…a sigle leaf turning red before the others
Continue ReadingStreet Through the Window, 2011, Sunset #20
This was from a photograph I took in February 2011, when my daughter was lying in a coma in ICU. My brothers had come out to help watch and stay with her. We went out to eat at a restaurant called the Rock’N Fish, right up the street from the Manhattan Beach Pier….
Continue Reading(more) Berries, Fall 2018
…these were revealed as the leaves dropped away
Continue ReadingBerries, Fall 2018
…bright colored berries revealed off the fence after the leaves fall
Continue ReadingMechanical Camera
film, glorious black-and-white tone & textures, film, & mechanical cameras
Continue ReadingFall Colors, Red, in Fisheye
There was a book called Visions I found in a bookstore in 1975. The cover was a circle, looking up through a grove of redwood trees. I loved that sense of looking up and having the space surround my view. The fisheye captures some of that wrapped feeling. — spence
Continue ReadingA Fading Hydrangea
the fading colors glow in the sun
Continue Reading…And – Nutshell to The Idea
…finding the spine of the story
Continue ReadingTrees in B&W, 2008
B&W Fuji shot with a Mamiya RZ67 medium format camera with 110mm lens. The detail picked up by a negative this large gives the snow a crystalline texture. — spence
Continue ReadingMore Bios, More Screenwriting Books
I had my main character walk into Louis B. Mayer’s office at MGM. I found she was walking into a blank space…
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