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.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.—Ayrton Senna

Because softboxes were originally designed to emulate the soft, directional lighting that’s produced by window light they are usually rectangular but they don’t always have to be. They can have a shape that’s different than a traditional window light, such as emulating stage footlights.