The reason for the hiatus
October 14, 2026
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My visitor stats to this website showed hundreds of visits per week. It turned out that nearly all of these visitors were to my blog.
Were people only interested in my blog and not the photos on this photography website?
Or was the traffic entirely AI bots scraping my words?
Please drop a comment to let me know your answer. I doubt that the bots...
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63
January 21, 2025
The first of my family in Iowa were Sam and Mary (Snyder) Weston who moved in 1855 with their six children, including John. They bought land in Jasper County, Ira Township, west of Newton. The previous owners were Native Americans who were displaced, but returned north to Tama, Iowa. I recognize the violence behind the term "displaced" and regret i...
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Interlude - intellectual property and generosity
September 18, 2024
I took a break from writing blog entries about the circumstances and stories surrounding the particular images from my contact sheets. I’ve been thinking about something else lately, a cluster of issues around my photography.
I’ve been shooting photographs since I was eight and making my own darkroom prints since I was 14. From the beginning, I ga...
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00062
August 04, 2024
In these blogs I’ve looked at particular contact sheets, such as #62 for this essay, and either discussed the background behind the photographs or recounted anecdotes suggested by the pictures.
Contact sheet #62 is a good illustration of the profound depression I had through most of my senior year at college. The photos are mostly of the Cornell C...
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00061
July 24, 2024
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The photographs on contact sheet #61 are from two times in my life. The photos with an “a” in their serial number are of my cousin Cindy Meyer’s wedding reception to Larry Kater. As with most of my wedding photographs, the bride and groom are no longer married. They did have two wonderful daughters together who are now themselves parents. The weddi...
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