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 [...]

May 14, 2008 More Unexplained and Unexpected written by Steven Barrymore The photographic subjects I image for Images Magical don’t come by accident. I feel that I am directed — not by a voice — but by an intuitive feeling to these subjects. Below are two images, part of the http://www.imagesmagical.com/ Images Magical collection. Two [...]

April 18, 2009 Roll Out the Red Carpet written by Steven Barrymore I walked into the lobby of the Bankhead Theater in Livermore, California with Charlie Chaplin. Mr. Chaplin is alive and well, portrayed by Robert Martin. Robert has been performing the Chaplin character for over 10 15 years in San Francisco for visitors from [...]

Walking On The Earth written by Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D. I recall when I was in my early twenties, I was having dinner with my family and my nephew Danny, who was 14, had joined us. My father had just given a bit of grandfatherly advice to Danny, then quickly followed by saying, “But it [...]

September 06, 2009 Send in the Barking Clones written by Steven Barrymore Is it time to clone your dog? A couple in Florida did it. But it cost them $155K. When their Labrador retriever Lancelot died of cancer they had him, or a piece of him, cloned. Resulting in Lancelot Encore. Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk of [...]

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 [...]