Balloons Part 2

Beth Hoeckel


Chikara Umihara, Untitled from Aggressive Girls


Dorthe Alstrup



Thomas Alleman


William Lamson, Icicle Intervention, Victor, Idaho


Youngna Park, Balloons, Midtown Manhattan

William Lamson's "Emerge"

First day of spring and all I can think about is how soon I can get back to summertime in the Upper Peninsula. William Lamson is one of my "art crushes" (term courtesy of Nate Larson) and although I don't know where this video was taken, everything about it reminds me of my day last August at Whitefish, Michigan on Lake Superior.

It's That Auction/Raffle Time of Year Again

I used to work at the Houston Center for Photography and the print auction was the biggest fundraiser. Unfortunately, it was a little too easy to purchase artwork for one's personal collection rather than observing everyone else empty their wallets (although I have no regrets in acquiring Abandoned Car from Lori Nix's Accidentally Kansas series).


Each year I receive an email from HCP advertising their next auction, I will admit to checking out the inventory to see if I can purchase a Ruth Thorne-Thomsen print like the one I no longer have (Dot Lady, WI, 1983).




No Thorne-Thomsen this year but had I all the money in the world, I would walk away with William Lamson's Horizon, 2009.



What all this really amounts to is that I'm procrastinating making my print for the Society for Photographic Education raffle that I was asked to donate to this year. What image you ask? Surely a cake but which one? Someday I hope to get over my fear of auctions (i.e. rejection) and not endlessly sweat over whether or not I will be giving away something that someone else deems desirable.