Photo du Jour: France, Paris, 2010. Self-Portrait with droopy friend. You might notice above said droopy friend it says INKI. Extensively brief research shows that this refers to: "Inki is a little African boy who usually dresses in a simple loincloth, armband, legband, earrings, and a bone through his hair. He never speaks, and his usual pastime seems to be hunting jungle creatures."

Costa Rica, Uvita. I was walking along when I felt something pulling me back and realized I was stretching a giant spider web. When I focused I realized I was about to walk into this guy. (gal)

Cait Thorkelson, Willimantic, Ct., 1990. I've always loved this photo. It's both sweet and dreamy. Who knew an above ground pool could look so good?

Here we have an authentic piece of "outsider" art on Playa Hermosa, Uvita, Costa Rica rivaling all the "great conceptual masters". See also http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13564777

On what would have been Billy Smull's 90th birthday, here is photo of him from circa 1952 from N Street, Georgetown, Washington, DC. I assume it was taken by my mother.

NYC, 3 July 1977. It seems that the more things change the more they may stay the same or at least similar.

California, Berkeley, circa 1972. Stella by Starlight in the daytime.

NYC, Washington Street looking south from Hubert Street in what is today called Tribeca. 1977.

Costa Rica, San Jose. On the streets where they live.

France, Paris, 5 September 2010, Avenue de Versailles, Sunday street market.

Costa Rica, Dominical. The sun setting into the Pacific. The colors in this photo have not been augmented or changed although it is underexposed by 1 1/3 stops.

Costa Rica, Heredia, 2011. There are only a million buses on the road in Latin America at any one moment in time. And there are only a million people paying to get on those buses at any moment in time. Trillions of billions of exchanges of money for movement. The leaf cutter ants of our time. Before our lemming moment.

Costa Rica, Uvita. Cloud on the walk back to Cascada Verde where I am staying.

Costa Rica, San Jose, 2011. Limpio & Saludable.

Canada, Quebec, Montreal, Christmas Day, 2010. La Belle Province.

Florida, Sarasota, 2011. Dolphins at the fountain with the setting sun.

Malaysia, Kuantan, 2010. At the bus station, a ticket booth.

Florida, Sarasota, Siesta Key. 2011

California, San Francisco, 1973. A girl plays with her doll on the back of a dead seal.

Italy, Pompeii, 2006. This is a composite of two photos.

Florida, Sarasota, 2011. Here we have a pig that has been killed and then roasted and put on a table and cut up. Of course, it is adorable with glasses, a hat and a hawaiian lei. This was on the street during the "Thunder on the Bay" 'celebration' during which the indigenous native motorcycle bikers of a certain age bring their black leather, tatoos, piercings, and their incredibly expensive hunks of steel and noise together to look at each other.

Photo du Jour: San Francisco Art Institute, 1974. Here is a photo shot with the 1/2 frame camera and 2475 recording film. The film handles the flash in its own particular way and grain structure is pronounced. This is my friend Barbara whose last name I have forgotten and who I know nothing of after that time.

Florida, Sarasota, 2003. Praying Hands with cellphone tower and plastic flowers.

Florida, Tampa, yesterday. Living (dying) in America, Florida Edition

California, Blue Lake, Car Door, 1973.

Florida, Tampa, 2011. Welcome to Florida or The Three Stooges. These are laser eye surgery guys.