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In September 2023 I wrapped up a trip to three Nordic nations with a short stay in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark. It was my last stop after 11 days in Finland a short day and a half whirlwind visit to Stockholm, … Read More

In September 2023 I was able to squeeze an impossibly short day trip to Sweden’s beautiful capital, Stockholm. I could not pass up the opportunity. I planned a longer trip to Finland for the first part of the month, where … Read More

In September 2023, I took an 11-day trip to Finland/Suomi. This trip was decades overdue, after I planned then postponed my trip in the 1990s. My main comment is this: what a marvelous country. Finland is a country that truly … Read More

My mother passed away on in early February 2020 after a more than seven-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. I believe the disease showed up earlier, but I did not catch it, when she visited me in July 2012 and already … Read More

I returned to Portland in September 2014 after being away more than 25 years. A lot had changed, and the gritty bike bar town I remember when I first came here for college in 1983 had become a destination city. … Read More

Though I permanently left the St. Louis area in 1983, I still consider myself to be St. Louisan. I grew up next door, in University City. During my youth and then over the decades traveling back to visit family, I … Read More

I have lived most of my life in cities in the United States. For me, the urban environment provides an endless tableau of opportunities to tell stories. Cities have souls. They tell tales about the lives of their diverse residents. … Read More

Seattle has emerged as a global city, with unprecedented amounts of concentrated wealth among a small number of billionaires who settled in the city and its wealthy enclaves. The first wave of billionaires followed Microsoft’s rise, followed again by Amazon. … Read More

City of the Future As a native Detroiter, I feel tremendous sadness that the city of my birth and this once great American metropolis has become synonymous with America’s industrial decay. Detroit has turned into a symbol of the country’s … Read More

Photographers and documentary filmmakers have been exploring the theme of manufactured landscapes from nearly the beginning of these art forms. Some of my earliest photographic influences include the work of Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Weston (of Armco Steel fame), and others … Read More