If I had to categorize war journalists, at least in my experience with them, it would be flawed in all the right ways. Flawed in the ways that allow for someone to do this kind of work year after year, …
Read: The Shepherds’s Hut
Tim Winton is one of Australia’s most highly-regard authors and rightly so. I’ve enjoyed every single book I’ve encountered, including The Shepherd’s Hut. Aussies have a unique take on the English language, so when I get to read a Winton …
Creative: Hot and Cold
Someone asked me about buying a Leica. “Should I get the monochrome or the color version?” “Get the color,” I said. “If you need or want it you are covered especially with assignment work.” If you asked me what kind …
Read: The Coyote’s Bicycle
For those of you who have written or reached out describing how you have a hard time coming up with story ideas, well, read this book. This is a story people, and I mean a story of stories that splinters …
Read: Desert Notebooks
Ben Ehrenreich’s “Desert Notebooks,” proves many things. First, he is one intelligent dude. Second, he’s a solid writer in every way. Three, his references are the most detailed, most wide ranging of any author I can remember reading. In fact, …
Creative: Visual Revolutionary Podcast
Had a chance to talk with Ric Stovall on his Visual Revolutionary Podcast. Anyone with Kind of Blue embedded in their homepage image is okay in my book. This discussion is as real a conversation as I’ve had being interviewed …
Creative: Five Minutes of Mood
I remember the moment when the glass began to slip. In my fingertips and dangerously close to the safety of the counter. A two-piece device, one inside the other but neither attached to anything else but me. Free and floating. …
Read: Of Time And Change
Frank Waters is a legend in these parts, but I found this book to be a bit different from what I expected. Not bad, mind you, just different. Of Time and Change is billed as a memoir, but the majority …