Category: Documentary

  • My best friend Lindsay, who is named after Lindsay Wagner the bionic woman, has always had an amazing talent for walking on her hands… which she has done, more times than I can count, in all the different countries and states we have lived in together. For her 30th birthday we went trapezing in Oakland.…

  • Matilda got this wedding dress for five dollars from a thrift store in Maine last summer. When she gets married she wants to have an all vintage wedding And she wants to wear this dress. Matilda is in the second grade. The dress will have to wait.

  • Here are more photos for the book I am working on with Rebecca Burgess, the ecological artist and writer from Marin County. Her book Gathering Color will teach people how to create natural dyes, for their fiber arts projects, from native and non-native plants that grow in their region. In order for the book to…

  • Christmas has always been my grandfather’s favorite holiday and because of all the love he puts in to it year after year, he has made it our favorite holiday too. It is all about the traditions. Every year all 14 of us roll in from where ever we live and move in to their house…

  • I attended a natural dye workshop in Missouri with Rebecca Burgess, for her book on natural dyes. While the landscape and the plants were definitely pretty… …I often found myself distracted by the other people in the workshop. I know that these portraits will not make it in this book, but maybe the next book…

  • I wish everyday was Halloween.

  • This photo is from my trip to Switzerland in 2007. It was not taken with a Rollei, but a Bronica instead, so still medium format film, and therefore still can be in my Rollei Advent Calender.  

  • (This post contains photos of a skinned elk and may not be enjoyable for everyone.) Life is entirely too short… Death means life… Life means death… Because others die, we get to live. When we are young we can’t wait to be old… When we are old we wish we were young… Rarely are we…

  • The Genius…Tyler Young… is at it again. This time, Tyler‘s Petaluma community project focuses on the Farmers and Artists of Petaluma, because as he says… Pitchforks, tractors and hay bales. Paintbrushes, video cam’s and laptops. From dirt to digital art, Petaluma lies precisely at the intersection of agriculture and creativity. ProjectHERE wishes to celebrate Petaluma’s…

  • It has been over 15 years since my last solo trip to visit my grandparents… and that is 15 years too long. I am very lucky. I get to see my grandparents, who live 2,173 miles away from me, at least twice a year. But those visits usually include at least 12 other relatives as…