I'm back to working on the doll series. The show I have lined up is coming right up. Today I enlisted Calvin and Isabel in taking some shots in the backyard. It changes everything when you can see people in the pictures with the dolls. It becomes less about the dolls themselves and more about how we use them. Still, dolls speak to the imagination. There's no avoiding it.

The converstion to black and white was really to better examine the exposure of the photo and the tonal range, but I ended up rather liking it without the garish blue color of Isabel's pants. Black and white though would take me down another road and I feel distracted as it is. I'll have to think about it more before doing more pictures like this.

I'm still trying to sort out the transitional objects and phenomenon concepts from DW Winicott. It may take me the rest of my life. So what, right? At any rate, I'm playing with a new lens that I got at M and Q camera. Joe McCarthy's a great teacher about photography and also very good at negotiating personal space. I think he should teach  medical students how to interact with patients, the way the Tappet brother's can teach them how to take a good history. Cars, Cameras, People--it's about interactions and exchange.