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: photography

  • “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

  • Newark, California - June 2023

  • THE MORNING CALIFORNIA SUN IS streaming in over her left shoulder, making her thin gray hair shine a little, gleam, like old pewter newly polished. “Look here,” Marion Post Wolcott says, bringing out some drugstore-developed3 X 5 color snapshots. They’re a little out of focus and perfectly ordinary in composition, the kind you might shoot…

  • Ocean Beach / San Francisco, California  ( 2020 )

  • “Photography is about that moment. Most people try to complicate to show how difficult it is. When your mouth drops open – click the shutter. Hello. That’s it.” Harold Feinstein