Journal Entries
I try to do or make interesting things on a regular basis. Here are some words and photos about my exploits.
Robber’s Roost with Wayne and Other Scoundrels
Wayne Thomas (one of my grad-school roommates) and I have recently started what I hope will become a long tradition of mini road trips around my neck of the woods here in northern Arizona and...
Ma, Xián, and the American West
I recently joined the Artists’ Coalition of Flagstaff, a group of local artists doing the usual things: they have a gallery in town, there are workshops, studio tours, etc. This week they are holding a...
Volunteer work trip with Grand Staircase Escalante Partners
At some point I decided to try to give back some to the land that I love exploring, and somewhere got connected to Grand Staircase Escalante Partners and their volunteer program. Since Grand Staircase-Escalante National...
Inadvertent Homage to Winslow Homer
The National Gallery of Art has a fun daily art-related game called Artle, in which you get four guesses to identify the artist behind the day’s selection of art pieces. One of today’s paintings – by...
Featured Artist – Sedona Arts Center
Earlier this year I joined the artists at the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona. Several of my tintype photographs are on display there year-round. Periodically the Arts Center chooses a couple of artists to...
The Two Gun Saloon
I don’t always drive long distances over rough 4WD trails to get to my tintype locations. Sometimes there are some pretty cool subjects in my own backyard. The property I live on near Flagstaff, Arizona...
North Rim Tintype Excursion
It has been several years since I made any tintype photographs of the Grand Canyon, and now that it’s practically in my backyard (I recently moved to the Flagstaff area!) I wanted to spend some...
Cathedral Rock and Oak Creek Tintype
In honor of joining the gallery at the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona, I decided I really should make a tintype of a Sedona-area landmark. It’s challenging to find typical Sedona scenes that don’t...
Rafael Fire, Arizona
The Evolution of Fire Management and the Role of Knowledge Back in late 2022 I worked with my friend John Schaffer on another one of his land and wildfire video projects, this time on 2021’s...
Midnight Fire, El Rito, NM
November, 2022, found John Schaffer and I working on one of his land and wildfire management videos, this time in the tiny funky town of El Rito, New Mexico, site of the Midnight Fire earlier...
Art class with 8th graders
I had an awesome morning earlier this week demonstrating 19th century tintypes to a group of very cool 8th graders in Rachel Giterman’s art class at the James W. Rice Elementary School in Phoenix. We...
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
I took advantage of the cooler weather in early March to finally explore Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and some of the surrounding areas. It was a beautiful time to be down along the border...