GLAUCOMA

Some Palm Springs hotel shots from a couple months back from while there for Coachella. With my Canon SD950 it's almost impossible to get a blurry shot on purpose, and I've resorted to some sort of mystical, impossible-to-repeat set up using the macro feature that somehow tricked the autofocus. It's a nice technique with the right subject, and this retro establishment had a dreamy melancholy that evoked a sort of fictitious memory.

EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY

Weekend trip to Philadelphia, highlighted by this incredible display of decay and beauty.

LEE MILLER

I’d never heard of Lee Miller (23 April 1907 - 21 July 1977) until I saw an exhibition of her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum the second day I was in London. The striking former model from Poughkeepsie, later turned photographer and WWII photojournalist, was something of a magnet for attracting some of the early and mid-20th centuries’ most fascinating personalities, the kind of rich and varied life of tragedy and triumph seemingly born in the right time and place.

Oddly enough, A phenomenal camouflage exhibit at the War Memorial Museum had a small display (above) featuring the artist Roland Penrose’s contributions for the effort during the WWII, Roland being her lover and future husband, she, obviously his muse at that point.