Noir Is Where You Are
Here in Virginia, far from my favorite location—the San Francisco Bay Area—I feared I wouldn’t find any noir to shoot until I returned. But then a little voice whispered in […]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Shortcut to the Cutting Edge
This slim first novel is a hard-boiled egg on a slice of wry—a lip-smacking snack for crime gluttons like myself. If you’re hungry for a fresh voice working the demeaned […]
The Frypod
Here in the shadow of Afton Mountain the winds whip around and bite you in the neck like vampire bats. Even on ostensibly calm, spring-like days you’ll find a feral […]
Travel Light and Flash the USA
I try, I try. And I’ll be trying again in April when I head back to northern California. This will be my 14th cross-country drive and I’m determined to strobe […]
In advance of the long HOT summer…
Mark Hertsgaard’s HOT (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) just arrived and I’m starting to sweat it—despite the chilly weather outside. The book is rumored to be a scare-all survivor’s guide to climate […]
Got Mud?
When in Crozet… I hang my AP hat at the Mud House—a bohemian coffeehouse right out of the 1960s. Located in a renovated industrial building near the railroad tracks, it […]
hüfa! hüfa! hüfa!
If I had a dollar for every lens cap I’ve lost I’d be rich. I tried one of those tethered solutions, but it made me want to toss the cap […]
The Forest & The Trees
I teamed up with my journalist wife last summer and shot the photos for a feature in American Forests magazine on the endangered coho salmon in Marin County. The issue […]
Light Reading…
Three new books worth your attention if you want to bone up on lighting techniques. Newbies will jump into the wading pool with Digital Photography Lighting for Dummies by Dirk […]
A Sticky Problem Solved
I needed some tape. I was working on a layout and I wanted to have my photo of a barn door look like it it was taped to a piece […]
