Warning: Be prepared for anything. I felt awful the day I took this photograph. I had two toothaches. One on the top right and one on the bottom left. I could feel the holes in my teeth. It helped to make wads of paper napkins and bite down hard. Why does it help to grind down [...]
Have you ever felt like your were in the middle of nowhere only to find that you’re not? Some years ago I was photographing with a friend in Southern Utah. We were on Highway 12 on our way to the remote town of Escalante. We stumbled upon a large stand of aspen trees and hiked [...]
A neighbor saw me walking back and forth behind my apartment complex in Santa Barbara and asked: “What are you doing back there?” I said “Looking for great light.” He said “You’re lookin’ for light in all the wrong places.” It was clever. I laughed and then took this self-portrait. Can anyone explain what [...]
A major effort by parents around the world is to get their kids to “tell Jimmy you’re sorry”. I’ve mostly given up on this routine unless other parents are around me and they expect me to do/say it because the apology is usually one of these “Sorry your face got in the way of my fist Jimmy.” [...]
Santa Ynez (ya-nezz) is a town located north of LA and Santa Barbara. The Santa Ynez river drains the north slope of the Santa Ynez mountains. It travels 75 miles from the Santa Ynez mountains to its end at the Pacific Ocean. The Santa Ynez river is as photogenic as a Ms. Universe finalist. 1998, the last year of my [...]
I must have been sitting there for an hour. I wasn’t used to walking that much. When you go to New York all you do is walk. You walk from Times Square to Central Park to Soho to Columbus Circle. I was there for the second time to explore and photograph. My first trip was in 1998. [...]
An interview with myself Jon: Tell me about this photograph Jon: My Dad, sister and brother and I were in San Diego at an internet marketing conference in March. We took a couple of hours off from the conference to get some sunshine. We stopped by the Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego. Jon: Why there? Jon: I like [...]
“It’s time to get up for Kindergarden.” “Do I have to go?” “What do you think?’ “Where’s Bailey?” “She’s been awake for about an hour already. She’s watching Hannah Montana on TV.” “Do I have to go to Kindergarden?” “What do you think” “Is it almost summertime yet?” “No, its four months away.” “Is that a [...]
Sometimes the best things are accidental. “Happy accidents” as my old photo teacher used to say. This photograph is an example of that. It’s an old barn that I photographed in 1989. In a High School photo class, I put it in the mount press and started joking with some other students. I forgot about the print as we went to the darkroom [...]
So much happens in any given day. How can anyone remember most of it? My brother and his wife came over for dinner a few months ago and I took this photo of Wyatt, his son, drinking his bottle. I’m in the photo too, see my old brown shoe in the lower right corner? That’s the [...]
There is an image from the same swinging occasion that I posted a few days ago here. I wrote about the simple joys of life in that post. The simple joys can get tired though. In fact some of them lose all their allure with the passage of time. For example. Grace can swing for 10 minutes [...]
I posted about the ceiling at the getty villa a couple weeks ago here. I saw this image and thought it was worthy of a post too.
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