We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

Aesop wrote the title of this post about 600 years before Christ was born. And though more than 2500 years passed before the city planners of New Orleans ignored this warning, they now have an opportunity to do something about the destruction. And so do you. High resolution images are being updated regularly on Google Earth, the source of the above image. Search for the FEMA trailer site for Residents of St. Bernard and go North East to see where this image was taken. Spread... Read More

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die

I photographed a survivorship event tonight at a Cancer support center. All of the attendees either had or have Cancer. There was a beautiful woman who’s hair was just starting to grow back. She demonstrated her confidence by not wearing a wig. The decor of the center was interesting. Art decorated the interior spaces. Among metal and ceramic sculptures there were poems from small children scribbled into drawings of different shapes and colors all posted along one... Read More

Confessions from the Barbarian King

Who knows what inspires us. I recently smelled someone I had not seen for a while, and I swear I could smell her for the rest of the day and into the next. One of my tricks to get someone to look like they are thinking is to ask them to smell the air. Smell and memory are very closely spaced out in the brain. Usually I get a laugh from the subject, which also works. Being inspired on shoots is sometimes a difficult thing. But this blog entry is being inspired by recent... Read More

Not a stone, just a man

But I gather no moss. I went running tonight, for the first time in a while. What was my motivation? Some show on TV of overweight British women trekking through the jungle. I didn’t have one of those moments where I said to myself, “If they can do it, so can I!” But just the idea of trekking through the jungle SAS style was enough to get me into my wicking clothes and out the door. PLUS! There was a bootleg recording of the Rage Against The Machines concert... Read More

Sweet as a field of grass

Life is Beautiful, but it’s complicated. I looked up the song title “Life is Beautiful” today at Barnes and Noble, and 60 entries came up with that as the song title! 60! It’s plagiarism gone amok! And, of course, the version by Vega4 wasn’t listed, which was the only version I cared to hear. Because of recent problems with people in my office, I listen to my headphones a lot. And hearing some of these songs is the only way to concentrate. And honestly,... Read More

The gourd of life dries out and is later sold in a road side market

Well, that last blog entry now seems a bit harsh to me. But that’s what I was feeling at the time. And it’s a blog. So it includes the present but only in the past tense. Work is getting slowly but surely easier for me now. Instead of 15 things hanging over my head, I only have 5 or so now. And because new things aren’t coming in as quickly, I am able to increase my efficiency and rate of job completion at an exponential rate. Yesterday, someone asked me for... Read More