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Former medic, former prison counselor, former criminal defense investigator, former almost academic, photographer, writer of detective fiction, Edgar Award winner.
A subset of pleasing lines and shapes, with occasional winter light, can make even a men's toilet in a 1950s brutalist building look good.

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December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Had to step into a Big Box store today & came across this horrifying bastard.

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December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I still get a wee bit creeped out by the large open spaces of the Midwest, but lawdy, when the light is right...

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December 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I used to write the Sunday Salons--essays about photographers as a prompt for #photography discussions.

This 2007 salon is about John Humble, who scraped away the sedimentary layers of media-driven images of Los Angeles to find out what lay hidden beneath.
salon.utata.org/2007/12/23/j...
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I drove through the Target parking lot to get to the pet shop that stocks the only thyroid-friendly treats the resident cat can eat. I figured it was permissible to shoot a photo of the bench & bike racks without violating the boycott.

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December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My first thought: what an odd place to express an opinion. But it's a start. A stencil was made...good. It was put to use...good. It was sorta kinda in public view...good. And next?

It's all a progression toward more open expression.

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December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The cat was annoyed that the sun was shining but I'd failed my duty to raise the blinds.

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December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ain't nobody shooting hoops today.

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December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The only selfies I shoot on a regular basis are reflections in windows. I guess you'd call them self-reflections?

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December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yeah, I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for this. But it seems like once or twice a year I'll find a random pair of jeans lying in an alleyway.

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December 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I used to write the Sunday Salons--essays about photographers as a prompt for #photography discussions.

This piece, from 2007, is on Ralph Meatyard--one of those WTF photographers (which, okay, isn't an actual genre of photography, but ought to be).

salon.utata.org/2007/08/12/r...
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
William Kent, the Principal Painter in Ordinary to King George II, said, "Nature abhors a straight line." Aristotle said, "Nature abhors a vacuum." I suspect Nature is a lot more forgiving than folks credit.

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November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is the plant you'd find in the window of the office of a 1940s hard-boiled detective. In 3 weeks it'll be dead. Suspiciously.

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November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Why I carry a #RicohGR3x in my pocket: Larking About on Railroad Tracks edition.

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November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“You will be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
An old tree in an oxbow. It's like a lesson in How To Hold On.

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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Forget Secretary of Defense. Double forget Secretary of War.

This is the Secretary of Dense, only partly because we think he should get the F out of here.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Yesterday's bike ride along the railroad tracks, through the Valley of Warehouses, chilly but so pleasant.

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November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Not far from where I live is an area I call the Valley of Warehouses. I'm told it used to be farmland; now it's massive warehouses and data centers. An intercity bike trail threads through the area.

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November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I used to write the Sunday Salons--essays about photographers as a prompt for #photography discussions.

This piece, from 2007, is on Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu, one of those "who knows more than they care to about things they cannot afford to believe in."
salon.utata.org/2007/06/17/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I don't shoot a lot of landscapes, but this felt like it was inside a John Prine song.

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November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
So here's me having lunch in a small town diner, trying to ignore this animated discussion at the next table...then I figure out they're arguing about which Elder Scrolls game is better, Skyrim or Oblivion.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Why I carry a #RicohGR3x in my pocket: Shopping for Jams and Jellies edition. These old guys were serious about their preserves.

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November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM