"One of the great things about books is, sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
George Bush

“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
Jack Kerouac

“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?” -- Jane Welsh Carlyle

"Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence."
Minor White

Puyallup

"I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with images which (often) have a documentary interest, but which rarely go further than that. One has to be completely available, very tenacious and admit that many subjects won't give any results... and a miracle sometimes happens, without warning."
Martine Franck

Puyallup - waiting for my bus.

Puyallup - waiting for my bus.

“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”
William S. Burroughs

"There is no special way a photograph should look."
Gary Winogrand

Kent

Kent

Tacoma

"...people say they need to express their emotions I'm sick of that. Photography doesn`t teach you to express your emotions it teachs you to see."
Berenice Abbot

Tacoma

Tacoma

Tacoma

Tacoma

After Lee Friedlander saw Charlie Parker play with Nat King Cole on the piamo he said "I was dumbfounded. I somehow knew exactly where he was coming from. He made me understand that anything is possible."

Stalled Series

Stalled Series

Stalled Series

Stalled Series

I'm reading Liars Poker by Michael Lewis. It's a book about Soloman Brothers bond traders in the go-go 80's. The book chronicles the bond trading floor and has many similarities with the greed on Wall Street that brought the world's economy to it's knees yet again...one quote used in their training stood out to me - "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king".

This will be the first in a series of photos of a stalled housing development a short walk thru the woods from my house.

"One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are."
Minor White

"What's in store for me in the direction I do not take?"
Jack Kerouac

Paul Giguere has a great series of interviews and podcasts on what it means to live, in his words, a photographic life ...

http://thoughtsonphotography.com/

"Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear, the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning."
Robert Adams

"I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn."
Pablo Picasso

"If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up."
Richard Avedon

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
Albert Einstein

""Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."; And then do it. .""
Duane Michaels

The camera can photograph thought. ~Dirk Bogarde