Lunacy

Were you lucky enough to see the lunar eclipse today? I didn’t, but a month ago, I saw the moon over Southern France.I like dark skies and I cannot lie. Other shooters can’t deny.In other news, it looks like Forbes agrees with me on the XM-Sirus...

Viva Europa

I got the film back from the 36 hours of relaxation I managed to squeeze out of the tail end of an otherwise grim business trip to Cannes. I’m really enjoying the inky blackness of shooting Tri-X at night, hand-held, underexposed and not even pushed....

The view from the pool

Not at my hotel, but at the Nazarine Palace at the Alhambra. I’m always looking for an angle that doesn’t include any tourists, and also one that’s not in everybody else’s vacation photos. I suppose that if you search Flickr, you might find the...

Beauty in the eye of… somebody

A friend of mine (yes, a real friend, not the “so I have a friend who has this problem…” kind of “friend”) has been updating his online dating profile and asked his friends to help him choose among several pictures. The friends generally agreed, but were always...

Night in Nice

My ideas about the Cote d’Azur were formed by repeated viewings of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. When you’re on a business trip in the middle of winter, Beaumont Sur Mer it’s not. Nice seems to be in the process of getting ready for carnivale but...