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Archive for the ‘pictures’ category

Carnivorous thing

August 10th, 2011

I have no idea what it is but it came out of my imagination today. Maybe my subconscious is trying to say something about the economy. Look, I signed it and everything! Also, it’s cc-by-nc.

Welcoming 2010

January 4th, 2010

Happy new year.

Friday Nights

March 27th, 2009

I sell my photography at Lightproofbox.com, my photo blog. I don’t sell a whole lot, a few photos a month. Some of it is prints but I’d estimate more than half is licenses. Book covers and music mostly, some for ads and signage and the like. But I very rarely see the finished product (here’s [...]

This is a picture I did not take

February 9th, 2009

…of brown leaves rolling on wet, golden-green grass as I walked through the park to collect the children after school. The sun shone down from behind me and all around, the kind of golden late afternoon light that trumpets between low puffy storm clouds breaking up after the rain. Ahead, the leaves were blowing slantwise [...]

I just want to be ok

December 17th, 2008

Sweet tradition

December 8th, 2008

I received a nice note from a woman I sold a print to last week (this one): The picture arrived this weekend. It’s gorgeous. Every year for Christmas I give my husband a black and white photograph of the place where we spent our anniversary that year. This year we spent our 5th anniversary actually [...]

Untitled

October 21st, 2008

2 minutes and 45 seconds in the Fashion District

October 12th, 2008

9th & Maple, Downtown, Los Angeles

Not for sale

April 17th, 2008

I know where you can not get one of these handsets at a great price. You know, just in case you don’t want one. Um, thanks?

Paying the taxman

April 14th, 2008