Victor Thurman

If you’re seeing this, you’ve been mooned.

And it’s a new experience every time you do.

Mince garlic, not words.

With my beard, I’ve been accused of looking like Kenny Rogers and Kris Kristofferson. With only my mustache, David Crosby.

Only one: the one I’ll never write. I know Thomas Wolfe’s reputation in Asheville NC. I have met people who appeared as minor characters in Bill Styron’s “Lie Down in Darkness.” He is still vilified here in Newport News VA. Those guys would be relative saints if mine were published.

I’m with the banned.

Not just safe, but defended

Funny thing, though — my Pentax cameras are pagan. Every time I take them out they look at minute details of the Earth, staring in prayerful wonder.

Three major religions among photographers: Canonites, Nikonians, and Pentaxians. Sonyism, an Eastern system of focusing on “thoughtful action,” is gaining adherents in the West.