Human convergence at a grocery store… He had stationed himself in front of a Grocery Outlet discount supermarket on Bayshore Boulevard in San Francisco. I had just stopped by for some Dr […]
Wheel chair blue
A priestess of the check-out line
Respect the snack champions… Life is balance, popcorn a paltry modern offering to Demeter and the famished New Microwave Gods… (San Francisco, California, February 2018. See my other work here and here.)
The decent thing on Ocean Avenue
We’re built this way, thankfully… A few weeks ago in San Francisco, I had just left my favorite comics shop and was in my car about to turn south onto Ocean Avenue […]
Goodbye, Rachel
A short, very unofficial sequel to “Blade Runner”… “The river of the world is wide, but its waters are boiling away” kept going through my mind as I sat next to her […]
Reflection in a Japanese restaurant
Surreality was on the menu… I often look into mirrors to view worlds we don’t normally see. This woman in my world, for example, at the next table over in a Japantown […]
American dreaming
The weary king of a used garment nation… An older gentleman dozing in his van while a summer breeze animates an American flag and the late morning sun illuminates the multitude of […]
The kitten, the junkie, the dog, and Steven
Extremes enrich an abundant life… In my chosen profession there are extremes which exist outside of me and are mine (or yours) to take or leave. The world is ugly, and the […]
Waiting at the Mark Hopkins
See in his face what you will… Yesterday I photographed a luncheon for a San Francisco lawyers’ group in the Peacock Court at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. During a down moment I […]
Roll the beach
An ode to erosion control… Sometimes when you drive by the beach you see big bastard machines and boys on skateboards and you don’t know if
Jasmine and Buddy
The streets don’t care if it’s the 4th of July… She was sitting on a Japantown sidewalk, on Webster Street around the corner from Nijiya Market. She looked displaced, like a woman […]
