Archive for the ‘life’ Category
the photographer who came in from the cold…
I went to ground a couple months back in order to get some things done. Having the show in Chicago was a treat. I didn’t fall in the river or get blown out into Lake Michigan or anything, which was good. I did get about five hours of unencumbered time on that Saturday. A quick [...]
Augenblick…
I’ve only been to Chicago once. It was on The Great Western Camping Trip three years back, and we hit Chicago a glancing blow, on our way from Indiana Dunes to the Wisconsin Dells. It was mostly traffic. The Boy took many photos of the backs of large trucks, and I discovered my dream job, [...]
dangerously close to a pecan log..
OK, yeah, my fingers got all twitchy when Salinger went running through the rye. But really, what with Styron and Updike and Vonnegut on the board, the tally for author obits was threatening to skew my tag cloud. You know, if I had a tag cloud. So I continued to lurk in the darker corners [...]
when it rains…
Tuesdays The Boy has after-school trombone lessons on campus, giving me thirty minutes of uncommitted time. Camera time. I’ve been on another one-lens kick; you know, limit yourself to a single focal length. This week it’s the 77mm f/1.8 on my K-7D. Autumn here means rain, and when it rains, you get this wonderfully diffused [...]
was blind but now I see…
He walked in the dark from the train station, on his way to work, where he rented rooms to men from the neighborhood, twenty bucks a pop, while women he knew were there tried to make themselves invisible in the parking lot. He’d worked there since he moved to town, even slept in the quickly [...]
