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Studies in Vagueness

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Faces in Food

April 23, 2010 Recent Faves

If I could find more faces in food, this would be a regular series.

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You Will Study the Wisdom of the Past

April 11, 2010 Studies in Vagueness

“Cardozo’s words, while inspiring, were not inspiring enough to inject any vigor into the pathetic, book reading blob I have become, but they were enough to remind me of something I’ve wondered before . . .”

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Brunswick!

March 23, 2010 Studies in Vagueness

Or, for “The King of Them All” . . . Roto Grip! I regularly shoot images of bay and beach flotsam, documenting the end result of our trashy habits. So, when I saw this bowling ball on a beach in Alameda, it was going to be just that — a quick documentation of San Francisco [...]

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Studies in Vagueness: Droplets

March 3, 2010 Photography

This might be what I love most about my camera: it makes something interesting out of the most banal objects. Here’s where I started . . . with a lonely and neglected patio table getting pummeled by hail. Finding the Angle That’s obviously a mundane shot. Just like any written piece, a photo should tell [...]

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50 Ways to Shoot A Tennis Ball

February 27, 2010 Photography

“The depressing thing about tennis is, no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.” ~ Mitch Hedberg Rubber + Adhesive + Felt + 12psi = the following photo gallery. Rain puddles and tennis are comfort associations for me. Spring was about outdoor tennis in the Northwest . . . [...]

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Studies in Vagueness: Don’t Play With Your Food

October 10, 2009 Food

I grew up with parents scarred by World War II, so you can imagine the [deserved] admonitions we got with respect to wasting food. I used to cringe when Letterman dropped watermelons off New York city rooftops. Frozen turkey bowling . . . well that one completely busted my little paradigm. But food, in all [...]

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Studies in Vagueness: The Mock Snail

August 20, 2009 Mollusks

This title, The Mock Snail caused the tiniest bit of confusion on Flickr. He’s a real snail. It’s just that the psychedelic tone rendered by my Raynox 150 lens inspired a Lewis Carroll reference.

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Studies in Vagueness: Halogen Shadows

August 18, 2009 Photography

Saul’s Deli in Berkeley is an undeniable fave. One of the few things Hugh and I miss from our Los Angeles existence is the old neighborhood deli — with its naugahyde booths and rough-and-tumble wait staff. Saul’s is a bit more refined in its Gourmet Ghetto enclave. But it has a deli pedigree stretching back [...]

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Studies in Vagueness: Everyday Translucence

July 24, 2009 Edibles

I was filling up the compost pail and decided the items on my fridge deserved a photographic tribute for the good works they do.

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