Day 20 – Bad News, Good News, Great News! – Kindness Matters. Listening Matters. Caring Matters.
Day 20 – Bad News, Good News, Great News – Kindness matters. Listening matters. Caring matters.
I want to thank everyone who has written me, I’ve been touched by all the love and encouragement shown. And as I’ve laid in bed, reading these emails, it made me feel a bit like Huckleberry Finn, who attended his own funeral.
And thank you for understanding that I could not reply. Until today, Day 13, I could not do anything but lay in bed. When I came home I thought all would be easy, but it’s been a tough week since I was released. The hand is fantastic:
The Rattlesnake Story (short and long version)
On Friday, 7/31/2026, I was bitten on the hand by a baby rattlesnake. Within two minutes, I was down. Life Flight came immediately and administered CroFab anti-venom, which caused me to go into anaphylactic shock.
My tongue and uvula swelled up, obstructing my airway. I received 32 doses of this anti-venom before they switched to the less-used Anavip anti-venom made from horses. This seemed to work, and on Monday, 8/3/2026, I was released from the ICU into the Critical Care Unit. I have made rapid progress and should be released tomorrow, Wednesday, 8/5/2026.
Creating Honest Work Auschwitz No. 3 “Honest Work?” What does that mean? And if there’s “honest work,” does that mean there’s “dishonest work?“ Let me tell you a story about honest and dishonest work. I was visiting my son in Ukraine when we decided to spend a few days in Poland. We stayed
Shoes – 1970 Can you remember when you first discovered photography? Can you remember the excitement you felt at finding something that you were passionate about? Can you remember the feeling when you created an image that you really loved? I can. Gull and Moon – 1970 I created “Gull and Moon” at the age
I have many photographic philosophies that I live by, but if I had to choose just one that best summarizes my approach to photography, it would be “Creating Honest Work.” Here’s how I define it: • It is work that I have created from my Vision • The idea was mine, not borrowed or
Do These 10 Things to be Happier with Your Photography
Stand of Trees, Maui Recently, a woman from Australia wrote me and said, “Here I am, almost 84, and still have neither time nor respect for silly restrictive rules of any description.” She made me think about how, when you get older, you have less tolerance for distractions and silliness, or “noise” as I
Vision is NOT About Photography!
When I was challenged to find my Vision over 20 years ago, I thought Vision was about photography. But as I found and followed my Vision, other changes came about in my life. I was not just discovering how I saw, but I was changing as a person. I was questioning more, I was examining
“The Print” by Time-Life When I was a young boy my window into the photographic world was books, and there was one book that I really loved: “The Print.“ It was one of several in the Time-Life photography series that introduced me to the great masters of photography. For 170 years, the print was
I began my photographic life, thinking of myself as a photographer who documented, and showed others what I saw with my eyes. Documenting came with a rigid set of rules and the biggest sin I could commit was the “M” word: manipulate. As a photographer I judged my work by how well others liked it.
