A Navy Tour
Photos shown here are selected examples for a project called "Navy Tour." These frozen bits of time played before my camera from 1966 to 1970 when I served as a Navy photographer. An on-going project to decorate California Veterans Homes unexpectedly brings memories to light. Below, I've organized images into location-based galleries that follow my Navy travels. Over the years, these old negatives have called to me like whispering ghosts from closed boxes and dark places where they've languished for 40 years. It’s as if my old photographs have something they wish to say. I say, let them speak.
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Once I discover Haight-Ashbury it becomes a favorite photographic destination. My short Navy hair and camera spooks the Hippies who assume I’m an undercover policeman. I’m mistrusted and given a wide berth by suspicious Flower People. This probably saves my chromosomes from destructive encounters with sex and drugs. This flute player is especially paranoid when he notices my lens pointing his way. I was only able to snap a few shots before he fled in terror.
