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Words & Pictures & Thoughts

Welcome to a mixed blog.  Mr. Dark courtesy of Jim Kirwan who created him for the Ray Bradbury book “Something Wicked This Way Comes.”  He sent me the image when I asked whatever became of the image that was always one of my favorites, and which I have on a large poster.  The carnival pass is from the LA times story about Mr. Dark and Disney.  Dark’s Pandemonium Carnival is a very good description of the world today, and the task of mixing images and thoughts in a blog . . .

Shoot Your Eye Out is NOT from the movie about Christmas in that imaginary town of American childhood.  It is from Texas Jack Vermillion, A.K.A. “Shoot Your Eye Out Jack.”  A real person from the great foundation fantasy of America – “The West.”

I have decided to remake the blog into a photo page with some various writing bits here and there.  Time to have a little fun with this new media thing from a different angle.  There are fantastic photographs taken with massive sheets of film or $30,000 digital cameras.  The traditional appreciation of the art sometimes comes from there.  But, digital tools and computers open the darkroom to those for whom long hours mixing chemicals and expensive papers and projectors are not appealing.

Mixing photography and writing on a blog is not as simple as it sounds.  Blogs are designed for one ot the other.  So please bear with the technology.  There will be additions of pages and galleries now and then.

Please feel free to comment and recommend your own experience with blogs, photography and writing.  Three neverending pursuits for the elusive muse that will whisper the secret of perfection and knowledge to you.   Possibly only to disappoint with its simplicity.  The Muses have a sense of humor like that you know.

The cameras used are mostly Olympus like the old C4040 and the newer e500 or a little Casio Exilim z1080.  The SW is Abobe or Olympus or Nevercenter or OnOne or others.  The computers are Apple.  Everything else is imaginary.

Phil is a guest author with poetry and fiction every now and then.  It will be in the category “Phil’s Writing.”

Mike Macartney