Coming Home
On my way home from Palermo to San Francisco, I've had to change planes a couple of times, and am overnighting at Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) near Paris. Travel…
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November 19, 2018
Corleone
Corleone is a town in central Sicily. Historically, many mafia bosses have come from Corleone. The anti-Mafia archive and museum is housed in Corleone (unfortunately not open when we visited).…
November 17, 2018
Patterns that are big, patterns that are small
Composition in photography is in large part about bringing an ordered visual experience to the chaotic reality of our world. This means finding, and emphasizing, patterns: patterns that are big,…
November 17, 2018
Accordion Player
Winding down the steep, narrow streets of the medieval Sicilian town of Cefalu towards the seaward ramparts, I could hear faintly some rather delicious accordion music. Getting closer, he sat…
November 15, 2018
Domes in the Palermo Cathedral
I don't get to use the word syncretic nearly as much as I'd like. Last appearing in this blog to describe the quasi-official mix of Shintoism and Buddhism in Japan,…
November 14, 2018
Palazzo Berardo Ferro, Trapani
Yesterday to get away from the madness at the hotel, I got up early, had a quick breakfast, made my way out the barricades, and drove to Trapani, an old…
November 13, 2018
A Memorable Arrival in Palermo
Leaving Malta long before sunrise---the taxi picked us up at the hotel at 3:45AM---under an overcast and misty sky I found myself looking forward to exploring Palermo, Sicily, a bit…
November 12, 2018
Weston Gallery sells two prints of my work
I am very pleased that Weston Gallery has sold two prints of my work. The subject of each print is a California mountain landscape. One is a panorama, Panorama of the…
November 10, 2018
Rotunda of Mosta
Here's another fisheye lens view of the interior of the Rotunda of Mosta---where the bomb fell through during WWII without detonating, or harming the assembled congregation!
November 7, 2018
Mosta Dome
This is the interior of the dome in the church located in Mosta, Malta. I photographed it with a circular fisheye lens, specifically the Nikkor 8-15mm at the roundest and…
November 6, 2018
Time Machine
I asked one of the participants in this year's Malta workshop what he wanted to get out of the workshop, and after a thoughtful response he turned it around on…
November 3, 2018
Wandering in Valletta
Today I wandered in Valletta, Malta. This is a wonderful and extraordinary place to wander with layer upon layer of things to look at and photograph. The whole capital city…
November 2, 2018
Goodbye Paris
It is with some degree of melancholy that I say goodbye to Paris for this time, as I have "sailed" to warmer climes. The Maltese Islands are a different universe,…
November 1, 2018
Last Day in Paris
This is my last day in Paris until the spring. I took the Metro into Concorde, walked over to the Orangerie, and sat for a while and marveled at the…
October 31, 2018
Rainy Day in Paris
Last night as a lay under my quilt in my garret room I heard the wind in a racing howl across Paris. I fell asleep to the rhythm of the…
October 30, 2018
Abstracting Sacré-Cœur
High atop the hill of Montmartre sits the cathedral of Sacré-Cœur---which, as I've pointed out before, is emblematic (when constructed) of a hard-right quasi-fascism as encouraged by the Church. From a…
October 29, 2018
View of Paris from my room
My garret room in Montmartre is part way up the hill to Sacré-Cœur. Under the hotel eaves, the room is on the sixth floor (fifth floor by European reckoning), and small.…
October 28, 2018
Earthlight
At sunset, the crescent moon reflected in the intertidal flats. The moon does not produce light. We see the moon because of reflected sunlight. In this photo, only the crescent…
October 23, 2018