Sol LeWitt in 1968 was likely one of the first prompt artists. He would write out a set of instructions and the drawings would then be created by others based on their own interpretation. Who is the artist in this case? Does it matter? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeW...

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thursday night football

CB pauses, observing the shadows I arranged on the dining room wall.

After three attempts I was able to type out my little poem without error.

CB seeks out the sunlight wherever it may be. In this case it was at the top of her favorite cat tree. Abandoned abroad at the height of the pandemic, she came into our lives on a flight transatlantic. ————— I used a lens made from a 19th century design on my old DSLR for the pictorial effect.

Today, instead of walking miles to find more urban abstracts, I lay on the living room floor and looked under the coffee table.

I believe the beaver that did this in November of 2022 was executed by the town the following summer. Now, in 2025 there are two active lodges and a dam on the same lake and the property owners are complaining.

The sunlight filtering through various bottles of cleaning solutions in our garage a few weeks ago. I think I see a face…

I was interested in the shapes and colors here. Sunset Park, Brooklyn - 07/22

I was drawn to the chimney and the strange tilt of the corrugated metal, and the red car ended up tying everything together.

A little bit if chaos in Brooklyn a few years ago.

An interesting discussion on the pursuit of the perfect cup of coffee or as baristas call it, “The God Shot”. Seems like this could also apply to photography and the seeking of the perfect photograph.

A contrast of lines and forms, of light and dark, and of living and nonliving. Also, just a simple picture of a pigeon in Queens, New York

I’m stacking shapes again… NYC

I feel like I stayed in this hotel 20 or so years ago. I can’t remember. Flushing, Queens, New York

I was going for compressed visual density here. Flushing, Queens, NYC

The absence of a subject is the subject. Keelung, Taiwan - 2025

My attempt at a New Yorker style cartoon.

Luna rising - February 10, 2025

United Nations Secretariat Building, Manhattan, New York

Still Life at Denny’s - 2023

Soldiers Newburgh, New York Cyanotype - 2021

Remember the 2014 documentary Monk with a Camera: The Life and Journey of Nicholas Vreeland? Nicholas is still photographing regularly and posting on his blog. nicholasvreeland.com

Walking with an open mind in Boston

Fishing boats in Zhengbin, Taiwan 台灣正濱的漁船

Inbound to LaGuardia Airport.

Boston, Massachusetts

I spent a little while trying to see how many triangles I could coax out of this scene. A bit of a meditation on abstraction.

"And mine's a bubble, not blown up for praise, But just to play with, as an infant plays." George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

A sturdy, almost dystopian-looking apartment building in Taipei. 一棟堅固、帶有近乎反烏托邦風格的台北公寓大樓。

Flushing, Queens, New York - 09/20/25

Queens, New York A Brutalist building with a Modernist twist, wrapped in a visual pun. I like to amuse myself.

The intent here is to flatten this scene, composed of two blocks of structures, into a single vertical mass of lines and forms. I’ve always loved collage, and this is my attempt at creating one with my camera. Brooklyn, New York

In the garage

Municipal waste - Brooklyn

Metropolitan Avenue - Brooklyn

From the Xinyiliantongkong footbridge over Songgao Road in Taipei, I saw a bride and groom posing for photos. Moments later, an elderly woman tripped after exiting a taxi, and strangers rushed to help her. 從信義連通空天橋往下看，一對新人拍照走過，不久一位老婦人下計程車時跌倒，路人立刻上前幫忙。

Here I’m continuing in the spirit of William Eggleston’s Democratic Forest, where each component of a photograph carries equal weight and value. The final work becomes the sum of its parts.

Somewhere else in Brooklyn where a guy can’t find even the smallest hole-in-the wall bodega to quench his thirst on a hot October day.

Somewhere in Brooklyn

I’m trying to take my photography into areas that AI doesn’t dare go.

You don’t need to go to the museum to see a painting.

It was a hot one in Brooklyn yesterday. I liked how the chimney at the top and the signs near the bottom opposed each other.

Architecture in Taiwan is definitely function over form. Keelung, Taiwan 台灣的建築確實是功能優先於形式。台灣基隆

The subject matter is secondary to the play of lines, tones, and surfaces. Queens, New York

I’m trying to reduce the photograph to just shapes and lines like a two dimensional abstract painting.

Boston, Massachusetts