Tuesday Thoughts: Try Keeping Resolutions Next Year

Tuesday Thoughts: Try Keeping Resolutions Next Year

The below photograph of Mary and I was a self portrait we made in the early 1980’s. It was scanned by ScanMyPhotos who offers a wonderfully seamless process for digitizing images that have been laying dormant for many years and helps bring them back to life....
Monochrome Monday: How I Made “Barn In Snow”

Monochrome Monday: How I Made “Barn In Snow”

In my Tuesday Thoughts post last month, “How I Made Walkabout,” I wrote about taking a daily three-mile walk when I lived in my former home and how I would walk past a farm and make photographs of it. Here’s a similar but snowy image made in the same...
Outdoor Glamour Portraits: Color vs. Black & White

Outdoor Glamour Portraits: Color vs. Black & White

Oscar Wilde visited North America in 1882 for a lecture tour. Shortly after arriving in New York he had a series of portraits made that you can see on Oscar Wilde in America. I once stayed in the Cadogan Hotel in London down the hall from room 118 where he famously...
Joe’s Movie Club: Best Movies I Watched in 2024

Joe’s Movie Club: Best Movies I Watched in 2024

Disclaimer: The movies that I’m talking about in today’s “best of” post are not films on physical media that were released during 2024. Some were but most weren’t. Instead you’ll find a few films that I enjoyed most this year. The takeaway from this disclaimer...