Bill from Pro Camera fixed my Pentax and left this behind. Looks like everything's finally working! I've been shooting on Tuesdays and have a bunch of film developed, just waiting for it to flatten out.

"There are a great many other practices that are observed concerning bees. Among those that know them well, bees are understood to be quiet and sober beings that disapprove of lying, cheating and menstruous women. Bees do not thrive in a quarrelsome family, dislike bad language and should never be bought or sold for money. Bees should be given without compensation but if such compensation is essential, barter or trade is greatly preferable so that no money changes hands.

"The practices and observations, illuminated in this exhibition do not even begin to scratch the surface of the wondrous body of information known as 'vulgar knowledge'. This extraordinary field of information is the product of the observation, intuition and understanding of the minds of our species, millions of individuals, over many thousands of years. Much of this knowledge has fallen into disrepute in the recent past, a mere few hundred years, a blink of the eye in our collective history.

"We would suggest that there is at work in this body of vulgar knowledge a form of collective intelligence about this existence in which we find ourselves, a kind of road map of life compiled by those who have gone before.

"Like the bees from which this exhibition has drawn its name, we are individuals, yet we are, most surely, like the bees, a group, and as a group we have, over the millennia, built ourselves a hive, our home. We would be foolish, to say the least, to turn our backs on this carefully and beautifully constructed home especially now, in these uncertain and unsettling times."

From Tell the Bees... Belief, Knowledge, and Hypersymbolic Cognition, an exhibition at The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Today we saw a cedar with a thin crevasse in the bark and honeybees swarming in and out. Imagine the hollow heart of that tree, full of buzzing and honeycombs and the smell of cedar.

From my parents, who are in the Everglades and know what I like.

Bald cypress. I'm pretty sure.

"The ultimate question is to ask: how can I make my photographs do things that it seems they can’t do? How can they do that regardless? That’s where things get juicy. That’s where the fun is. That’s where aspirations enter, where you don’t go about fulfilling your expectations, but about pushing against your and your medium’s limitations.

"You have got to have aspirations to make photographs. Every time someone tells you that 'this has been done already,' you will have to be prepared to respond with 'fuck you, I’ll show you!' Every time someone talks about there being too many photographs, the same: 'fuck you, I’ll show you!'

"Make people want to look at your photographs because they’re so damn good. Not because they’re so ironic or witty or self-concerned or whatever other superficial crap is being peddled so much these days.

"... So ditch your anxiety. Don’t be afraid to fuck up, multiple times, until it’s not even funny any longer. As long as it’s somewhat funny, as long as it doesn’t really hurt, you’re not in the right spot. Who cares if there are thousands of negative holders or folders on your hard drive filled with bad pictures — as long as you have the few good ones in the end?

"Good enough, in other words, can’t be good enough. A good-enough picture, one that looks like it was made to look that way, can’t be enough. It has to become that picture that looks like you were incredibly lucky that you just stumbled across it, even though you spent so much time making it."

Good pep talk from Jörg M. Colberg. I'm not there, but I'm really trying again.

At the Atlanta Botanical Garden, which has the absolute coolest conservatory.

I've shared this before, but not in a video. The sheer length of this book does something all on its own.