Remember that song from the ’80s by Yes? “Owner of a Lonely Heart.” When I heard that as a kid, I misheard the lyrics. I was convinced they were singing about the “owner of the lonely horse.” (I also thought Starship “milked this city.” I was wrong.) It was not until I was nearly [...]
A lot of text, lately, on this blog, so I’ll keep this brief. This is a picture I took after some rain in downtown San Francisco. This is Maiden Lane, near Union Square, a stretch of high-end boutiques and shops. A pair of opera singers used to set up at one end and sing, but [...]
Three interesting holiday visions, caught on the old camera in the last few days.
1. The upside-down tree, a short walk from our place.
Crowning angel:
2. Tom and Jerry’s Christmas tree, a longer walk from our place. Requires a building permit from the city.
Beach ball ornaments.
3. Eighth night of Hanukkah, our place.
Mike and Mary, residents of Lytton Gardens, during the Festival of Trees last weekend.
I am one of the official unofficial photographers at these kinds of events. I also, occasionally, hang frames and move chairs and whatever else.
I’ve run into parades by chance in several places, including a Shriners parade in New Hampshire, a children’s parade through Quepos, Costa Rica, and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City. In the picture above, a band pauses during a parade in New Delhi, held as part of the events observing the birthday [...]
This is Mr. Lu. He is a farmer.
He lives in a village in northeastern China. He has traveled throughout the country but his favorite part is this little valley. His family has been here for centuries. These are his cattle:
Every morning he takes his cattle out to graze, then brings them back around lunchtime. [...]
They’ve made the rounds, but in case you missed them, here are a few wedding photos taken during and just after the earthquake. More here.
Survival International raised a lot of eyebrows–and recharged our collective sense of wonder–last month when it released a set of images of an uncontacted tribe living in the remote Amazonia of southeast Peru.
How strange it must have been for these people to have strangers flying low over them.
The drawn arrow photos reminiscent of the 2004 [...]
PicLens is an extension that creates what looks to me like a javascript slideshow, or, if the viewer adds it to his copy of Firefox or Safari (or even Internet Explorer), can create a three-dimensional wall of photos. It’s kind of confusing until you see it. I’ve enabled PicLens on the Xi’an gallery that includes [...]
Photojournalist Stuart Isett will be speaking at Berkeley with author Navy Phim next Monday. Isett has been documenting the lives of young Cambodian men who came to the United States as refugee children, did not officially become citizens, and now are being deported.
Isett does good work; you can see some of it at his web [...]
Sorry for the delay on the India photos, for those who’ve been asking. I hope now that the FLW project is done (will believe it when I see it), will have time to take care of all the India, Shanxi, Liaoning stuff. As for the above picture, my understanding is that this building exists purely [...]
So there’s a story related to this picture. Actually, the story I’m telling is about the village where this boy lives. It’s the reason why I’ve embargoed all of my photos from China last August. Check Frontline/World tomorrow (Thursday, the last day of January) and you’ll see what I mean.
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