I knew his son, Ariel, before I knew Jovino Santos Neto. Ariel was a student, in 1999, in a prestigious program, the Urban Newspaper Workshop, conducted by The Seattle Times, where I worked at the time. During the grueling interview session for the workshop, Ariel mentioned that his father was a jazz musician. I knew …
Category: Photography
Treats from the Olympic Peninsula
I keep kicking myself because I waited until about nine months ago to care about exploring my own backyard (again). As I have, I keep realizing that I've been to all these places before -- with my Mom and Dad or the Boy Scouts -- and looked at things differently. Nowadays, I see things in …
Performance Art: Jazz
I met a mother of a jazz drummer last night during the amazing performance by Thomas Marriott and Joe Locke at Tula's and, as I was explaining my enthusiasm for photographing artists in performance, realized that a lot of my jazz work is not present on this blog. So I'm rectifying some of that. (NOTE: …
The “Moses” Sunset
Yes, I have the bug. Call it sunset-itis. A few weeks ago, I was showing some friends (all professional photographers) around Seattle and they could not stop marveling at the light. After all, light is almost all a photographer cares about. Since we have almost constant marine layer in Seattle, even during the dead of …
The Buzz: Glenn Nelson 