Author: WmX

I stumbled off the track to success in 1968, started chasing shadows that summer. Since then, In addition to farm-laborer and newspaper photographer my occupational incarnations include dishwasher, janitor, retail photo clerk, plumber, HVAC repairman, auto mechanic, CAT scan technologist, computer worker and politico (whatever it takes to buy a camera.) I am on the road to understanding black and white photography.

father


Technical gremlins preventing me from uploading a photo, the server people, GoDaddy, say “it’s not us”, the webarati disagree, saying the “failed to write to disk” problem is a server side error.
I have been thinking about fathers, found our father’s father’s watch today. Our father died 20 years ago.
Seconds turn into years.

reliquary


Origin:
1175–1225;  ME < OF relique  < L reliquiae  (pl.) remains (> OE reliquias ), equiv. to reliqu ( us ) remaining + -iae  pl. n. suffix
in this picture, Jim Orr, Bill Underwood, Bill, Edith, ferocactus, darkroom, time, light, atmosphere, Baltimore, quercus macrocarpa, Mac, Emma Gray, Saint Stephen’s, 1943, Holcombe, Quincy, Steve Ashby, dreaded Xmas letter, it is all there. All time all the time.