Unprocessed film. Boxes of printed images. Old snapshots (and they’re just as disorganized as yours). Framed pieces on my loft floor. An external hard drive. Dropbox files. i-Cloud files. My ideas notebook. 8,135 images on my phone.
All that, but this newsletter is more than me sharing my photography. It’s a document of my movement around the world, through the neighborhoods I’ve lived in, and, yes, even a drop-dead gorgeous sunrise or sunset or two. I’m thinking about this newsletter like I’d think about a magazine (of sorts).
One thread of it will be me documenting 2024 as the year to sort, organize, and finalize my stored-away photography projects that have been sitting it tubs and archival storage boxes since I packed up my (wet) darkroom in 2007.
I’m also keeping a visual record of the Salish Sea.
And I love learning botany through photographs.
I have some pro-tips to share about photographic storytelling, about framing a shot, cropping, about getting tonality right in black and white on your phone, about using my favorite app to stylize your phone photos and clean up old, damaged prints.
And then there is the Holga—the much loved plastic camera.
And I like to write about exhibits I see.
And when that’s all said and done…I am in possession of my dad’s slides from our travels around the world in the late 1960s—early 1970s. I’m cleaning and digitizing them. I’ll be researching back to that era and those places to find context for his work.
Welcome.
