April 09, 2008 Title TBD (To Be Determined) written by Steven Barrymore “It had very distinctive features . . . what came into view was truly amazing.“ While out on a 150-mile round trip journey to an area I frequent to photograph subjects for the http://www.imagesmagical.com/ Images Magical website. I stopped at a grouping of [...]

March 19, 2008 Thank You For Being Here written by Steven Barrymore Thank you for having been here. Thank you for planning on being here. When was the last time you thanked someone for just being here? When not writing and working on Being of Life — the Blog, or out photographing images for http://www.ImagesMagical.com/, [...]

October 17, 2007 Who Am I? written by Steven Barrymore SCANNING THE RADIO Late at night, at the age of 17 in the mid-1970′s, I was listening to the radio in my bedroom. MP3 players and the computer for home use were not invented. So our main distraction for entertainment was watching television or listening [...]

January 13, 2008 written by Steven Barrymore photographs by Steven Barrymore FROM THE FILM COLLECTION Taking some time off. The Being of Life articles will return next month. Below are some favorite images from a collection of slides, photographed circa 1980′s in San Francisco. These scenes were photographed with Leica equipment (Reflex and rangefinder). Image [...]

September 27, 2008 Brother Can You Spare $700 Billion? written by Steven Barrymore My friend and I were discussing America’s economic issues while watching the first 2008 presidential debate between Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama, and he asked me if I thought that America is still a world power. I thought for a moment and [...]

May 16, 2009 Bart Simpson Live written by Steven Barrymore The Danville International Children’s Film Festival opened Friday May 15, 2009 with a VIP reception that included Nancy Cartwright, best known as the voice of Bart Simpson. Raini Rodriguez, co-star in the 2009 movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Charlie Chaplin (performer Robert Martin) and the [...]