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Evening demonstrations at ABANA Conference

June 2nd, after the first day of photographing the 2010 ABANA Conference Gallery items, we strolled through the demonstrator’s tents; where metal met fire to become functional and decorative objects. Additional images from this stroll can be seen in a short slide show here. (click images below for larger view) Leica M8, 50mm Summilux Asph

2010 ABANA Conference, Memphis, TN

Last Tuesday Seth Tyler and I drove to Memphis for the 2010 ABANA Conference. Seth, besides creating very impressive metal work (both sculptural and functional), turned out to be the best studio assistant I’ve ever worked with. We photographed about 120 hand wrought metal pieces, ranging in size from virtual jewelry, to pieces 7 feet […]

Vets Journey Home truly supports our veterans

We have the honor of launching, this very evening, a freshly redesigned web site for Vets Journey Home, a remarkable group of caring souls who offer a much needed, healing weekend to our vets, at no cost, because they know that our vets have already paid. “a unique weekend program for veterans, designed to help […]

New forms by Dan Nauman

Dan Nauman of Bighorn Forge continues to bring new forms to his hand wrought home furnishings. “There is no substitute for feeling the stone, the metal, the plaster, or the wood in the hand; to feel its weight; to feel its texture; to struggle with it in the world rather than in the mind alone.” […]

A warm welcome to Mark and Sylvia Mondloch

Last week I had the privilege of meeting Mark and Sylvia Mondloch of Silver Creek Pottery & Forge. After exchanging a few emails, and a phone call, with Mark, we met at my studio to photograph some of Mark’s fine metal work. Fireplace Tool Set (detail) by Mark Mondloch (click images for larger view) (Slide […]

Traveling back through the weeks that were

Traveling through the last few weeks with thoughts mostly of Ann and her upcoming birthday; which occurred on August 17th. It all began with a trip up the coast to Sheboygan, WI to introduce Jim Proue and David White. I’d thought it would be fun to have them sing and play at Ann’s little surprise family birthday […]

Cedarburg Garden Gate by Dan Nauman

Dan has been quite busy at his Big Horn Forge (we’ve also been working on his website for almost a decade). He had me photograph a recently completed gate for a stone walled garden in Cedarburg, WI. A fabulous gate for a fabulous garden. A gallery of additional views can be seen here. (click images for […]

New poetographs and twitter

A couple days ago the following poetograph arrived, uninvited, to my mind: (click image for larger view) I announced its viewability on twitter and received a request for a poetic collaboration from Parasputin. I went to his site and reviewed the last year’s work; the following poem struck my visual mind: I must say that […]