I arrived home last night after my 12-hr drive from Seattle, and had a sweet 10-hr sleep … aaaahhhhh!!!
Then I woke up just in time for another day of madness - scrambling to get an impossible number of critical things done in one day. Now, 9:15pm, I have to go to the airport for the red-eye to Detroit. […]

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Driving back to the Bay Area from Seattle today brought back memories of an amazing hitchhiking trip that I took down the coast, from Seattle to San Diego, many years ago with my friend Gerry. Two guys hitchhiking is a recipe for not getting a lift, so we had to devise ways around this. One […]

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I’m going shooting tonight… I met a guy, Raoul, who’ll be watching my back. A friend of his, a graff artist, may come too. Seattle has many great locations to shoot. I was here last year and stumbled upon a vast old industrial area that ran for miles. I shot this at the time:
Alleys & Fire […]

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Cosmos (not Kramer), 2001
…shot  in the last surviving farm in Toronto (now more of a farm museum), with the day’s last minute of sunlight skimming the flower’s delicate surface…

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I flew back to California today. Pam came along this time, since she’s from Ann Arbor and has friends and family there.
I have 2 days to get a whack of stuff done before I drive the 14 hours to Seattle for another show. I spent the evening printing.
This is one of the few photographs that […]

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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 just drove into Ann Arbor, MI (from Chicago), where I’m doing a show this week. I lived here for 3 years before moving to California. Its a beautiful town, full of good people. I had a very, very crappy 4-hour sleep in the front seat of my van last night at a truck stop. […]

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I spent the greater part of the day freaking out as it finally dawned on me that my schedule is completely out of control. I’m at the airport in San Francisco, on my way to a show in Chicago. After my 18-hour drive from Denver, I had two sleep deprived days to get a thousand things […]

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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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What a fantastic show Cherry Creek is… my best show ever.
I went shooting last night in Denver. I had planned to go Friday and Saturday but I was too wiped out, so Sunday night I dragged my sorry ass into the night air, determined to find something. A double espresso brought me back to life.
I […]

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