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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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