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A contemplative coffee captured on film by my Leica R-9. Read on. Charles R. Wolfe photo This Journal was essentially an exercise launched during the pandemic, and as a marketing tool for my third book.  After my return to Seattle in 2022 and 2023, I wrote a few additional posts. In the interim, my writing (other than some third-party articles) has been based on Substack, at Resurgence: A…

As a kid, I spent a lot of time traveling alone on airplanes. Two weeks here, two months there, and then back again. I was born in England and moved to the United States when I was 12 years old after my parents split up. Like a pingpong ball being lobbed across the ocean in slow motion, I bounced back-and-forth internationally several times a year between my family. Two weeks here, two months…

When this happens, normally I grab a coffee to help get the ideas flowing, but for the last few days in Montreal, no one’s been allowed to drink the water due to a bacteria leakage, which also means, no coffee. Tiny women carry amazingly large bags, twice their eighty-pound weight. Some of the women carry babies in slings around front. A good adult picker can harvest over two hundred pounds of…

Nice people, nice places, great thinks to do and good coladas. Planning our trip, we had two flight options from Cape Town – either direct on Air Mauritius or via Joburg on SAA. Flying direct with Air Mauritius meant that we would leave Cape Town in the afternoon and arrive at our hotel in Mauritius past midnight. History The island of Mauritius was first discovered by Arab sailors, at some time…

Mauritius was a very good trip. Nice people, nice places, great thinks to do and good coladas. Planning our trip, we had two flight options from Cape Town – either direct on Air Mauritius or via Joburg on SAA. Flying direct with Air Mauritius meant that we would leave Cape Town in the afternoon and arrive at our hotel in Mauritius past midnight. History The island of Mauritius was first…

When this happens, normally I grab a coffee to help get the ideas flowing, but for the last few days in Montreal, no one’s been allowed to drink the water due to a bacteria leakage, which also means, no coffee. Tiny women carry amazingly large bags, twice their eighty-pound weight. Some of the women carry babies in slings around front. A good adult picker can harvest over two hundred pounds of…

A concept vehicle or show vehicle is a car made to showcase new styling and/or new technology. They are often shown at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not be mass-produced. General Motors designer Harley Earl is generally credited with inventing the concept car, and did much to popularize it through its traveling Motorama shows of the 1950s. You…

Two new retrospective galleries about portraits and cars/bikes. These are pictures I’ve taken since few years. All images are under copyright © Laurent Nivalle

I’m glad to present you my pictures in the lastest OffScreen Magazine issue N°22. This article is about my trip in California in 2013.

When this happens, normally I grab a coffee to help get the ideas flowing, but for the last few days in Montreal, no one’s been allowed to drink the water due to a bacteria leakage, which also means, no coffee. Tiny women carry amazingly large bags, twice their eighty-pound weight. Some of the women carry babies in slings around front. A good adult picker can harvest over two hundred pounds of…