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My print Sea Dog Brewery; Topsham, Maine is up for auction right now on iGavel.com as part of an ongoing series of Emerging Artist Auctions through Daniel Cooney Fine Art in NYC.  Click Here for the direct link to the page with my print.

I want to share links to these amazing color images made in the early 1900s by the Russian chemist/photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.  Check out this page to see the images quickly, but check out this page to learn more about the man and his process.

I’d like to share a link to an article I found on the Orion Magazine website called “Making Other Arrangements” by author James Howard Kunstler.  It’s not like I read a ton, but (in my humble opinion) Kunstler is one of the best and most poignant contemporary non fiction writers out there.  If you’ve never […]

Work from The Town and the City can now be seen and purchased through Gallerie Wanted in Paris.  Most of their sales are generated through an extensive online gallery, but they also show and sell prints out of a cool looking space in Paris (not that I’ve been there, but the pictures are cool).  Their […]

Amazing fish, and look at the expression on the kid on the left.

Just another day at the local cannery.

Portrait of a turn of the century fishing boat captain - Pefection.

I found these images on the Maine Memory Network and other similar websites.  They are a visual representation of things I’ve been reading and thinking about […]

I just came across this video about the design and construction of Dennis Weaver’s 10,000 square foot luxury home called Earthship.  I’m having trouble finding out the year it was built, but if you watch the video you can see Weaver certainly was ahead of his time.

I sometimes wish I had become a scientist so I could make things that really benefit mankind.  Check out this story to learn about a huge breakthrough these MIT scientists made recently.  They have figured out a way to use solar power to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen gas.  The gases can then be […]

I just found out my good old friend Seth Turner finally got a website up and running.  He’s been all over the world tramping and shooting in his signature good natured and formally perfect style.  Here’s to you Seth - Keep up the good work.

To those who know me, it is no secret that I am not big fan of alternative processes. It is true that since my introduction to digital printing I have become much less of a photographic purist. But I still have little to no interest in extreme manipulation, or things like plastic cameras […]

These are off a my favorite antique print blog, BibliOdyssey. Check it out when you have a large block of time to kill. A recent post has several of these Civil War era envelopes. Notice the return address on the bottom one.  Wm Ridenburgh, 140 Nassau St. New-York. - No zip code […]