This blog began life as an experiment in the spring and  summer of 2008 over on Google’s blogger platform. My posting slowed down in August and came to a halt when someone close to me suffered an accident that occupied much of my time over several months.

I am now relaunching Legible Light on the WordPress platform.  Posts below this point were ported over from Blogger, which explains the  smaller images sizes.

The above self-portrait with religious statuary was made a few weeks before Christmas with a Leica M6, my walk-around camera for days when my old shoulders are particularly weary.

One of the photography blogs was running a self-portrait contest, and I thought – nah.  Then I walked by this window on Market Street.  This photo really didn’t work in color.  There was too much going on and too many different color temperatures: cool shade on the sidewalk, warm reflections from across the street, the fluorescent light from the shop.  And the contest?  At first I couldn’t remember where to submit the file; then, when I stumbled on the mention of the contest mention again, it was too late.