late spring thoughts

all of the bugs seem to have come alive in one moment. the trees are creaking with a new song. we are here they say. sunlight slips through their branches to say spring shall leave and the time of living the summer time is here. I walk through the campus and put on my photo eyes. suddenly all is moving as a potential photograph. they are not just branches anymore, but abstract potential. I wish to stop and savor this moment.

Late night thoughts

Hello - just here cropping photographs and working on Geir's book. It is an amazing process - but tiring on many levels.

Geir will be talking at Kebble and Shuchat on June 2nd. Download it HERE

Ilford will be supporting the continuation of traditional silver printing and Geir with Gitta (Brigitte Carnochan ) will adding to the conversation. Should be interesting.

I just want time to work on the book and have a few minutes of normal life! hmmm....what IS normal?

(This is a photograph of us at the Mumm Winery show organized by Ansel Adams Gallery. Just a random photo in the late night - example of normal? hmmm...)

public or semi-public thoughts?

Will I publish this address? Will I let anyone see my 'blog?' Or is it just a place for me to write when I feel so inclined....Why am I doing this?

I think it is interesting that 66% of blogs are abandoned

The Blogging Iceberg -
Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs, Most Little Seen, Quickly Abandoned

Will I keep this up? Why or why not? Will I published the address? Hmmmm....

searching thoughts

the book is all we do and all we think about...sort of. It is the start and finish of every action - yet there is so much to be distracted by and so much else to do...PhotoCentral, Foothill, Dinner, Children, Family, birds, gardens, visitors and everything else in the work come into our thoughts...which are like butterflies...

Book stuff is here: http://www.modernbook.com/books.htm

I am here....happy. sad. tired. hopeful. onward....

Jane Thoughts

I sit here next to my friend Jane and hope...not for recovery. This not possible. Jane is in the last stages of dying from brain cancer. But I hope that she will not suffer much longer and that she will not leave us at the same time. I listen to her breath and wait for it to stop. My heart goes most to Fred, her husband and friend, who has been so amazing in this process of illness and death.

Jane Website