If it weren’t for family and a new granddaughter I would be thinking hard about warmer climates. But then there are other issues — alligators, fire ants, mosquitos carrying more serious disease…

Maybe I should just stay where I am and quit complaining.

The printer is just amazing. Can hardly believe the quality. And the paper is as well. The surface looks exactly like the classic archival prints I used to make in the darkroom.

Thank your for your kinds words about the prose and photos Dave. I appreciate them.

For a long time I just let MPIX print my images. They may be the company that fulfills SMUG MUG print orders too. They make classic C prints and they do a great job. But a high end ink jet printer like the ESPON P800 (replacement for the 3880) allows me to explore more subtle and custom approaches to an image. It’s not unlike the difference is performance between working in your own darkroom and having someone else print for you.

So I’ll see how things go especially when I have to order $500 worth of ink…

Thanks for the kind words Brent. I’ll email you about the images.

When I’m quiet it’s because I’m in that empty place in my head — a big, empty white room.

I’ve not shot anything worth printing this week yet. I’ll have to see what I can come up with.

Sabbatical. I like that. Sounds better to say “My photography work is on sabbatical” than “I’m just tired and lazy and don’t feel like working”. My academic friends may not appreciate me appropriating the term and then misusing it though. They turn sabbaticals into crazy obsessive work projects.

I need to figure out what I want to explore with the camera. For now I keep shooting what’s in front of me.

Hello Mike. I was thinking of calling you today to see if you’re free sometime for lunch, breakfast, coffee, something.

Are you trying to say Elaine insults you with lingo and you don’t even know it? That’s just wrong. There are upsides to living in the shadow of 16802 though.

You buy a scooter yet? You know you want one.