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New season with fresh, green stuff.

New Growth. Spring. We went for a long walk to celebrate Musical Miss’ birthday. We discovered a lot of new growth, really, really new growth. Seems like a good start to her year. She’s not working that much. During an non-new album year most musicians don’t stay on the road. She likes small jazz festivals so we are playing seven in South America, and twelve in Europe. Easy year for…

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Days, Nights & Other Times

For my first April picture… My business year starts today. I don’t remember why I shuffled it, but I did it very early in my career and still do it. I mention this because as flexible as I might be, I like bookends. I was reading another long term blogger who has evolved from a daily writer to eventually a twice a week blogger. Today, he announced that he was done, that he might reappear once…

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Oh! My Heart

Many of you know my history, that I lived and worked in Hong Kong for six years. I really haven’t talked about holidays and play time. If I was taking a long weekend or I bit longer I usually jumped on a jet and flew to Bangkok. There’s a lot to do there and it’s easy to make friends. After just a couple trips I had a little community. I made friends in funny ways. One day, a rust bucket…

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Learning Something

Trains keep rolling. Content. Weasil words. Words that are so broad that they mean nothing. I’ve been whining about this for years. It got kicked up a bit today when I read a piece in Substack by a photographer who still thinks technical quality, who thinks clients should be treated well, products should fulfill its brief and be delivered on time. He thinks you. shouldn’t shoot a ton of junk…

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Sunday Minimilism

Drifting. Sunday. You know what that means. Take a nap. And, I’ll see you on Monday.

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Tuba Fats

Toot, toot, toot. There were two tuba bands, tuba fats and tuba skinny. You can probably guess which was which, I can’t remember any of them. We thought about going home for Mardi Gras. We didn’t. We thought about going home for Pableaux’s funeral. It sort of petered out, We didn’t go. That’s something that we’ve been hearing and reading.After CoVid wore itself out, and so many people were…

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Dead flowers via the US Mail.

It happened so fast. I think my computer issues are over. For now. I have no idea what really happened. I pressed a lot of buttons and reset a lot of tabs. That’s not exactly fixing things. With my large fingers, it’s something that I probably did. But,because my desktop was dark it was very hard to find anything I may have misplaced. So, now the desk top is white with light blue highlights.…

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Now might be the time to make the surprise move.

Shadows in the sun. This is mostly about imagination and what you can see if you don’t look and mostly just see though your minds eye. This occurred to me last night after I was struggling with my computer. I work on it for awhile and sort of lay my head on the keyboard to help me think. It didn’t matter about accidentally hitting the keys because it took extra pressure to make them do…

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Someday, somebody explain this to me, please.

As you know, my new computer decided to go to hell. I tried everything I could research to repair the issue. No. Never any joy. Last night I came to the crossroads. I went into every possible place I could reset something. Finally, I came to a setting that basically said that my files were too narrow. It’s a Google plug in that works as an interface with Firefox. It worked but it took exactly…

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Down On The Corner

Young man at the end. There’s portraits, and there’s portraits. Then, there’s my portraits. Many people believe that a portrait should be a pretty thing. Me? I believe portraits should be a thing. They come whenever they come, a good reason to always camera, which is partially how this one came to be. We were sitting talking and getting ready to burn some meat when this portrait reared its…

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A Mystery

Nature in every form. I had grand plans for this post, but technology got in the way. Something happened during the process that enables my M2 chip to fly around. It crashed and stayed crashed. After struggling with it for the weekend, I did what Apple suggested and switched to Safari. They suggest that for everything. It’s still pretty slow, but it’s stable. I still think the issue is in the…

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That Sunday Thang

It’s everywhere. Sunday. It happens once a week no matter what you do. You should be doing what you normally do on a Sunday and go back to sleep after sleeping until noon. I’ll see you on Monday after you get enough sleep, about 19 hours worth.

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Of Golden Light

You got gold… I was driving down the road back of Albuquerque when the trees lit up like the were on fire. It only lasted for a minute or two, but it was stunning. It was New Mexican light. The kind of light that draws artists of all stripes to the state. The wonderful light is a result of a lot of elements, but the light that you see in this photograph is a mix of various afternoon airborne…

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It's About Time

Oh, oh spring. Click, click, click. I could hear the garden shears. I heard the tap water run. I heard flowers being placed in vases. And, I heard the patter of bare feet. I went downstairs to look. There were flowers everywhere. Fresh cut, garden flowers. The house smells great. The dogs ran around excited by indoor spring smells. They went out, taking us for a walk. We walked. They stayed…

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All The Things

Space walk. There are three images blended to make one picture. I reckon that this is more interesting. At least, you can’t find it anywhere on earth, which may be the entire point. It wasn’t when I started, But, that’s what it turned into. I swear, I’m fine and that isn’t a fever dream. Having said that, I’m not exactly. sure what I made. I may like it simply because I don’t think it has a…

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Flowers at Dusk

Flowers at dusk. The archive project is revealing some oddities, some that I can’t even remember photographing. I’ve always poked around abandoned and ruined buildings and stuff. I found this area right in the middle of the city, in City Park. I photographed it once and my adopted New Orleans family wanted some family pictures taken maybe in some funkified, ruined place. I showed them some of…

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Red

Rolling red. This is very pure, maybe as pure as it gets.. Even when you reach the highlights and deep shadows the picture is red. It’s minimal. it’s clean. And, it should be eye catching. And, that’s all it needs to be. It doesn’t need to cause great introspection. It just needs to be. Is it everybody’s cup of tea? I doubt it, but it doesn’t have to be loved by everybody. Just a few. The…