“Square Foot” Blog

  • Five Recent Stereoviews

    Five Recent Stereoviews

    Is there a nerdier branch of photography than stereo photography? (Yes, almost certainly.) Our interest, as a family, goes back a year or so to when we were clearing out Linda’s dad’s room at the assisted living facility. (He’s not dead, he just needed to move to a different room.) In the back of his

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  • Recency Bias, 11/25

    Recency Bias, 11/25

    This is just to note that I’ve selected some images that I shot over the past six months and thrown them into a portfolio called “Recency Bias, 11/25.” For those of you who take an interest, these ten images were all shot on medium format film using either a Bronica ETR or a Rolleiflex 3.5

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  • The Kitchen We Retreated To

    The Kitchen We Retreated To

    Some of these posts will be more for me than for you; honestly, they all are. This one more than most. The end of March marked the end of the uBu kitchen as our own, solitary space. We’ve decided to share it with a second business. These days, Linda’s typically there three days a week

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  • The Wisconsin Humanities Council Needs Our Help!

    The Wisconsin Humanities Council Needs Our Help!

    I’ve written here in the past about UntitledTown Book and Author Festival that I co-founded and lead in its first two years, 2017 and 2018, click here, for example. UntitledTown was, unfortunately, a casualty of the Pandemic. But while it lasted, it was a catalyzing experience for the community. Not only was it the largest

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  • Snowflakes

    Snowflakes

    Sometimes we go to estate sales to see what we can find. Last year, I was in the basement of a home on the far West side, and I found a tall stack of thick three-ring binders. These were filled with cut, paper snowflakes pasted onto black construction paper. That whole basement, actually, was testament

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  • What’s Up with Flood Photography?

    What’s Up with Flood Photography?

    For about a year, I’ve been collecting vintage flood photography. So, what’s up with that? It’s an impulse that I haven’t really felt like examining. But let’s go for it…. I’d say it definitely has something to do with climate change. How could it not? Flooding—either due to sea level rise or increased precipitation—is what’s

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