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Sometimes Time Stands Still

5 years ago 3 min read night photography flora mountain view portraits tools water fire street photography

Sometimes it seems like firefighters have three main speeds: urgent, slow-but-deliberate, and still-life. While visiting the home of a friend, it was the slow but deliberate advance of two trucks, with lights flashing

Doc Diaries: On Reflection

6 years ago 6 min read prints mountain view monochrome Google MIT equipment gear studio night photography portraits technique deep thoughts travel

There have been a great many photographers who loved being behind the camera, but who were hesitant to have their own pictures taken. For whatever reason, I have never been that way. And

Life, Death, and Lack of Closure: The perpetual struggle of the inadvertent historian

8 years ago 6 min read metapost mountain view MIT aircraft epic adventure concerts construction fire in memoriam deep thoughts travel Oakland

ForewordThis post is serious. These thoughts and feelings have haunted me for at least the last 5 years, and I've meant to discuss them, but haven't yet, because it's difficult. It's difficult in

Portraits In Situ (part 1)

9 years ago 2 min read cars mountain view portraits Google deep thoughts san jose travel san francisco self-portraits

"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in

Five Day B&W Challenge: Day 1

10 years ago 3 min read mountain view monochrome Google street photography

Two friends tagged me for the Five Day B&W Challenge at about the same time. I'm going to participate, but it's going to be on my own rules. The canonical rules