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August twenty-second was the anniversary of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s birth in nineteen-oh-eight. It was a hot day in Los Angeles lo these hundred and one days later, but I figured I better do something to celebrate the man.
I decided to head downtown and bring a camera with me. I figured I’d go back to my roots, [...]

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Disregard. I’m just testing out something…
My Saturday

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Just seen misposted on Craigslist. Keep in mind, the seller is not yet ready for an actual offer, only to start the discussions.

Genuine Barry Manilow 35mm Slide - circa 1980
Email with your phone number if you are interested in discussing

If only I was tied in to a global distribution concern for coffee mugs, fridge [...]

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I took this photo when I was “photowalking” with a friend of mine in industrial Carson, CA on May 3, 2009 — a godforsaken area of large refineries, processing plants, huge piles of fluorescent yellow goop, in other words a goldmine for people who like to photograph the gritter side of our declining civilization. [...]

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The professional football team I’ve rooted for in the past has just agreed to pay one million six-hundred thousand dollars to Michael Vick, a man convicted of raising dogs for the purpose of torturing and killing those dogs as entertainment.
I love to watch sports, despite certain problems I have with the value system that professional [...]

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This intersection of chance, luck, fortune and funk arose from me riding my bike in the neighborhood. I came across this cool car. I parked and whipped out the Lubitel — a plastic low-fi twin-lens-reflex camera. The camera is made for one-twenty medium-format sized film. But, I’d loaded it with thirty-five millimeter drugstore film. [...]

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What will happen on 09/09/09 at 09:09?? A little cat told me we’ll be in ninth heaven on that date. What will be given birth to? Hmm. Will it be full-frame?
All jokes aside: I guess the more important question is: Can I afford to be part of this nonogonal notion?
Nein!
Images from the Nine group [...]

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New Flickr Search « Flickr Blog.
Wow, Flickr reoganized their search results page. At first I thought it was a vaguely general positive. I was ready to rip Flickr for their snail’s pace of progress and lack of innovation, but then I realized that when you search the site for my favorite event to photograph, “coachella,” [...]

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This is commentary on: For Annie Leibovitz, a Fuzzy Financial Picture - NYTimes.com.
I’m ashamed to admit that for many years, I dismissed the name Annie Liebovitz as fluff celeb photography. This was before I got into photography myself. To be sure, she does some really flamboyant work for Vanity Fair, but she is a very, [...]

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