Recently I did something that I had not done in a long time; I put a stamp on an envelope. Since I'm an old fashioned guy, I still like to send out cards for Christmas and Hanukkah and, of course,…
Ever since Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark out there, Americans have been making their way to the Pacific Northwest. This corner of the country evokes images of rugged rocky beaches, lush rain-soaked forests, and snow-covered mountains. But the landscape…
It's a bit of a challenge to think about flowers this time of year when overnight lows continue to plummet below zero and daytime "breezes" create wind chills that do much more than chill. However, February is the month in…
Twenty-twenty-four was a rather slow year for me photographically. I haven’t taken so few photos in a year since 2008, the year after we sold a house, moved 2000 miles, bought a new house and started readjusting to life in the…
July is always a great month, not just because it's the month of my birth, but also because it's the time when Island Fever sweeps the country and happy people everywhere head to that friendly place North of the Tension…
It was two days before the Great American Eclipse and I still had no plans. It's not that I didn't want to see it; I really, really wanted to see it. In Madison the sun would be 89% eclipsed by…
Sometimes unexpected situations arose that added some interest to my job. One of my annual tasks was to photograph the year's Symphony Orchestra Concerto Contest Winners. These young musicians would be performing in that year's Symphony Showcase. The first time…
Christopher "Kit" Taylor is an incredible pianist. That's not just my opinion. According to his bio, he is "hailed by critics as 'frighteningly talented' (The New York Times) and 'a great pianist' (The Los Angeles Times), [who] has distinguished himself…
In the fall of 2012, Johannes Wallmann was hired as the first director of the UW-Madison School of Music's new program in Jazz Studies. When I began volunteering in the spring of 2013, the program was just starting to grow…