our newest addition to the family... elfin forest, ca, 6.20.18
This is Honor and she's a seven year old Tennessee walker that we adopted last week... this is her shy face, she's not sure about the camera yet.
banana slugs, butano state park
I haven't been feeling too inspired lately so here are a couple of banana slugs i shot in northern california last September... each one of these guys is about 8 inches long.
B&W vs Color Debate Is No Debate At All
In 2015, Leica released a beautiful, ridiculous ad. It was for a special product in their lineup; a digital camera that only takes black and white photos.
The clip itself is strangely compelling. Set to hypnotizing black and white patterns, a calm voiceover says B&W is purer than color. The hyperrealism of color, it points out, isn’t just overly crass, it’s unnecessary. Color is an aid for people without imagination: “In the color world, there’s no space for dreams.”
Of course this is wrong. If anything it’s the other way around: color is actual, we don’t see in monochrome. Insisting on black and white is often a pretentious turn. Leica’s ad rehashes one of the oldest debates in the history of photography: Which is better, black and white or color? The two do different things, the debate is fruitless. However, it helps to know about this *controversy* in order to understand how we and photography got here... read more
best shot from last night's slayer/anthrax show
The last time I saw Anthrax live George Bush was president... and I don't mean the dumb one. Great show and we had a ton of fun.
saturday in valley center, ca
We took a drive out to valley center so An could ride this very sweet tennessee walker. she might have been the nicest horse we've ever met.
