I seem to rely on Carmi’s Thematic Photographic these days to remind me to post to my own site, ignoring the damn thing until I suddenly remember that he has likely—unfailingly—updated the week’s assignment. In any case, it gets me to take a break from all that stuff sitting heavy on my shoulders—work, other work, [...]
I’ve heard fog referred to as “pea soup,” which aptly describes a yellowish fog. But that fog is typically not our fog. Ours is more a “15-bean” deal, misty and grey, but no less thick.
Fog is not an all-the-time deal around here, but I’m always intrigued by it when it befalls my fair city, especially [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Portland is generally pretty reliable in its winterly ways: Grey skies and light drizzle, followed by rain, followed by heavy rain, with a chance—maybe—of not so much rain later in the week. Every so often there is the sun, and blue, and clear. And sure, we may or may not get a few days each [...]
Thursday, February 12, 2009
What you see here is the classy smile of a 1937 Bugatti Type 57SC Atalante, one of not all that many handsome streamlined coupes to emerge from the factory in Molsheim, France. Last August, it sold at auction in Pebble Beach, California, for a not-unsubstantial $7.9m.
Carmi is all about “up” this week, and as I [...]
I am thrilled to be nibbling on photography once again. I am convinced—and there are those among you who would sure argue otherwise—but I am convinced that the eye matters most in the photographic process.
All else is secondary. The $5,000 camera, the $8,000 lens, the darkroom manipulation and the Photoshop tweak, they fail you without [...]
I believe in black and white.
In my photography, in my writing. And in my editing, though everyone and his brother knows an editor’s pencil is blue.
I am colorblind, and that informs the way I see the world. It’s technically a red-green deficiency, but in the composite realm of RGB, two outta three is significant.
Mark Fairchild [...]