September 15, 2003

As Luke so profoundly pointed out to me: "pushing 18 days now without a gloriously technicolour photograph to goggle at".

Yeah, I know. Let's just say that I've been busy. Very busy.

But I owe the world a blog entry, and so here I go. While it's not in technicolor, I've been fond of these two black and white images for a long time. I took them one clammy morning many years ago, while staying on a boat in the Puget Sound harbor town of Olympia, Washington State. Braving the chill and dampness of a typical Washington morning, I remember crawling out of my warm bed, glimpsing outside, and without hesitation, climbing outside to capture the preternatural mood of this morning.

Droplets of dew were everywhere, making the dock slippery, but also revealing the simple beauty of a spiderweb, clinging to the bow of the "Snog", a 1940s lifevessel that had been converted into a small houseboat. The fog and the dew lasted only another hour - giving way to an unusually sunny and warm day in Olympia.

And speaking of black and white images: The New York Times has a fantastic (albeit very long) article in its Magazine section about the photographer Diane Arbus. Most interesting...