If you read this blog on a regular basis you know I’m a big believer that great photo ops are available in your own backyard. I made the below infrared photograph just two miles from my previous home late one Sunday.

In addition to being, who I believe was the preeminent fashion and portrait photographer of his time, Avedon created “portraits that bared the souls of some of the most important and opaque figures in the world.” He was also a believer in simplicity.

One of the people I follow on Bookstigram was talking about “comfort books,” non-fiction books or books that when read make you feel good. One of my comfort books is Stephen King’s 11/22/63 but mostly it is any one of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe books, such as the ones I wrote about last month.

A few weeks Mary was going through some of our boxes (and boxes) of 4×6 prints that had been made over the years by such long lost names as Robert Waxman Camera and Seattle FilmWorks.

Before I moved to Daisy Hill and set up my current home studio much of my portrait and glamour photography was done on location. But living in Colorado sometimes the models, and the photographer too, just aren’t in the mood for stomping around in the cold weather and snow.