Old friend (motorcycle)

2002 Triumph Bonneville, my last motorbike. Rode her for 20 plus years, over 65,000 miles. Lost her with Hurricane Helene. 

2002 - 2024

 

 

 

Southern Georgia, back roads, heading for northern Alabama camping. 

 

Travelin' with a friend. Speeding. Pulled over near Plains, Georgia. 2010.

 

 

 

 

Worldwide member (BIR), Florida State Clan.

 

 

 

 North of Dade City, Fla. 

 

 

 

Riding out east. SR 72. DeSoto County, Fla.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two weeks on the road, cross-country, ridin' through northern Mexico. State of Chihuahua. 2003

 

 

 

Magazine article, "Motorcycle Diaries". On the road, Texas Hill Country, Blanco, Texas. 2004

 

 

 

"Motorcycle Diaries", searching for the famed "alien debris field". Roswell, New Mexico. 2004

 

 

 

Cold start. Heading out from a campout. Okeechobee, Fla. 2012

 

 

 

Last ride on the Bonneville, Myakka trails. Stopped, thought I saw a snake. Sarasota County, Fla. 2024

 

  

 

 

Old Friend (camera)

10 X 8 Gandolfi Field Camera, Cuban mahogany with leather bellows. Schneider 360mm Symmar-S lens. Majestic model 1200 aluminum tripod. Field camera custom ordered and hand-built by Fred Gandolfi after a shop visit and my return from England's Medway College of Design. 

Fred Gandolfi, second in from right. Borland Road, Peckham, London.

 

 

 

Over some thirty years we covered a lot of ground.

1976-1977  Black Studio Portraits (downtown studio, Sarasota, Fla.)

1977-2005  Florida Field Portraits (Southwest Florida)

1989-1990  Brazil Field Portraits (Rio de Janeiro - Pantanal)

1997  Garden Portraits (Individual sub-tropical plants outside the home) Siesta Key, Fla.

1998  Cuban Street Portraits (Havana) 

2007  "Mi Familia" (book project of family portraits) Siesta Key, Fla.