The Magic Trick

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with a sentence. As I lay there a second sentence will come, then a third. Then I can sort of see the whole thing laid out like I’m on a…
by Darin Boville
by Darin Boville

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with a sentence. As I lay there a second sentence will come, then a third. Then I can sort of see the whole thing laid out like I’m on a…

Not only will I write about travel and photography on these pages but from time to time I’ll share my own work. This is The Geyser, from earlier this year. It is a ten-minute video of the Old Faithful geyser…

The first photograph was made with a camera and that camera was probably mounted on a tripod. Tripods—a three-legged stand holding something aloft—predate photography by at least thousands of years. Tripods are depicted in ancient art, as a seat for…