Out of the Shoebox Watch your 6 Technically, there's nothing right in this photo. Spiritually, there's nothing wrong in this photo. Hill Dogs, Capitol Hill, Seattle, October 2017.
Out of the Shoebox Out of the Shoebox: Pumpkin and Red "Yea, I remember that like it was yesterday. Ol' Pumpkin and Red said enough's enough. Quit their jobs and lit out for the open road. Last postcard we got was from Bratislava. No idea where that is, but I don't think they drove there.
Photojournalism Beware the ides of March This post won't live up to that title. I had my reasons, though. It is March, I'm anxious about the competing trajectories of COVID variants vs. vaccinations (that's a lot of v's...I think I prefer vees), and I'm going
On the Streets On the Streets: Capitol Hill I still can't believe it's March. Dear five regular visitors, you might get tired of hearing me say this - it's difficult to comprehend that we've been at this pandemic for about a year. Longer, technically, but I think it was late
Out of the Shoebox Out of the Shoebox: Tortas Condesa Spammy of late. I warned you. I like to create fake internet profiles and write reviews for this blog. "...I keep reading it because I don't know how to delete things in my RSS feed." "...totally unpredictable...you literally never know what's coming
Out of the Shoebox Out of the Shoebox: Ice Cream I'm getting a little spammy again, which only reinforces the obvious - my site hasn't got a lot of focus. I try to remember to always turn off the "notify people by email" option, but I'm sure I've forgotten a
On the Streets The Remains of the Day I think boycotts are generally pretty dumb. They're ineffective when they involve a single dude outside the unicorn demographic (AKA old and tragically unhip) who doesn't spend a lot of money on tangible goods. Doesn't matter. I'm never spending another dime on
Out of the Shoebox The Sound and the Fury I hope you had a chance to get outside this morning; Seattle served up a beautiful start to the day. I caught the Café Argento crew as they were opening. Breakfast sandwich, please. And a coffee. And a bag of coffee beans. I haven't mentioned COVID in a
Out of the Shoebox Out of the Shoebox: Merce Lemon I used to go to Joe Bar daily. Man, that's a good coffee shop. That's where I met Merce. If you own a coffee shop, she's one of those people you want to hire. Always had time to talk to everyone. I eavesdropped on
On the Streets Helping out in the neighborhood The weather really has been whacky in Seattle. I love it. Today was another day of hail. That'd pretty much be my entry for a Poor Richard's Almanac - today was another day of hail. But bear with my amateurish weather blog. You can be out
Out of the Shoebox Have I told you... ...how much I hate tech? Let's say that a lot of us have a shot at 70 years on this space-traveling rock. To be alive in 2021, how many moments of our lives are spent trying to get these cursed machines to work? (I know what you'
Out of the Shoebox Out of the Shoebox: Dick's, September 2017 Slow, very slow, progress through the catalog. I don't think it's smart to talk about projects. Better to finish them and then talk about them. Who knows if you'll actually finish the project. But my audience is small, I'll risk it. I&
On the Streets All Hail Capitol Hill What news from the Egg Wars? All mediocre on the Omelette Front. No excuses. I was simultaneously lazy and hasty. A not great omelette. But it did the trick. Weird to think that I used to hate omelettes. But it was because they were the overcooked, overstuffed omelettes. Weird ham
On the Streets City Symphonies It usually pays to talk to people. I was in Volunteer Park a while ago. I'm not exactly sure when. A few days ago, a year ago? I saw a man shooting with what I thought was some sort of modified Hasselblad. Turns out it was a Bolex
On the Streets On the Streets: U-Turn I was just proof-reading a long post that was critical of a few of our elected officials. But man, I've been carrying around some weird negative energy today. I was about to hit publish when I realized that I was just contributing to the negativity. I don'
Out of the Shoebox This Camper is Not Happy Warning, I am (was...wrote this the other day...blog time is weird) in a foul mood. And you know what, before I continue, I should go do some yoga for a bit. Come back in 20. Ok, I'm back, and part of the above was a lie.
On the Streets Odysseus wouldn't have made it The sirens started early today and they did not let up. I took the eggs out of the fridge to make a late breakfast when I noticed the sirens ramping up. It got to the point that I thought every fire truck and ambulance in the city must be converging
On the Streets We needed that Seattle's rain has reclaimed its time, but the snow had its say. I'm sorry to see it go, but now I hope the rain and temperature will work together to banish the ice. I could have easily stayed in all day. I had some skills in
shoulda been a tweet Snowed in I really haven't got an excuse for not doing a deep clean of the apartment today. It looks snowy and cold out. I may try to make it over to Volunteer Park - it's not often that you see it blanketed in snow. I just finished
On the Streets On the Streets: Snow day Seattle got a snow day. It was met with unbridled joy. with the usual exceptions. (Sorry, bus drivers. I saw some clips of the spin outs.) The kids in my neighborhood are making use of every moment. I can hear them laughing outside my window. I saw lots of dads/
Out of the Shoebox Out of the Shoebox: Black Lives Matter It's always strange going back through a photo archive. I have over 100k photos in the archive, and most of them suck. But there are pleasant re-visited surprises. There are a lot of I don't remember taking that. There are a lot of photographers who remember
Out of the Shoebox Out of the Shoebox: The Comet I'm sorry, I'm really really sorry. The five people who read this blog are rolling their eyes. Ugh, another Comet photo. Really, I am sorry. That corner is photo kryptonite for me. And I'm years away from getting a super photo of it. The
shoulda been a tweet Shoulda been a tweet: Hello darkness my old friend Just sitting here in the dark on Capitol Hill. TB and J - did you lose power?
On the Streets On the Streets and On the Trails: Seattle I'm still working through some I hate tech woes following the simultaneous Mac OS upgrade and battery meltdown. Nothing major, but distracting. I'll keep this short because I've forgotten most of the wildly entertaining anecdotes I intended to mention here. (Note: I lied. Not