Category Archives: B&W

Three Angry Faces

Do you see them?

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Blackbirds

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Sky Painting

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Sometimes nature does her own abstracts.

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Mountaintop Cross

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Taken from an Amtrack train somewhere near El Paso.

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Family At Shore

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Mono Lake

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This has always looked otherworldly to me.

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Transient in Library

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Girl with Kitten

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One of my neighbors in Stockton.

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SJDC Campus

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This shot was a full page cover for the college paper.

This was with my new, and not much used, Canon A1, sometime around 1980.

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Night Shot with Dropped Camera

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During this timed exposure, the tripod fell over.  I managed to catch it before it hit the ground, thank goodness.  This is the result.

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The Morning After

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Those were wild and crazy times.

Happy new year!

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Pillar of Mist

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Contemplating Infinity

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There is an infinite amount of nothing (there is far more nothing than there is something).

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Kim as Heavenly Body

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Back in my darkroom days, and before Photoshop, I used to do fun things like this.

Kim is actually in my swimming pool.  The technique you see here is called solarization, but with dodging around her head.  The “stars” are actually sand sprinkled on the photo paper during the second exposure.

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Steely Dan

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They were just hanging out at the beach in San Diego.  I didn’t even recognize them until months later, looking through my album art.

This was around Summer 1978.

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Martin Mull

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I was able to meet Mr. Mull in college when my friend Karen, who was a singing Playboy bunny, hired herself to go up on stage and present him a greeting from his local fan club (which was her).  She brought me along to photograph the event.

It went over so well he asked if she could do it again for the second show.  So between shows we hung out with him backstage, and he talked about the early days when he and Steve Martin were a comedy team (Steve Martin Mull).

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Jim Stafford

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This is Jim Stafford.  I interviewed and photographed him for my college paper.

What a decent, down-to-earth, talented guy.  He now has one of those theaters in Branson, Missouri.

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McKinney Gothic

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My daughter Jessie and I both have a somewhat morbid sense of humor.

This was taken in the Pecan Grove Cemetery in McKinney, Texas.

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Brick Mouth

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Brick mouth eating spaghetti.

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The Death of Love

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Love has died, and here’s where it was buried.

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Kim

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Back in the late 70’s, this was accepted for publication in Popular Photography.  I don’t know if it ever actually appeared, though.

It was my first experience with having to get a model (in this case, her parents) to sign a model release.

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Thorns

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Nature and man both make painful jabby things.

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Darth Vader’s Summer Cottage

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Helsinki, Finland

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Stockton Gothic

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Old friends (and neighbors) Kim and Larry.

I was trying to take a serious photo with them looking stoic in front of the American flag, but then a gust of wind came up and the shot went wrong – or actually, I think, right.

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Transparent Nude Self-Portrait

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I think I was about 18 years old here.

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Patti McGuire

She was Playboy’s 1977 Playmate of the Year, and I was so nervous I could barely speak.

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This is what she was signing…

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Bubbles

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My daughter Danielle blew the bubbles off our balcony and I snapped shots.

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A Girl and her Teddy

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Black and white portrait from the mid 1970’s.

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Up To No Good

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The old crew at Vortex Films, Ltd. (makers of the smash-hit film Red Sidewalk).

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Philip K. Dick, Clowns, and Reality

Reality According to Philip K. Dick

Did all this on my iPhone using Photogene, Vihgo, and Lifestrips Strip Designer. Images belong to whomever originally uploaded them to the Internet.

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