I got ahold of these beautiful knives, and tried a few different approaches. I’m still mainlining sexy lighting on black, but I can quit anytime, really. Still wanting to move my focus to composition, so the easiest way for me to force that is to incorporate multiple elements. A really simple composition, but a composition [...]

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As much as it’s changed over the last fifteen years, the Mission isn’t swank. Oh sure, there’s Liberty Heights, or Foreign Cinema, or that one bar where all the Marina people disgorge from limos, and there’s a lot of condos, TIC’s, and “lofts”, but that hasn’t changed the Mission’s dirty, artfreaky little heart. And I [...]

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The day after my son was born, Jackie and I were in the hospital room watching him sleep. A woman in scrubs came in the hospital room and told us that she’s the photographer and do we want pictures of our baby? She was stonefaced and abrupt. I was taken aback, because I thought she [...]

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