Color My Missives

LIBERTY, KENTUCKY. Jerry, the grill cook at Sandy’s Pool Hall, knows a thing or two about serving up comfort too. The lunch counter and pool hall are located in a town whose main attraction is its prison – the Casey County Detention Center. There is only a tenth-grade kind of irony in building a [...]

Even the drive-thru at McDonalds is a show place for teenagers with fly rides.
“Ay man! How come you didn’t take a picture of mine?”
It was quite a different reaction from the day before. The owner of the second car, pictured on the left of the top shot, was dismayed that I hadn’t shot [...]

I spent a lot of time photographing cars in the three weeks. This one was in Key West, in the ‘hood.
“May I ask you why you’re taking pictures of that car,” a woman asked. She held the hand of a toddler who looked on blankly.
I explained that the red color of the canopy [...]

Over the past few weeks I’ve spent no a small amount of time traversing small country roads. On them, I’ve crossed mountains, and visited the ocean. I’ve flown in planes too. I spent a couple of nights at the Ritz Carlton in Key Biscayne, a few nights on a friend’s couch, and [...]

It took some doing on the internets to find a suitable dive bar in the ‘nati. Most of the other bar descriptions I found said things like, “make sure you dress sharp: be sure to wear khakis and tuck in your shirt.” The Comet, on the other hand, served cold bottles of high [...]