Journal Entries
I try to do or make interesting things on a regular basis. Here are some words and photos about my exploits.
The National Gallery of Art has a fun daily art-related game called Artle, in which you get four guesses to identify the artist behind the day’s selection of art pieces. One of today’s paintings – by...
Earlier this year I joined the artists at the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona. Several of my tintype photographs are on display there year-round. Periodically the Arts Center chooses a couple of artists to...
I don’t always drive long distances over rough 4WD trails to get to my tintype locations. Sometimes there are some pretty cool subjects in my own backyard. The property I live on near Flagstaff, Arizona...
It has been several years since I made any tintype photographs of the Grand Canyon, and now that it’s practically in my backyard (I recently moved to the Flagstaff area!) I wanted to spend some...
In honor of joining the gallery at the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona, I decided I really should make a tintype of a Sedona-area landmark. It’s challenging to find typical Sedona scenes that don’t...
The Evolution of Fire Management and the Role of Knowledge Back in late 2022 I worked with my friend John Schaffer on another one of his land and wildfire video projects, this time on 2021’s...
November, 2022, found John Schaffer and I working on one of his land and wildfire management videos, this time in the tiny funky town of El Rito, New Mexico, site of the Midnight Fire earlier...
I had an awesome morning earlier this week demonstrating 19th century tintypes to a group of very cool 8th graders in Rachel Giterman’s art class at the James W. Rice Elementary School in Phoenix. We...
I took advantage of the cooler weather in early March to finally explore Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and some of the surrounding areas. It was a beautiful time to be down along the border...
In yet another fork in the road in Mark’s long list of “careers”, I’ve decided to give Art Fairs a serious go. Several things kinda clicked into place so that it made sense for me...
Late last year I worked as the drone videographer on a documentary film project about wildfire in the Sonoran Desert. I shared some of my footage with a friend of mine who spotted this one...
Over the past year I have had the opportunity to work on a series of short documentary films about land management as it relates to wildfire in the American southwest. I’ve linked to the end...