…for this weekend’s printing marathon.

Sharon, Rockport, Maine, 2007

I’ve been editing and prepping files for my commercial portfolio and fine art exhibition prints…

…in the back is a novel that my dad’s been writing free-hand. He’s never used a computer.

Timothy Archibald is a great photographer with a wealth of knowledge that he openly shares. Awhile back he made blog post that created dialogue about making personal work of your family and keeping it beautiful while different from other family work that has been created.

Tim is giving a lecture in San Francisco on October 9, 2009. Residing on the east coast basically eliminates my chances of being there but it’s where I would be if I was remotely close to San Francisco.

I made this photograph in the fall of 2007 while assisting a week-long workshop that John Paul was teaching in Utah. It’s being shown in Daniel Cooney’s Emerging Artists Auction and bidding is open from September 24 (today) until October 15, 2009.

See all of the works up auction here and see my photograph here.

“As a young boy I endlessly explored the fields and streams near my family’s home in Syracuse, New York. Within the landscape I discovered remarkable fascination in seeing water flow gently over rocks and calm winds dance freely through grassy fields.

Although I am many years older now, I continue to feel this way while making photographs today. I aim to communicate these feelings and ideas in the photographs I made while visiting Utah for a week in the fall of 2007.”

More photographs from the Utah series are available here.

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, 2007

In a world where we are perpetually surrounded by negativity, bad news, and tragedy, along comes BRICK CITY, a powerful, 5-part documentary series created and directed by the award-winning filmmakers Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin that “captures the daily drama of a community striving to become a better, safer, stronger place to live. Against great odds, Newark’s citizens and its Mayor, Cory A. Booker, fight to raise the city out of nearly a half century of violence, poverty and corruption.”

BRICK CITY is currently playing on the Sundance Channel. I highly recommend watching the documentary. Think about what change you can bring to your local community.

Things become easier, not harder, when we decide to give back and make change.

I added a selection of photographs titled “Old Orchard Beach, Maine, 2007″ to my website. I was living in Rockport, Maine at the time these were made and would take a day off from work here and there to drive an hour and a half south to the beach. Once or twice my good friend and great photographer, Liz, would come along. We would park my Jeep, each choose a different direction, and begin walking, always with the intent to explore and make photographs.

Path, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, 2007

We had a beautiful fall day this afternoon. So long, summer.

CK Sandals, Southold, New York, 2009

I was up in the Adirondacks last week seeing friends. I didn’t make many photographs but I did make a few while we were water skiing. We had numerous cars up at the cottage and somehow my camera was placed into Mark’s car in the shuffle to pack up and hit the road. It went to Rochester and I went to Syracuse. Yesterday I received it back in the mail. Thanks for sending her back, Mark.

Katie, Limekiln Lake, New York, 2009