I started yesterday reposting to my photography-centric Instagram account (@darkroomdetritus) a link to a blog post and photos from a rally I attended at the Minnesota State Capital on March 6, 2022. The rally’s theme?…
I don’t recall ever being against the idea of New Years Resolutions, although I usually chuckled (sometimes not just to myself) at the boldness of some made by friends and acquaintances. You know, the ones…
I hung my US flag today (or posted, rather? Y’know, sticking it on the aluminum pole that came with the bracket thing one bolts to the house) as I do any Fourth of July these…
I posted recently to Grainery, the sorta new photo-sharing platform, for the first time in a long while. I opened the account about seven months ago as I, along with many Instagram users, had grudgingly…
When the news broke Monday that Noma, the Michelin three-star restaurant and repeatedly listed as “Best In The World” was closing its doors at arguably the height of its powers, I shrugged. As someone who started reporting…
Writing about one’s efforts fiddling with aging cameras and the film that goes in ‘em seems like a trivial exercise lately. Here in the US within the last month, we’ve had two mass shootings—both committed…
This is Kevin. The family and I met him while out walking during the late-morning hours of the last Monday in April (yeah—time has warped even more since then). A man rode by on his bike…
On Thursday, April 23, as we wrapped the third week of “distance learning” in our house, Gov. Tim Walz announced that schools would be closed for the remainder of the school year. That was a…
This is Don. While I was out for a walk with my wife and daughter last week, we saw this vehicle parked at the side door of a house we were passing. It was something…
This is Shelby. She cheerfully rang me through at Mississippi Market this past Tuesday. She is one of the “essential” workers (along with the others at the market I saw that day stocking shelves, helping…