Tracey, Ca

Muriwai, New Zealand

Brentwood Ca

Moonrise on the road to Yosemite.

I knew it would be rising soon, I had been watching it rise and grow, the week before, together we were anticipating this little jaunt.

 It did come from below, like this time it really was rising, like this was the time I could know why I had always said rising.

This road was going to the moon, the headlights wouldn't have been seen on its surface, lost in its brush-strokes. Tungstens and oxides and halogen all slapped onto calico,  ochres and rust and brighter for its immediacy to the horizon.

The gas gauge was pointed up, the warm air from the heater mixing with the cool night and cigarettes.

And soon the gauge was up again...feet slapping on concrete and linoleum of  a gas station floor.

Written in my 2002 journal.

Iphone for location scouting

It always comes down to the very best camera for the shot is the camera in hand...so I have been making the most of my Iphone. It's great for recording the co-ordinates of a location that may look better in different  light. I can drop a pin or record the location as a bookmark and return when the light might be better. 

 

The Chase Jarvis Shoe Project

Seattle based photographer Chase Jarvis was speaking at a Photoshelter event in San Francisco...he implied that his success was achievable by anyone who "walked his walk"....he went on to say that it took a lot to fill his size 11 shoes......

I wrote to Chase saying that it would be easier to walk a mile in his shoes if I actually had his shoes....being the all around good guy that he is...he sent me a pair of his shoes....

I have had them at my place for a while now and came up with the idea to shoot a picture of them and to have as many other photographers as possible shoot them as well....

I came to know of Chase's work through the Strobist Blog of Photographer David Hobby...So i offered up the shoes to subscribers of his blog... and the Project seems to have really blown up....within hours more than fifty photographers have wanted in on the project.....

Chihuly at the DeYoung

I have been a fan of Chihulys work for more than twenty years now and can't believe I almost didn't find out about what is possibly his largest exhibition to date........in my backyard.

KQED which carries a bunch of PBS programming in the Bay Area played "Chihuly in the Hotshop" last week to promote the exhibition which is at the De Young Museum......It is essentially Chihuly working with his teams to recreate works from his previous series'...in front of an audience at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.

It was so interesting to hear him talking of finding Japanese Fishing Floats washing up on the shores of Washington when he was a boy.....the floats are blown glass spheres attached to nets with what are essentially rope baskets....the floats get away from the nets and become trapped in  a large  circular current system in the Northern Pacific until storms set them free.....

www.chihulyatthedeyoung.org