CINCO DE MAYO

Shouldn’t you know what you are celebrating?  Before you say you are celebrating Mexican independence, you’re wrong.  You are celebrating one of the rare victories of the Mexican army.  S(orry to be blunt, but it’s the truth.)  In early 1862, French Emperor Napoleon decided to take advantage of the American Read more…

Another Lange Photo

So you think you could be a professional photographer.  After all, you take great selfies.  Well, look at this picture by Dorothea Lange.  It’s a mother and her two daughters on the road in California in 1939.  Note the composition, which was not planned, but was instinctively seen by Lange.  Read more…