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  • Down To 48

    From over 1,300, I’ve finally selected the final 48 photos for Twelve Months at Hurricane Ridge. Whew, and thanks for the congratulations. Now it’s time to polish them: straighten horizons, remove dust and spots, and maybe better balance color, light, and contrast. There’s always more work to do. Note that I said I’ve selected the…

  • Fewer Photos And Closer

    Yawn. This will be a fairly perfunctory post. I won’t even take the time to make sure ‘perfunctory’ is the correct word. I’m tired, but I got the next sweep of photos passed through. This is a fine enough place to chronicle that “From over 1,300 photos down to about 200, the second sort of…

  • This One Not Those Three – Fewer Photos

    From over 1,300 photos down to about 200, the second sort of photos from my Twelve Months at Hurricane Ridge photo essay was completed today, February 24, 2026. Squint. Squint. Now, it gets tough. “Digital photos are easy! Take as many as you want!” Maybe that’s true if you want a grand pile of photos.…

  • Hurricane Ridge – The Initial Sort

    “How do you come up with things to write about?” Sometimes it is as simple as noticing what I’ve written on social media. Thanks, followers. Today I posted a small celebration, which prompted a comment, which prompted a reply, which prompted me to get past my aversion to “shameless self-promotion”, all of which inspired this…

  • The First Photos

    The first photos. The selection process has begun. There isn’t much writing involved, but I’ll post about my other book work here because, well, it’s a book. Twelve Months at Hurricane Ridge is finally in process. It will take a few months, but I’ve started selecting which photos will be considered to be included in…

  • Ten Years Of Twelve Months On Whidbey Island

    Ten Years Of Twelve Months On Whidbey Island

    Finally, finished. Or is it? Finally, my ten-year project (that took fifteen years to complete) is finished. Pick a place. Visit it every month for twelve months, and chronicle that place at that time. Next year, do the same, but some place different. Repeat for ten years (interrupted by some realities of life.) Now, the…