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Thanks to my good friend Kerik Kouklis for loaning

Thanks to my good friend Kerik Kouklis for loaning me a Mavic Air 2 for the upcoming trip to Iceland and Faroe Islands. Stay tuned! #seagulls #sturgeonbaymichigan #dronevideo @kerik_k

Sturgeon Bay, Michigan. #emmetcountymichigan #cros

Sturgeon Bay, Michigan. #emmetcountymichigan #crossbillage #minimalism

Sunset Sturgeon Bay last night. #sunset #lakemichi

Sunset Sturgeon Bay last night. #sunset #lakemichigan #crossbillage

#oak #crossbillage #waterdrops #iphone

#oak #crossbillage #waterdrops #iphone

#sunset #lakemichigan #emmetcountymichigan #crossb

#sunset #lakemichigan #emmetcountymichigan #crossbillage

Blue Moon #crossbillage #emmetcountymichigan #blue

Blue Moon #crossbillage #emmetcountymichigan #bluemoon

Missing all of my Photostock friends this week and

Missing all of my Photostock friends this week and found it fitting that I should come across this negative today. Kind of where the idea for it all began.

It’s the end of an awesome week at the Putney School in Vermont, August of 1981. We are the cool kids at Fred Picker’s Zone VI Workshop and we’ve collected in the common room for one last night of partying, because that's what you do. It's my first workshop and my first workshop group photo. Having set the camera up in the balcony, I hit self time and ran down the stairs to join the group. I wish I could remember everyone's name and find out what they got up to in their lives, but one guy I do know to this day and we've been friends ever since. The amazingly talented Ralph Schexnaydre from New Orleans was my roommate there and man... did we have some fun... This workshop changed my life and is where I met Alen MacWeeney and others who had a huge influence on where I was to go. Once in a while you get shown the light… #scenesfrombillslife #fredpicker #zonevi #film @ralphschex1954 @photostockfestival

Early morning of a cold March 22, 1980 and several

Early morning of a cold March 22, 1980 and several friends and I have spent a long night on the road from mid-Michigan to Washington DC to join in a march on the Capitol. Jimmy Carter is President and he is reinstating registration for the draft in response to the hostage crisis in Iran. With it and the draft done away with after Vietnam, we are all of an age where we saw what happened to our older brothers and their friends. Not excited about going off to the middle east for reasons not completely understood, we are on our way to make our voices heard in the first such anti-war demonstration in many years. None of us was yet aware of what was coming at the Elipse where we would join what would become something like 75,000 of us all learning about protest and power in numbers. On that cold day we all marched to the Capitol steps carrying much passion and even anger, yet not one window was broken, person arrested or police officer beaten. Imagine that. #film #scenesfrombillslife

Happy Dad’s day, Dads! #fathersday

Happy Dad’s day, Dads! #fathersday

Elevator - 36 Gramercy Park E. New York 1982 #scen

Elevator - 36 Gramercy Park E. New York 1982 #scenesfrombillslife #nyc #film

Wandering the streets of New York in spring of 198

Wandering the streets of New York in spring of 1982. Shooting Tri-X on a limited budget, I’m struck by how I would now have 20 different image files of this scene working the problem. In this case, this is the only exposure of the scene on the roll of film. #filmphotography #film #selective #nyc #scenesfrombillslife

Another photograph from 1982 looking out the windo

Another photograph from 1982 looking out the window of the studio where I work. Looking down onto 1st Avenue and the fruit stand below, I remember making this photograph in a humorous attempt to illustrate the need for awnings above the food. Printing the negative nearly 40 years later, I find so much more. #nyc #film #1982 #scenesfrombillslife

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