Photo by Kim (After Edvard Munch: “The Scream”)

Edvard Munch, “The Scream”, 1893

Today Kim unleashed her smartphone to document some dental work performed on my own teeth Friday, just something to send on to the kids.  And here is her photo (which I converted to grayscale, as is my wont):

(photo by KAE)

The nod to Munch’s legendary 1893 painting was not entirely accidental, as I had been thinking about it since when just a few days ago, photographer and friend from the distant past, Jim Friedman [1] [2] [3], had sent me on Monday this Instagram piece (attributed to one Jerry Saltz):

No more than three days later, I ran across this report, seeming to debunk some of the conventional wisdom about “The Scream”.  And passed it on to Jim.  If you want to read a “typical” backgrounder of the kind that we have seen over the years, before this recent revelation, try this.

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Bird Photography Done Right

Kim recently joined or maybe is investigating the possibility of joining the local Audubon group of birding enthusiasts.  On her Charlie-walks, she takes binoculars and a bird ID app on her phone and exhibits other birding-intense behavior.  As I occasionally capture the odd bird (mostly crows) on my own photo-walks using a short (i.e., wrong) lens, handholding and hoping for luck, she has pointed me to the Audubon group’s Facebook page where some excellent photo work is shown.  For example, click through on, and take a look at the half-dozen or so images in the January 4 posting at this link:

https://www.facebook.com/BlueMountainAudubonWallaWallaWa/posts/1945471612166785

In stark contrast, this is about as good as my bird photography gets or is ever likely to get: