a million pebbles

a notebook of sorts

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Goethe

Category: photo

  • New York City – 2011 I’ve been remembering what it felt like as a young man to live in the same town with giants. When I first arrived in New York my personal giants were a dozen or so columnists and critics and poets whose names appeared regularly in the papers. I burned with a…

  • “To see something spectacular and recognize it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility – that is what I am interested in.” – Stephen Shore

  • Boo / January 2024 oh to be able to curl up like this.

  • Shasta County, California – January / 2024

  • I feel like a great weight has been lifted, and while I never lost hope there were times when it was iffy, but tonight I feel good. Congratulations President elect Joe Biden and Vice President- elect Kamala Harris. We have so much work to do.

  • “Experience has shown, however, that the best way to avoid talking about the pictures is to talk about their subjects – tract houses or fields or trees or any of the myriad and interesting details of life. If you have to fill the quiet of a picture, the least destructive way seems to be to…

  • Palace of Fine Arts – San Francisco, California / November 1985

  • I love it when I see random stuff on my walks. This calendar was on top of a bush. And this take out menus book? Not even sure what that is. Is it some sort of binder for take out menus? I suppose I could have looked inside but I was carrying a bag of…

  • Coit Tower taken from Lombard Street.