Boulder, Colorado is a great place to walk. In the 1960s, several forward thinking people established a greenbelt around Boulder – also called Open Space. Boulder is a great place to walk your dog off leash if you are a Boulder resident and have a “voice and sight” tag for your dog. Here are some…
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street photography in france 2018
France is a great place to photograph people. 2 reasons – first the people are very colorful and often fashionable, the second and more important reason – I don’t speak French. I would just gesture and ask them if I could “make a portrait” (as Eric Kim says) of them. If they cussed me out,…
spring break books
Read some thought provoking books this weekend. In these five breaths – Paul R Lipton This is a semi autobiographical piece from Paul Lipton, a retired attorney from Boulder. The protagonist ends up in a hospital, dying, with 5 breaths remaining. During each breath he relives periods of his life. As Soren Kierkegarrd says “Life…
photography books
Looked through some interesting photo books this weekend. 3 of my favorites are: Koudelka Koudelka – Gypsies Looking In – Robert Frank’s The Americans Some quotes from Robert Frank: What you reject ….. is just as important. When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want…
walk in marble
Marble, Colorado is one of my favorite places to walk. We have a cabin there, in the shadow of Mt. Whitehouse. Part of this mountain is an old marble mine – the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC was carved from marble mined here. Marble is down the road from Carbondale – Mt. Sopris looms over…
eric kim street photography class
Eric is a world class street photographer who taught me a few things about photography – especially how to approach subjects, the “3D loser” way to approach photography and to “buy photography books not gear”. Here are some pictures from the 2 days Nelson, Bryan and I spent with Eric Kim (and Jun) BTW, Eric…