Swashbuckling photography was something I thought was relegated to comic books. You know, something for the funny pages – the always on-the-spot photographer, like Jimmy Olsen or Peter Parker – good natured and fun, but definitely talented and hard-nosed when he needs to be. Aaron Lindberg taught me that those caricatures come from real life photojournalists, and that they weren’t derived from comic strip frames. (Here are some kind words he posted about me this week). (more…)
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The You Sew Good alterations shop was exactly where she told me it would be. Like she’d said, the predominant store in the strip mall was a furnace repair shop with pick-up trucks and vans out front that broke the building’s sight line from passing traffic. The furnace store had a broad sign lettered in a style common to auto repair shops – navy block letters on a white backdrop – and I saw F-U-R-N-A-C-E just before finding the street sign. I pulled blindly down the incline and thought it an appropriate place to find an alterations storefront even after the miscommunication that came earlier in the day. (more…)
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