The Minkkinen Helsinki Bus Station Theory

Tonight I had the privilege of hearing (and seeing) Photographer Arno Minkkinen speak at the Photographic Resource Center’s Polaroid Spotlight Lecture. If you haven’t experienced Minkkinen’s photographs, please immediately go outside and prance...

Ski and Sky

As a photographer, sometimes you have to try new angles and perspectives to keep your vision fresh. As a person, sometimes you have to try new things to expand your horizons. This weekend, at the urging of A and L, I tried cross-country skiing. It afforded me many new...

Total Lunacy

During last night’s lunar eclipse, just a few minutes before totality, an airplane passed by. Once the sky was clear of interruption, you could clearly see Saturn (left) and Regulus (above) near the moon. The moon, basking in the reddish light of earth’s...

Day and Night

I wonder if cameraphones are the new polaroids. The pictures they make are quick, easy, sharable, used to document events or evidence, engagingly low-quality but sometimes oddly beautiful, and often a form of social lubrication. Sure, most of this goes for any digital...

Night and Day

Fluffy clouds and waxing gibbous moon over Miami. Things really are different in the tropics.