Public Alley 4--
Boston, MA
On the Edge
Boston, MA
Neglected
Newton, MA
Plucked, Part 1
&2
Boston, MA
Ten Speed &
Brown Shoe
Boston, MA
Near Miss           
Cambridge, MA
Pump
Manchester, NH
No Parking
Manchester, NH
Rear View Mirror
Manchvegas, NH
Through his Eyes
Natick, MA
Fence Me In
Boston, MA
Trio
Boston, MA

Alleys in Boston are
brimming with Lost Soles
just begging to be
discovered as this silly man
was.
At some point, I'll create a
section on how Soles
become Lost. I reckon this
is just one of the ways...
He was about to step up on
the sidewalk when ... a
glowing beam from an
alien ship sucked him up?
I don't get it. I try. But I
don't.
And the aliens set him
back down in this alley
where he proceeded to lose
his OTHER shoe.
The aliens agreed, after
observing the barefoot
man running screaming
through the streets of
Boston, like so many
Charlies had done before
him, that any further
searches for intelligent life
from the oddly hairless
bipeds were aimless.
This was my first shoe
captured in a city. Its twin
was found just across the
way (its photo is on this
site somewhere).
While photographing this
kid, a young woman in a
small SUV pulled up in
front of me and was
chatting on her cell phone.
Finally, she rolled down
her window and asked
what happened.
I'm the wrong person to
ask, I think.
I promise that this simple
faux-leather pump never
looked quite as beautiful
on a human as it does in
this picture.
Nor would it ever have
caught my eye had it not
found itself abandoned,
along with two unrelated
shoes on the side of the
road in Manchester.
This shoe's last stand was
against the ungainly
authority of a city bus in
the wee hours before some
natty street-sweeper
whisked it into its brittle
bristles, carrying it to its
final destination among
man's limitless piles of
refuse.
A publisher once told me
that my photos have no
point of view. I don't know
what that means but I'm
trying to figure it out.
How about this? Is this a
point of view? I don't
know, but it's cool.
Lost Soles