
A Sign For Our Times
A sign of our times outside a club in Orange County, California. #FineArtPhotographyLosAngeles #OrangeCounty #SouthernCalifornia

Walker Evans, "My task... is, before all, to make you see."
This is a Walker Evans photograph taken in the winter of 1938 as he rode the New York subways.Take some time to read the text, if you can, as I believe the work of this photographer and his friend the great american writer, James Agee can help us deal with the America we live in today. This is from the book "Walker Evans edited by Clement Cheroux" copyright 2017 Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Prestel Verlag, Munich. London, New York. I have included part of the text below from t

"The Most Interesting Man"
Times are getting tough for "The Most Interesting Man in the World" Sad!! #LosAngelesPhotography #SouthernCalifornia #FineArtPhotography

Stains
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How to Sell Art
John Baldessari, an artist/painter and educator has given us some helpful advice with this painting and if you stick to these simple rules you will enhance your chances of making a living from selling your work. #FineArtPhotographyLosAngeles #SouthernCalifornia #OrangeCounty

2017 ECLIPSE, Huntington Beach, CA
About a year ago I started thinking about flying to Charleston, S.C. to see the eclipse pass over the city and fly out over the Atlantic Ocean. As I began to look into the project I learned that hotels in the area started booking out in 2009. There went my three for one idea... see the total eclipse, see my brother who was willing to meet me in Charleston, and hit a few of the finest restaurants in the city. I was bummed. I'm a photographer so a week or so ago I started looki

AMERICAN BEAUTIES
Bikini Contest, Orange County, California: First, second and third place winners. #FineArtPhotographyLosAngeles #OrangeCounty #SouthernCalifornia

The Good Old Days
So, you're twenty, thirty, maybe forty years old and you hear the old folks talking about the "Good Old Days". You think, yeah, they're always talking about the good old days. But what if it was that rare time in America when our hopes and dreams could actually be realized? #FineArtPhotographyLosAngeles #SouthernCalifornia #OrangeCounty

The Legacy of Mao Tse-tung
I took this photograph in Beijing, China a few years ago and I saw it again on the news last week. Everything looked exactly as it did when I was there. The buildings, fences, signs, etc. are centered, lined up, controlled. Behind me were several hundred people scurrying around in Tiananmen Square. I thought it unusual that so many people in one place could be so quiet. Reverence was in the air. Mao Tse-tung was an autocratic leader and since discussions abound in the news an

A Narrative in a Single Photograph
I have a rule to only place current work on my blog but as the saying goes: "Rules are made to be broken". I'm posting a photograph from 2004 that may resonate with some people, especially today. #FineArtPhotographyLosAngeles #SouthernCalifornia #OrangeCounty