This is a technical response to an email I received.  Read this in place of a sleeping pill. 
QUESTION: 
Hello X.N.,
My son and I saw your work at the Des Moines art show.  We really liked your work and spoke with you for a while about the night shots you do.  We’ve been contemplating trying some shots of […]

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I got back home this morning… drove all day and night from Denver, with Pam sharing the driving… Now I have today and part of tomorrow to do everything I can’t do on the road.
I fly to Des Moines tomorrow at midnight (with an armful of artwork) to get my van and drive to Chicago for the […]

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This is one of the last shots I ever did with my all-time favorite film: Agfa Ultra. Of course it died from neglect. Actually the whole company died…  it went bankrupt several years ago… one more victim of the digital tidal wave.  I had heard rumors of the film’s demise, but the company’s techies told me […]

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The Chicago Blues Festival is the city’s largest music festival, and is of course an appropriate festival for the City of Blues. Chicago became a mecca for blues after musicians from the Mississippi delta migrated there generations ago looking for a better life.
I went there this evening with my friends. What a stunning setting!! The […]

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This is another image in my I-don’t-know-what-to-do-with-it department, shot in Nov 2007.  I guess its good enough to get a numbered badge in the series (Alley 104), but it’ll probably languish in obscurity. I’m gonna take it out for beer and pizza tonight and give it the bad news. (Why is it beer and pizza […]

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I made it back home after an exciting week in L.A.
The fastest route between LA and the Bay Area is Interstate 5, which runs along California’s Central Valley. I’ve driven this route maybe a dozen times, and at this time of year it is blossoming with green hills and sprouting crops. This massive and incredibly fertile valley is one […]

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I don’t know where to begin… Yesterday was a mind-blowing day - First I meet a TV legend then I’m almost killed.
In the afternoon I met one of my collectors whom I’d been wanting to meet for some time. Earl Hamner is the creator/producer of TV’s The Waltons (and later Falcon Crest, plus he wrote many […]

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Doing shows is a great way to meet people who are willing to go shooting with me. I know virtually nothing about them when we finally get together to shoot, but thats when I get to know them. A year ago I met the unassuming Jeff Eastin and got his number, telling him I’d call eventually. A […]

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Shot around New Year 2007, near San Simeon, CA on Hwy 1
One of the most spectacular scenic drives I have ever taken is Hwy 1, from Carmel, south for 100 miles of incredible Pacific Coast scenery. This winding highway (also called the Cabrillo Hwy) is carved on the edge of the mountains of the Santa Lucia Range. The 2nd […]

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I finally got around to writing notes on a few more Alleys…  Today… Mutant! 
Alleys & Fire Escapes, no. 91 - “Mutant”  (2006, St. Louis, MO, 11:45pm)
In 1999, a three mile concrete wall along the St. Louis riverfront (flood gates for the Mississippi River) became the site of the country’s largest graffiti competition: Paint Louis was born. […]

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