10 September, 2024
A Painterly Puzzle – One-Shot Story
Art is often a puzzle. But the above piece is especially lively fun. It’s my 1×4-foot ink-jet print of Sonia Delaunay’s 3×11-foot 1913 painting “L...
6 September, 2024
Beyond the Frame – One Shot, Six Stories
At photo exhibits, I look for images that especially grab me. If I find one and the photographer is around, I’ll ask if the photo holds stories that aren’t immedia...
3 September, 2024
That Time I Played Art Detective — One-Shot Story
Sometimes, the world is indeed small. In 2015, Kate and I moved from a 1,700-square-foot Cape-style house to a 2,700 square-foot retirement condo with exceedingly high cathedral...
30 August, 2024
The Power of a Pinecone — A One-Shot Story
“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” — Voltaire I fell in love with analog cameras before I became enamoured with the ima...
29 August, 2024
The Tranmere Cross – A One Shot Story
Local history has long been a fascination of mine and there is plenty of it around Merseyside where I have always lived. On the Wirral side of the River Mersey history can be tr...
27 August, 2024
Folk Art on Wheels — One-Shot Story
Anyone fond of later-20th- and early-21st-century automobiles will enjoy Jim Grey’s “Old Cars Parked” columns and his posts on the “Curbside Classic&...
As an avid hobbyist photographer, my journey through the world of analog photography has been marked by moments of surprise and serendipity. One such moment occurred recently wh...
21 August, 2024
Friday Night Lights – The Catch – A One Shot Story
The year was 1981 and I had recently received a certificate of completion for a film processing and printing class at Mountain View Community College located in Dallas County. I...
