banana slugs, butano state park

I haven't been feeling too inspired lately so here are a couple of banana slugs i shot in northern california last September... each one of these guys is about 8 inches long.

B&W vs Color Debate Is No Debate At All

In 2015, Leica released a beautiful, ridiculous ad. It was for a special product in their lineup; a digital camera that only takes black and white photos.The clip itself is strangely compelling. Set to hypnotizing black and white patterns, a ca…

In 2015, Leica released a beautiful, ridiculous ad. It was for a special product in their lineup; a digital camera that only takes black and white photos.

The clip itself is strangely compelling. Set to hypnotizing black and white patterns, a calm voiceover says B&W is purer than color. The hyperrealism of color, it points out, isn’t just overly crass, it’s unnecessary. Color is an aid for people without imagination: “In the color world, there’s no space for dreams.”

Of course this is wrong. If anything it’s the other way around: color is actual, we don’t see in monochrome. Insisting on black and white is often a pretentious turn. Leica’s ad rehashes one of the oldest debates in the history of photography: Which is better, black and white or color? The two do different things, the debate is fruitless. However, it helps to know about this *controversy* in order to understand how we and photography got here... read more

friendliest looking goat ever - escondido, ca

friendliest looking goat ever - escondido, ca

saturday in valley center, ca

We took a drive out to valley center so An could ride this very sweet tennessee walker. she might have been the nicest horse we've ever met.

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Scenes Unseen: The Summer of ’78

2,924 Photos of NYC Parks Found After Being Forgotten for 40 Years

 

 
 

A conservancy official in New York City was cleaning out an office in late 2017 when they came across two cardboard boxes. Inside were 2,924 color slide photos of NYC parks, shot in 1978 and then forgotten for exactly 40 years.

The photographers were captured by New York Times photographers in parks across the city between August and November 1978 at a time when the press corps was holding a labor strike. Then-Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis decided to hire eight temporarily-unemployed Timesphotographers for the documentary project...read more here