I’ve come to believe that every little kid growing up needs a tree to call their own. It doesn’t matter if this tree is in a yard or a nearby city park. The tree can be shared, but it needs to be your spot for shade from the sun and shade from the world for [...]
The part of summer that will suck the life out of most people is here and it’s heavy. Stupid hot outside. It’s taxing. I’m taxed and not sure why. My interest in trying to keep up with politics doesn’t do much for me either, trying to stay positive about either candidate is about as easy [...]
With all the driving that’s been going on, I’ve been taking old film in my old yashicamat and capturing the roads I’ve been on, or what is just off the road.Here are a few previews from the gallery that will be launched with my new website (being built by master visual organizer, my brother) before [...]
I have seldom felt more powerless and insignificant than I do when in the Great Plains. In the hills or the mountains there is always another turn or crevasse to seek shelter in. Where it is endlessly flat, there is nothing. There is beauty in it but there is also a feeling of loss. Mother [...]
Crashing in Duluth, Minnesota. Took a run on the waterfront. Seems like a cool city, though I’m not really gonna find out in depth at the moment. Nothing good to say. Too tired.
Looking out my fifth floor Radisson window the streets are glowing that urban orange amidst official looking Greek columns and carefully manicured lawns [...]
Yeah, where your Leinenkugel’s Honey Weiss or Summer Shanty or whatever you prefer is from. Up here.It’s beautiful, temperate … and the strawberries are amazing (not to mention there’s a huge, beautiful lake named Superior a mile down the road).
I’m up here in Washburn, Wisconsin for part of my summer photography fellowship with the National [...]
Just a little find from High Cliffs in Appleton, Wisconsin last week.Some things make you stop and think. It’s never bad to get a little perspective.
Happy Fourth of July weekend to all.This summer I have the good fortune of being home on occasion, and am trying to look at home in a different way. A slow, calculated, deliberate and honest way. People who know me know that I am a fervent advocate of the importance of family, and maybe that’s [...]