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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I just found my Brain Worm mascot. I shot this in 1985 during a Montreal winter cold snap - I’m thinking -30 C / -22 F.
For years I wanted to do a whole series of close up frost pictures. I know there would be a whole glorious world to discover in the beautiful intricacies of […]

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The shoot in Indianapolis went well  -  I should say great, because I just got the film and pictures back from the lab today, and I’m very, VERY pleased. But I’ll say “well” because I’m my own worst critic.
It was a dirty shoot, and another smooth adventure. Dave Evans and I went crawling around and under tight […]

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After 18 months of living in the Bay Area, I have a handful of images I’m happy with. It hasn’t been easy. I’ve scoured this vast and relatively young urban setting for old decaying stuff to shoot. Whenever I was out, I sniffed the air for urban rot. I followed countless leads and found myself in countless dead […]

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I came across some of my old B&W negatives today, and they rekindled some of my early photography memories. In 1983, when I was 18 and happily painting and drawing, I took a photography class in college - it was actually named Photo 101. I had the teacher load my first roll of film, since […]

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I picked up my negatives and prints from the photo lab today. Happily, in spite of the mayhem during my Compton, CA ally shoot, I remembered to take the lens cap off!!
These will be good photographs.

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