I tried to watch the State of the Union last night, I really did. On a certain level and given both the way things are (TWTA) and how the world really works (HTWRW), it should contain some subtextual hints about what we are in for (WWAIF). Don’t laugh. Lies can be very revealing (this was drummed into me when I lived with…
Photo #10 (Plus AlphaGo)
My reason for posting this one is how much I’ve missed surfing, both lately and going way back to when I left on this road trip. The two mistakes that led to my land-bound circumstances (I’m repeating myself again): The first being the biggie, selling my farm and leaving Pavones, the other the simple error of not towing a trailer…
Photo #9 (Plus Being There)
Here’s one more from yesterday. Thing about infrared photography that I like is that it works best when the sun is high, which is the opposite of ‘regular’ photography. It also gives interesting skies, which I’m very much into. Since the atmosphere does not absorb infrared, skies will usually come out black. (Notice how, towards the horizon, the sky gets…
Photo #8 (Spectrums)
There are two of you out there who make regular and very generous donations to my work. The most recent one goosed me to spend the bucks to have one of my old Canon T6s converted to infrared (which costs more than the camera is worth), and which opens up a whole new, surreal arena for imagery. This is one example.…
Photo #7
This one is a screen grab from my ‘The Art of the Boondock’ presentation from last year. Screen grabs are not going to be perfectly sharp; I couldn’t find the original jpeg file. The shot is from my first summer in Oregon, which I think was 2016 or so (since I don’t have the original, there is no metadata). While…
Photo #6
Late 1980s, this is at ‘The Stone House’ out east at Montauk, an early photo after I decided to get into photography. Can’t recall the girl’s name; she must be in her 50s now. I hope life has gone well for her. In this book I’m working on I’m trying to define photography rather than just describe it. Part of…
Photo #5
I’ve been posting (mostly on FB) so many funky-looking self portraits that I was going to avoid this one, which is from the day of my 75th birthday and not even as funky as several others. So, okay, here it is. Jesus, three-quarters of a century. Listening to Jordan Peterson and find that either I agree 100% with him or…
Photo #4
I posted a similar photo to this one last October; it had a different image on the Mac and a slightly different lighting set up. The image on the Mac is the title of the book I’m working on. While I’m here I though I’d send you to Randall Carlson’s podcast, that for me proves that there is nothing random…
Photo #3
The photo today is from my archives of the Fortune Ranch roundup in the Badlands of South Dakota a couple or so years ago. I like this one for its painterly, slightly surreal feel, a result of ‘dragging the shutter’ with a long exposure, around a quarter second, I think. You’ve probably seen it before. (It’s got some flaws, which…
Photo #2
Since I didn’t get anything yesterday: This photo is from back at my ‘home’ state of South Dakota, where on some days the sky can make you dizzy. Either that or I’m fucking with you. While I’m here, check out this interview with Robert Schoch. I’m pretty sure he is correct and Graham Hancock is wrong about the cause of…