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All my life I’ve loved words, images, and special individuals. In this site I’m going to share my essays, poems, photography, left-leaning-politics, cooking, humorous sayings, and explorations...

Photography & Books

Is it just me, or have we again drifted into the dark night our political souls? My first signal of this…before Occupy and Arab Spring…was that the only ones making cogent observations were the cartoonists. It struck me that Stone …

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Cupcake Shoottop comments

The Bonjour Cupcake shoot evolved out of the studies of a local lighting study group in Olympia, Washington. We did a test shoot with one light pattern and then returned 2 weeks later to shoot with local models and customers. …

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This image is dedicated to the politicos who defy facts and then make up their own reality to justify their positions. Herman Cain’s secreted harem implies he may be a closeted Mormon fundamentalist. During cross-examination about his infidelities he enters …

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Shaniac Lovetop comments

Shane, why do you wear those yellow-tinted lens? I need a little warmth in this cold, gray Pacific Northwest… Mart, what do you say I take those brass chimes after we replace your doorbell. Yeah. I’ll miss those rich brash …

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Food Picker

Before going to Seattle Rep theater we fueled up at Cafe Campagne. Great slide menu, this one features lamb. Again shot with an iPhone and very little post processing here. chicken & mash potatoes slider in cloud This was shot …

 

Steichen’s Pictorialist Train Ride

I just finished 700 incredible pages about Edward Steichen by Penelope Niven. In the early days Steichen and Steiglitz championed the artful nature of photography. Later Steichen would go in other directions with his incredible work at Vogue and later …

 

Someday we’ll neuter you fat cats!

Fat Cats Down Grade Our American Dream You choked our food stream with toxins I can’t pronounce You sold me insurance then denied all my claims. After carelessly strangling the air the thermometer went up Now I sweat and freeze …

 

What did he care about?

I can work with tea baggers What did he care that his people starved while the Krupps and their corporate cronies dined on the spoils of war. This ideological purist this son of Satan planted a cross atop his Bavarian …

 

A dream once made in America is now?

Once made in America It began with Henry Ford’s Model T where each man became just a cog on the line. Guided by Frederick Taylor’s unholy scientific management it would end with demonizing the blue collar workers and their unions. …

 

The Allure of the Automobile

What struck me about this image is the philosophical and technological underpinnings. Here is a car image shot with a small phone. This custom car from the 1930s belonged to the super rich. Now I view it as art in …