while my photographs are under copyright, please feel free to download and print them for your personal use, including showing them to friends or students for whatever reason

I expect commercial users to follow the laws of copyright.

i am a semi-retired professional in boston massachusetts usa - exhibiting photograher since 1986 - numerous publications, especially in collaboration with writers - for many years did classic darkroom solarization - now work with photoshop - love the street and travel

i shoot with a Canon20D, Fuji medium format and occasionally a Zone 6 field 4x5; much of my photostream was shot with a Mamiya Super (i now find the weight of the camera and the several primary lenses is onerous for my advancing arthritis) - i still use the mamiya when traveling abroad to visualize the scene in narrow streets - recently added an olympus stylus 1010 and a 3g iphone to the kit

from time to time in corresponding with other flickr contacts the question of photograpers admired comes up; here is the beginning of a random list:

carleton watkins (no relation)
laura gilpin
don mccullin
danny lyon
ralph eugene meatyard
steven trefonides
edouard boubat
andrew bush (especially bonnettstown)
chauncey hare
and of course the usual suspects: evans, lartigue, brassai, frank, friedlander, winogrand, callahan, siskind, gene smith, tony lee jones --and and and

oh yeah ---- eugene atget

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