Month: October 2012

Which hair?

Sometimes I am ONLY interested in texture. Shape. Color. Mondrian. However, I am torn between the top full frame with just a wee bit of context , or the totally purified distilled crop below. What do you think?

Three Choices…

1 2 3 From time to time I will throw up here two or three frames where I just cannot make a decision and curious to what you think. I often shoot several frames of exactly or almost exactly the same moment. Tiny differences even though basically the same picture. Sketches.Which one? I have already …

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Process

My first home. On California st in San Francisco. I was born here in SF at exactly the same hour as Robert Capa was shooting Marines hitting the beach at Normandy June 6, 1944. It was the 5th in SF. Yup matched birth certificate with Capa records. Doesn’t really mean anything of course, but is …

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Pumpkin

Most of the time we are just hanging.  Taking joke pictures. Having a beer with old friends. My long time friend and printer Michael Courvoisier has joined us with a friend this evening as we park along Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Seems pretty obvious we will never get out of California, right? Well we …

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Nadia Sablin – Two Sisters

Nadia Sablin Two Sisters In 1952, my grandfather began to lose his vision as a result of being wounded in World War II. Wanting to return to the place where he grew up, he found an unoccupied hill in a village in the Leningrad region of Russia, close to his brothers, sisters and numerous cousins. …

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This is Joe and his pet…

parrot for 22 yrs Bogie…”It’s like having a kid that never grows up” Joe said. Joe lives in Big Sur and waits for the big waves and talks a lot with Bogie. #burnfamilydrive

Broken Foot

Emma has been in a cast for six weeks now. She broke her foot surfing and now uses the backyard hose as her shower to protect the cast….Her boyfriend Daniel, who carries a Medical Marijuana card, is a hot local surfer…

Your questions answered….

Paige Prince October 18, 2012 at 12:20 pm Edit Can you tell us the details on the portrait of Candy and if you used any flash or other light? I really like the flavor of it. Regarding this post. I always have loved painting with light. Any light. For many years I have used ordinary flashlights. The …

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