I have no intention of getting married.  Having said that (and hearing the collective sarcastic gasps of my friends who are well aware that I’m retiring on an iceberg in Antarctica with a colony of penguins), if I ever DO get married (insert snarky comments by religious folks who know there’s no holy covenant in the world that I can [...]

I’m not sure if he was ready for his closeup, or who he was, or if he knew he would be the subject of my blog post some 172 years after this photo was taken but here is, quite brilliantly, the first ever human being ever photographed. I am a lover of vintage photography.  I collect it.  I marvel at [...]

We’ve all been there. You go to the social media account of someone (perhaps an acquaintance, a business referral or, in a cruel universe, one of your close friends) and their profile photo pops up and… AAAACK! The photo is so unpolished, so inappropriate that it does a disservice to the profile and the person behind the profile. This, of [...]