As a proud father of two very goal-oriented young women, I’m always pleased to see that quality when I’m out on a photography assignment. I often see it in connection with women’s athletics.

It has been said that alcoholics remember their very first drink, as if it was the day they fell in love. I told this to my wife, and she thought a minute and said, “I can’t remember my first chocolate. I guess I’m okay.” A little doubtful, I asked her to tell me the first…

Leabeth biking her way to Java Jacks, the local roaster and coffee house in Nacogdoches, Texas. It was Thanksgiving Day and She (in a holiday mood) didn’t mind me photographing her. The image was captured with a Leica M9 with an old noctilux f/1

I like Bighollywood… Very good stuff!

Doctor of Science October 2009: The University of Rochester has conferred an honorary doctorate on Steven Sasson, who invented the first digital camera while working for Eastman Kodak Company. Sasson developed the prototype in Rochester in 1975, as a 25-year-old engineer fresh out of college, and received a patent for it in 1978, along with…

As I have been poking around Nacogdoches during the last couple of weeks, I’ve noticed that fruits and berries have begun to ripen on our trees and shrubs. Have you noticed? The plant that really got me thinking was Cocculus carolinus. Cocculus referring to a berry and carolinus, of course, from Carolina, thus little Carolina…