The best, like water,Benefit all and do not compete.They dwell in lowly spots that everyone else scorns.Putting others before themselves,They find themselves in the foremost placeAnd come very near to The Tao.In their dwelling, they love the Earth;In their heart, they love what is deep;In personal relationships, they love kindness;In their words, they love truth.In…
Category: interests
dog walking in boulder
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…
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…