Donald Byrd, “Byrd in Flight”
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It’s like having a 1963 Panisonic Bluetooth Speaker
I purchased this old 1963 AM/FM tube radio a few years ago. I originally intended to use it in my garage/letterpress studio/man cave. Very retro, and very cool to listen to a baseball game on AM radio – Go, Giants! The wood case was pretty rough and the speaker cloth was stained and need to…
Social Distancing
They refused to wear masks, but were okay with maintaining social distancing For my birthday Anita likes to take me on an extended weekend excursion. Not this year, not with all the Covid restrictions. Like many people, I’m lucky that my job allows me to work from home. The downside to working at home is…
Yosemite Winter 2014
Oh how I miss our weekend roadtrips. Not much of that happening in 2020-21. Here is a look back at a trip to Railtown 1897 State Historic Park. Great photo oppornunities, and trains are a favorite photgraphic subject of mine. If I remember correctly, we were there on a week day in September of 2011.…
Railtown 1897 State Park
Oh how I miss our weekend roadtrips. Not much of that happening in 2020-21. Here is a look back at a trip to Railtown 1897 State Historic Park. Great photo oppornunities, and trains are a favorite photgraphic subject of mine. If I remember correctly, we were there on a week day in September of 2011.…
My OM-10 Days
The OM-10 launched in June of 1979. It was the camera I took with me to college. Documented life in the dorms. Other than taking happy snaps I wasn’t much of a photographer. When I stepped on to the campus I was a business major. Biding my time till I realized I wanted to be…
Poster-A-Week Revisited
There are times as a designer that I have not felt creatively challenged. Sometimes the projects at work just don’t allow me to push the envelope. Sometimes the clients are not ready for it. And sometimes I may even doubt myself. A few years back I may have found myself in one or all of…
Bodie and the Elements
Road Trip – September 2017: Part 2 Part 2 of our road trip was to drive down Highway 395 to Bodie. Along the way we could see that it had snowed the day before. Not surprizing since the we had been in a crazy rain storm on part 1 of our trip. Bodie has been…
Getting Old, and Hanging On
Getting Old, and Hanging On On my walk yesterday I saw a fruit of some kind. Wrinkled and hanging on. Thought it had a story, seemed to be the story of life.