Much was changing in the village of Antonchico as it entered the last two decades of the nineteenth century. By then, the town boasted of...

Two people gaze at a photograph--an open door to an empty room, a pair of shoes under the corner of an iron bedstead, a stack of...

My grandson's first birthday is coming up, and I thought, there isn't anything that children like more than animals and bright colors....

There is a mission church at the edge of the village, on the road to the main highway almost dead center between Vaughn and Santa Rosa....

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." Vincent van Gogh

"Every moment is a window on all time." Thomas Wolfe As I prepare for my next artist in residence experience, I can't help but put it...

The building stands alone now, surrounded by a barbed wire fence from which even the laziest of sheep could escape. Beyond it the pasture...

Tim Carpenter says, in his essay "To Photograph is to Learn How to Die, that intervention of the sort described by Flannery O'Connor as...

"The camera is in some ways a sketchbook drawn in time and space, and it is also an admirable instrument that seizes life just as it...

I don't believe in coincidence. A month ago I started an on-line workshop called Photography to Get to Know Yourself. I thought this...

"If solitude exists, and I don't know if it does, one should certainly have the right to dream of it occasionally as paradise." (Albert...

Knowledge and courage, like pearls cast before swine, should not be wasted on those who cannot or will not appreciate it. In my book, The...

New York City, May 2013 In 1905, George Santayana published the first volume of his The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress. In...

Homosassa, Florida, July 2021 In 2014, I visited the Orchard House, not for the first time but with a different perspective. For me, this...

Arches have been called the symbols of strength, openness, thresholds between worlds. I've been thinking about arches for recently,...

Virginia Woolf had a room of her own. Vladimir Nabokov said "If I do not demand an ivory tower it is because I am quite happy in my...

I collect quotations. I started doing it when I was working--I had a wipe board on the door of my office and I'd post a new quote...

In his novel, Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald said "the border between life and death is less impermeable than we commonly think." (p283) This is...

Vladimir Nabokov said "For someone who knows how to look, everyday existence is as full of revelations and delights as it was to the eyes...

"I have considered the eyes of the world for so long that I think it is time I had a little holiday from them. If one is not to please...