we miss when we don’t have our cameras with us… Marilyn Monroe had an outsize presence in my childhood growing up in Pittsburg...
At some point in life, everyone needs a “Jim.” A Jim is someone who comes along during that crucial time (generally your early-20s), when you start to believe you have everythin...
24 February, 2025
To Do or To Own? (or the Photographer’s Dilemma)
To Own or To Do is the photographer’s version of Erich Fromm’s dilemma posed in his famous essay, ‘To Have or to Be’. I don’t have the authority to...
8 February, 2025
Don’t Take It So Seriously – Putting the Funny Back Into Photography
“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” — E. B. White If you read the comments on YouTube, Facebook or Instag...
1 February, 2025
Imago Absentia – A Portrait of the Absent
To photographers, the word portraiture conjures up an image of a human subject posing for a photograph. But what if the person is no longer with us and cannot be photographed? W...
23 January, 2025
Not Resolutions, but 15 Ideas to Get Out of a Rut in 2025
I had a bit of a slump in 2024 in terms of both writing and photography and I want to dig out of that lull. From past experience, I realize broadcasting some resolutions doesn&#...
21 January, 2025
Heads or Tails? My Camera Choice for 2025
Having sketched out the reasons for my decision to commit to just one camera for the New Year in a previous post, I’ll now walk through the various contenders and reveal m...