Film Photography

A pair of Oklahoma’s pre­mier song­writ­ers shar­ing a stage should draw a crowd. But if it’s Monday night the week before finals in a uni­ver­sity town, maybe not.

In 1957 a young archi­tect named Herb Greene returned to his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, to teach. Working along­side his for­mer pro­fes­sor mod­ernist Bruce Goff and oth­ers, he helped develop the American School of archi­tec­ture.

My friend RT Valine and his wife Jackie were vis­it­ing the Bureau one evening and we got to dis­cussing food and cook­ing. The Valines live in rural Allen, Oklahoma. When the con­di­tions are right, they have access to wild morel mush­rooms.

My first encounter with the music of My Brightest Diamond was a track on a RED + HOT com­pi­la­tion. During the sum­mer break, my neighbor’s teenage daugh­ter and her friend used to hang out in my liv­ing room and spin CDs on my hi-​fi. One day she brought over Dark Was the Night, the fif­teenth entry in the RED + HOT series.

It’s been years since the Dollyrots played Oklahoma City. But for­tune finally favored the city’s denizens: last April they opened for Bowling for Soup

I took the same medium for­mat gear to the Pastures of Plenty back­stage as I had on Thursday and Friday. I’ve already writ­ten about the facil­i­ties improve­ments to the out­door venue. Unless you care to read about them, I

I took the same medium for­mat gear back­stage to the Pastures of Plenty as I had on Thursday. I’ve already writ­ten exten­sively about the fan­tas­tic facil­i­ties improve­ments […]

I drove to Okemah in early December to see folk singer and song­writer Tim Easton. Easton was on the first leg of a multi-​city record­ing ses­sion for his new album Exposition. After we had lunch at the Hen House Café I took some pic­tures of him work­ing in his makeshift

As most Woodyfest sup­port­ers know, fes­ti­val favorite Audrey Auld Mezera died of com­pli­ca­tions from can­cer three years ago. The Tasmanian native was known for her flam­ing red hair, her wry humor, and her kind and bois­ter­ous per­son­al­ity.

Last Sunday I drove out to the Lawton area with cus­tom leather­worker and hik­ing enthu­si­ast Michael Parham. Our goal was to pho­to­graph the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, and espe­cially the rock for­ma­tion called Crab Eyes, with a large for­mat cam­era. […]