Onward and onward… I’m sitting at the airport in Des Moines with 30 minutes to spare, waiting for my plane to take me back to California. After the show in Milwaukee I went out shooting with a young, local photographer, Mark Adgate. I’m thrilled about the one shot we did! It will be on-line in a few […]

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I hit the wall today (Whaaa, whaaa, whaaa). I’ve been overdoing it… Fri night I went to Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery (a rooftop bar with great views) with my friends Neil and Jason and went to sleep at 1:30, having to wake up at 3:30am. I slept the 2 hours in my van, then […]

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Early this morning I’ll be off on my merry way again… back to Chicago, where I hear I have a van waiting in the parking lot. I’m doing the great Old Town art festival this weekend in Chicago, then I’ll head to Ann Arbor for a Monday night beer break at my old hang out, TC’s […]

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Dave Chappelle was on my flight back home yesterday. He is a comic genius who seemed to suffer a breakdown at the peak of his career in 2005. In the middle of the third season of his fantastic and groundbreaking show, Chappelle’s Show on Comedy Central, he stunned his fans and the network by walking out, […]

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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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I’m in Ann Arbor tonight, off to Chicago tomorrow for the 57th Street show. I had almost forgotten what humidity was…
I don’t often get to see my old friends from TC’s Speakeasy, the old, crusty bar in that old, crusty town, Ypsilanti, MI, …  but I’ll be hanging out with them tonight.
Alleys & Fire Escapes, […]

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I’ve updated the Alley slide show - it now has several of my recent images. I’ve also added stories to some of my older images, including NOW (below). And I’ve re-ordered the images: newest first, down to the oldest. The oldest, incidentally, is Alley no. 1, shot in 1991.
Alleys & Fire Escapes, no. 97
NOW (2007, Los Angeles, CA, 1:30am)
Planning […]

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I went to Alcatraz and Angel Island on Monday with Pam - our first time there (we moved to CA from MI 18 months ago). It was truly amazing; both locations are steeped in history and legend and photo ops.
Alcatraz is, of course, the notorious maximum security prison which used to hold the worst 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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Its Monday morning, and its been a full weekend with no time to post. Friday night I hung out with one of my best friends, Steve Wagschal, in Bloomington, near Indianapolis. We grew up together and I see him and his family whenever I’m in Indy. Saturday night I went shooting alleys with Dave Evans, […]

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