Turning the Car Around kaimcbride.com/posts/turnin... I think every photographer can relate to this scenario. You’re driving along and spot something up ahead that looks intriguing. You split your attention between the road and the rapidly approaching scene. [click to read more]

Canon Selphy Dye-Sub kaimcbride.com/posts/canon-... New Way to Make Prints As our new studio building neared completion, the first new purchase I made for the studio was this tiny Canon Selphy dye-sub printer. [click on post for the rest]

Bill Wurtz’s History of Japan is the most entertaining history of anything I have ever seen. [kottke.org]

New classes just posted at StrudelmediaLive for Winter 2026, including two of mine. Repetition as Practice: A Year of Deep Observation strudelmedialive.com/classes/repe... Mastering the Lightroom Print Module strudelmedialive.com/classes/mast...

If you come to Santa Fe, visit me at my new job at photo-eye books! Thursday to Saturday 11am-5pm.

The male tarantulas are on the move. Looking for love. This one came through the yard this afternoon. Did quite well walking upside down on this rock.

Santa Fe, 2025-09-29

Opuntia and flower

Twilight on the corner of Cielo and Cerrillos. Santa Fe, NM

Campsite, near Conejos River in Colorado

Monsoon Season in New Mexico means plenty of thunderstorms rolling through on the regular. This one is from last night.

Mullein with beaded dew. They call it a weed here in NM but I love the way they sprout up in our yard and shoot up their tall flower stalks.

Work shirt drying in the sun.

Anthill + Underground cable marking flag taken yesterday. Love the confusing perspective and the NASA-moon-landing aesthetic.

Morning light for long shadows. Saw blade teeth and cactus needles.

Found Still Life: Bird hit the mirror at the outhouse this morning and landed like this in the sink.

The venerable vehicle roof as tripod stand. Good enough for Ansel, good enough for me.

Happy Humpstice (Hump + Solstice), when the sunrise aligns with the hump each year. This was at 5:57 this morning.

Photography folks, here is a little something to start your Saturday — Janelle Lynch on the art of noticing. Enjoy!

Stretched out in the hammock on the porch with my copy of @craigmod.com “Things Become Other Things” that arrived in the post this morning. Ready to dive in. (learned about Craig Mod a while ago from @kottke.org —thanks!)

False Horizon at Dawn

Branching and Tendrils, organic and otherwise.

Headlamp at 5am with fresh wet snow.

Happy Easter (Bunny)

Hashtag-Signs-of-Spring: Bringing the Underwood out on the porch for some barefoot typing.

Couldn't walk past this rock with lichen eyes and cactus mouth without taking a quick photograph.

Dreamed up a project to try out my new 4-jaw chuck--a toggle switch plate for the 24VDC LED light on the porch. Great to be able to machine square stock on the lathe! 50mm x 12mm 6061 aluminum bar. I recently learned the CAD software onshape and modeled it there first.

Finished turning down the cast iron backing plate. Had to order transfer-punch screws and counterbore for M8 bolts to get the holes drilled. All came together yesterday. Now have a 4-jaw chuck!

The Hump: 6/IV/2025 [sunrise beyond the heavy clouds]

What is it about a slightly defunct handmade sign that is impossible to resist (photographing)? Walker Evans knew.

Saddened to hear of the passing of Paul McDonough—a constant on the NY photo scene for decades and longtime faculty at Pratt—teaching there for over 40yrs.

The Hump: 2/IV/2025 [from the porch with laundry]

I just changed my bsky account over to my domain based on these instructions: bsky.social/about/blog/4... Not sure if that means that the lists that I'm on will now be broken (alas!). If anyone has kaimcbride.bsky.social bookmarked (ha! Doubtful), please change to bsky.app/profile/kaim...

Lot of great shepherds in Roma's book Sicilian Passage, but this is one that I had not seen before.

Hello US readers––we've made a special limited edition hardback of my new book Is A River Alive? It’s only available to pre-order from 60 US indie bookstores & comes with a 48-page @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social "river" notebook. Artwork by the great Stanley Donwood! Orderable here: isariveralive.com

Wary dove fleeing

That feeling on the first truly warm days of Spring when you are driving along and roll down the window and spontaneously stick your arm out into the warm wind.

Walking around town with a small mirror making example photographs for my next Shake Up class. Like this one quite a lot.

Indeed (Kurt Vonnegut)

Ha, Improved Relative Time lets you ditch BC and AD for designations like ABW (After Barbed Wire), BHCS (Before High Carbon Steel), AIP (After iPhone), and ASCR (After Supersonic Combusting Ramjet). No ATSDB (After Trial-Size Dove Bar) tho… (via @waxy.org) [relative-time.jthaw.club]

Finding Bluesky good for curing that urge to see if a certain friend 'liked/saw' a recent post. Most people I know are not on this platform. Majority of my posts are getting fewer than 10 likes. More like a practice of sending messages out into the void. Healthier.

My 1972 Saab Sonnet III basking in the NM sun. Needs a little work (bleed the brakes, adjust the carbs). Hope to get it out on the road this summer.

Santa Fe dust storm with sun-bleached Stop sign.

Mirror-deflected sunlight on the moon

The given reality, the real landscape, is "horror within magnificence, absurdity within intelligibility, suffering within joy," in the words of Albert Schweitzer. —Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez Finished reading this lovely book this morning.

No shortage of cute cactus around our cabin. This one, tucked away in the rocks, was getting a glamour lighting treatment from the sun.

On occasion I remember to reread these 20 sentences on photography that Torbjørn Rødland posted on Triple Canopy. "13. A photographer in doubt will get better results than a photographer caught up in the freedom of irony." canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/sen...

Like shooting stars, these contrails at dawn streak the sky.

Today I was sizing a backing plate for a new 4-jaw chuck for the lathe. Cast iron chips and smoke from the cutting fluid jumping all over. Using the lathe to make parts for the lathe—nice.