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Denny’s

If you are American, you know well from the above snap that I am most likely on an Interstate highway. And is there really anything more artful than a Denny’s breakfast menu? I collect menus. This is where we had breakfast and now we are trying like hell to get out of California but are …

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Snow

Well we finally hung a right and headed east and looking forward to finally finally finally getting out of CALIFORNIA the gold rush state. The state of dreams and broken dreams. THE American dream of movies of fantasies of the good life truly realized. So yea, the place held us. And still does. We couldn’t …

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Dogs

We just spent a great evening with Maddy, left, and Eli in their cozy home in Arcata in Humboldt County, California overlooking the sea. Candy kisses Ruka and Pickles snuggles Eli as a light rain outside only made the warmth inside all the merrier. Eventually we made our way to an RV park about ten …

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Bill

We welcomed Bill Kotsatos as an observing traveling workshop student and now totally integrated into our wild ride. He meets us here outside a bar where I shot for two nights, right next to our Ocean Beach classic motel, where we treated ourselves to two nights of luxury :) in San Francisco. We wanted to …

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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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