to say the names of things

"God is present and will be present. All of us have heard, or in some way experienced, a call. It may have been a voice in the night or a dawning awareness, a lifelong inclination or an epiphany impelling us to change how we live altogether. How we respond to that call is manifested in our lives as artists. I like to think that what we do and what we make are ways of saying to God, 'Here I am. I am present, too.'" [Mark Jarman, in an article in Image]

Listening to a lot of Hello Shark this weekend.

These—the perfect road trip snack.

[from a trip to Boston, earlier this year, Honeywell Pentax, 35mm]

on turning

My friend Heather, in her Boston apartment earlier this year.

And Joel Meyorwitz, answering the question: What do you look for in a photograph?

"It's a merger of what's inside your head and what's outside your eyes, and finding a way to synthesize that experience—because what's inside your head isn't something that you have predetermined you want to have. It's a notion of what's satisfying, what fills you up. I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it—stones and buildings and trees and air—but that's not what fills up a frame. You fill up a frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. It's full because you're there, because you carried a lifetime of impulses with you that direct you toward the clear sky behind you. You don't know why, but you turn to it."

[Honeywell Pentax, 35mm]

north shore sunset

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Us three girls went on a coastal drive to find the sunset on our last evening in Boston. We never really found it, I suppose you could say, but the drive was the best part anyway: listening to music with the windows down and humming our way through quintessential New England towns.

Massachusetts, I like you.

[all film photos from a stop we made along the drive]
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boston commons

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 A few film shots from my time in Boston last week with Emma, Michael, Heather, and Tom. Such a wonderfully small-feeling city. It was rainy and cloudy all day, so we spent most of our time going in and out of coffee shops and bookstores.

A few favorites from the day:

+ Paris Creperie - Michael found us this little Parisian creperie in Brookline. Emma and I shared a brie, apple, and cinnamon crepe. I used to think I didn't like crepes, but I don't think that anymore.

+ Brattle Book Shop - A used bookstore ("one of America's largest and oldest") near Boston Commons with an outdoor section in the alleyway. Bought a beautiful mustard yellow 1954 copy of Fear and Trembling for a dollar!

+ Black Ink - A wonderful little paper and "unexpected necessities" shop in Harvard Square with lots of Weck jars and letter-pressed cards.

+ Clover - A locally-sourced food truck near Boston Commons. Tom bought some beer-battered bananas and let us all have a bit of those tasty little things.
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