Mouth and Eyes

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

-Samuel Palmer

Best Professor T-Shirt

Reddit just posted something that I'd LOVE to do....

A Quick Test

As a photographer with a toddler at home, I think many of you know what my answer is....

Digi Photo Classroom at Hamline University

We're 5 weeks into the semester at Hamline, and I thought I'd show you my new classroom.

16 stations, an instructor station, and 3 flatbed / film scanners.




11-color Epson 4900 printer station on the other side of the "half wall" to the right in the first photo.


The adjunct office near my classroom. It's a lot of space to share with only 2 other professors.


Another computer and corner in my office.

At my request, some homasote board was put up in the hallways around the Digital Media Arts department around my classroom (which is in the basement so the hallways are nothing fancy). I had my class hang their prints from our first critique last week:

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Presenting: the World's Worst Action Photographer

Five Photo Links for Mid-September

• 1: National Geographic has a new website to highlight their great photography. This is what they say: "FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic archives. In honor of our 125th anniversary, we are showcasing photographs that reveal cultures and moments of the past. Many of these photos have never been published and are rarely seen by the public."

Some images are beautiful, some are historical, and many are both. You could keep scrolling for days. There are some amazing photos in this collection, and many of them are for sale. Check it out here.

"The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge from Yerba Buena Island in 1936."


"Teenage girls in bathing suits and caps pose on a dock in Brandenburg, Germany, March 1928."


"Astronaut Neil Armstrong floats in his space suit in a pool of water in 1967."


"Scientists take samples to study radioactive discharges in the Susquehanna River in Maryland, March 1985."

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• 2: On the anniversary of 9/11 last week, Esquire online re-published an article (first published 10 years ago) about this horrific photo:

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• 3: Hasselblad just opened it's first retail store in Japan.

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• 4: An article from Forbes Magazine about one of my photography favorites: Joel Sternfeld.

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• 5: Two related posts (here and here) talk about the lost art of darkroom printing with some iconic celebrity portraits.

Dennis Stock's photos of James Dean


Thomas Hoekper's photo of Muhammad Ali


Bob Henriques' photo of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (with MLK Jr blurry in the foreground)


Dennis Stock's photo of Audrey Hepburn

p.s. If you're a local, the F-Stop Swap is happening this weekend in Brooklyn Park.

Found While Excavating the Garage

We just dug up the concrete around our garage, and here are a few random things I found in the process:

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Abraham Lincoln on Photography (and Your Face)

This is an actual Lincoln quote. Really. I'm not joking.