Film Photography

This week­end, I cel­e­brated my six­ti­eth birth­day sur­rounded by friends and fam­ily. If you had told me I would be doing so weeks ear­lier, I wouldn’t have believed you. But thanks to an accel­er­at­ing COVID-​​19 vac­ci­na­tion roll­out, every­one had had at least one of the two-​​dose vac­cines, with most of us hav­ing received both. My won­der­ful sis­ter Kim V.… Read More …

On Valentine’s Day, 2021, a mas­sive win­ter storm pushed across the cen­tral and south­ern US plains, plung­ing tem­per­a­tures to record-​​breaking lows and dump­ing sig­nif­i­cant snow over the affected areas. In the ensu­ing days, grid oper­a­tors enacted rolling black­outs and power out­ages affected mil­lions of Oklahoma and Texas res­i­dents. All 254 Texas coun­ties were affected. The tem­per­a­ture at… Read More …

Between 2018 and 2019 I did some horse­trad­ing and upgraded my Hasselblad 500c/​m to a 503cx. I also acquired a

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 […]