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Monday, October 20, 2008

The Beginning of a New Season

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, 2008. Photo: David W. Sumner It was a busy Summer. Now as Fall closes in I’m looking forward to start...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Losing a Friend

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River of Mud by Jane Grossenbacher ©Jane Grossenbacher A wonderful photographer and my dear friend for many years, Jane Grossenbacher, ...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

The Wild West at the Beach

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In 1902 Buffalo Bill brought his famous Wild West show to San Francisco. There exists a fairly well known photograph of Buffalo Bill and 1...
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Sunday, July 6, 2008

An Artful Act

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Yesterday's entry was inspired by a passage from Issa's book, Oraga Haru : "Without lifting the foot, he arrives. Without movi...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008

A Thoughtful Act

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Art and thought, there is nothing more. All art is the expression of thought. Thought inspires and motivates one. Thought sustains one. With...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

My 2 Cents on Fill Flash

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I’ve always tried to avoid using flash, but often I wish I had just a little boost to diminish shadows. I usually use reflectors, but that m...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

I Have A Dream

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I have a dream... This is what it would take to get me into digital photography: An FM2 body with an FX sensor. Same center-weighted meter, ...
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David W. Sumner
In 1988 David moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to begin his career in photography, taking a job as a photo researcher at Mountain Light Photography. Since then, in addition to freelancing, he has worked as a studio/darkroom assistant, print finisher and in the late 1990s was Picture Editor at StageImage. For the past several years he has focused on personal projects documenting the social context of the urban environment. He lives in Reno, Nevada with his wife, the painter, Anna Conti.
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