Photo Essay: San Francisco

Photographs of San Francisco on any given day when human subjects don’t figure very prominently, and it’s neither foggy nor rainy nor loud. Captive audience Ecological succession A cell with a view Ideology: binds and blinds Someone’s always watching Smirk Corrugations Explore More

Moulton Barn in the Grand Tetons

My family and I are back from a road trip that saw us from the Ruby Mountains in Nevada, through the Wasatch range in Utah, to the Bridger-Teton Forest in Wyoming. This is an image of the famous Moulton Barn on Mormon Row, which sits at the feet of the Grand Tetons. I arrived at 4:30 in the morning and had the place to…

Unsocial Media

That’s my daughter P., a wonder and a joy. I share this photo because it says something about the importance of the Old Ways. Getting outside, climbing trees, and reading books, analog preferably. As you may know, depression and anxiety have spiked sharply among boys and girls since 2010, but especially for girls—and especially “liberal” girls. Boys and girls across the political spectrum are…

Portrait of a Cowboy

One person will see her husband. Some will see their dad or their uncle or their grandpa. But I see a cowboy, a neighbor, and a prophetic eye. In conversation, he asks questions and works hard to commit answers to memory and to keep those memories—so many of them now—properly sorted. When I asked him if I could take his portrait, he politely laughed…

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