Passing Out 35mm Cameras

My students are currently shooting a project on 35mm film. So I came to class like this last week ready to hand out cameras to everyone:

Ten cameras. What's extra funny is that I'm wearing the
same shirt as when I handed out cameras last semester.


Wrapping up notes that day in class.

Happy shooting, class!

Printing James Dean

Magnum Photos recently posted this on Instagram:

Here's the final image:

And here's an overlay of the 2 images:

Fall Semester is Underway!

It was a hot start to the Fall 2023 semester last week. My first day of class at Concordia University was the last in a 5-day stretch of 90+ degree days, so I wore shorts to the first day for the first time ever:

But then my first day at the University of Minnesota the following day was much cooler, so I wore pants as one normally does:

Happy fall 2023!

You Are What You Art

This was found in the window to the Digital Media Art's Printshop at Hamline University:

Italy Trip: Uffizi Gallery

My wife and I got back a week ago from a 10-day anniversary trip to Italy! On the day we left Florence for the coast, we bought early morning tickets for the world famous Uffizi Gallery. Here are some photos:

In the courtyard between the gallery buildings before it opened.


My wife heading up.


Because we were there early, we had many places to ourselves!








"Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza" by Piero della Francesca.


"Spring" by Botticelli.


"The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli.




This room was amazing.




Still pretty quiet as we worked our way through.


"The Baptism of Christ" by DaVinci.


"The Madonna of the Goldfinch" by Raphael.


"Tondo Doni" by Michelangelo (his only surviving easel painting).


"Madonna of the Pear" by Durer.


Rembrandt.






"Portrait of a Young Man" by Rembrandt.


The view of the Ponte Vecchio from the Gallery.
(Our hotel was basically attached to Uffizi behind that construction to the right.)




"Judith Beheading Holofernes" by Artemisia Gentileschi.


"Medusa" by Caravaggio. (I didn't realize how convex it was,
and my wife snapped a photo of me inspecting it.)


Selfie on the way out!

Picasso on Hard Work

There's a good chance this story isn't 100% historial fact, but it's still a good reminder to those in the arts:

North Shore Trip with my Family and my Holga

Last month, my boys and I took my Mom up to Ely and then farther north along the north shore of Lake Superior than she'd ever been before. Here are a few Holga shots from the trip.

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My boys at Black Beach.

Buzz Lightyear Quote