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Tag: Playing

  • Wheel of Death

    I believe this wheel is the singular reason that generations of children around my age are much tougher than the kids who came well after us. Not that the latter generations did anything wrong, but if you could survive this you could survive anything. I have no idea what this outdoor “plaything” is actually called.…

  • More Tests & Second Lines

    Second Lines and Experiments I’m reminding myself that many pictures could use a crop or two. I typically try to fill the frame with the subject that I want within the borders of the picture. That’s not always easy. If you photograph sports the subject is moving, and the photographer is stationary. If you photograph…

  • Boxes

    T he next day. We needed coffee. Good coffee. It turned out that a coffee house was less than two short blocks from our hotel. Even better were the people who worked there. The were friendly and energetic. One of them took us to this place, an empty club. Apparently, it was fully functioning until…

  • Down on the Corner

    Changing attitudes, changing altitudes. Sometimes I get bored with my own work. The trick is to keep making pictures. Eventually, the pictures evolve into something different. I get lucky sometimes and options appear while I’m in the field working. That’s the case with this picture. A brass band was playing in Woldenberg Park, which is…

  • I AM A Child

    Sometimes a walk is just the thing that you need. Children need more than that. They need to be outdoors. They need fresh air. They need to play. They need to learn. We are locked down. Most people thought they would live, work and play in the digital world. Sure, that’s occured. The use of…

  • On Every Corner

    Music. I said it before. I’ll say it again. New Orleans is a musical place. It’s often likely that you can hear music as you are passing by a street corner, as I was when I made this picture, that is equal to the sounds you hear in many clubs. Sometimes, the guys on the…

  • The Big Change

    The first picture. No. Not the first picture that I ever made. If you’ve been around Storyteller long enough, you’ve seen my first picture when I published a black and white portfolio of my earliest work. The work was maybe 45 years old. I published the portfolio a few years ago. This is the first…

  • I’m Wondering

    Music takes me everywhere. I live in a city made of music. I live in a city made of ancient culture. I live in a city full of food. They all seem to be struggling. Musicians can barely earn a living. You see some amazing musicians playing on the street. Some are in between gigs.…

  • Everything You Need

    So. I stole the title from a brand new song by Doyle Bramhall II, featuring Eric Clapton. It was released yesterday. I heard it first, on my iPad Pro. That’s normally pretty good. It sounded tinny. So, I opened it up on the real gear. That did it. I used it as the background music…