Matchsticks.
Coole Park Nature Reserve, Ireland. I thought we were going for a walk in the woods, and instead found a hugely important cultural site. #cooleypark #photography

I know what you're thinking. "Did he sprinkle six times or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is from Lourdes, the most powerful holy water in the world, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Thanks Dan! I have a solo show of these photos at Spectrum for the month of July.

My book The Johnny Chronicles is available at The Village Well in Culver City. A real honest-to- goodness book store!

Dawn in Malibu Creek State Park. I visited the park three times in the last 45 days, and each time it looked like a different place. #photography #landscapephotography #smmnra #malibucreekstatepark #sierraclub

#NoKings #CulverCity

Three cowboys at the Bishop Pack Station sorting their customer's gear before loading it onto mules for a seven mile trek into the Sabrina Basin in the Sierra Nevada of California. The rising sun and the dust from the activity cast strong shadows.

Today my artist page at the TAG Gallery went live. It pleases me. www.taggallery.net/artists#/joe... #photography #art #cowboys #loadingdock #shadows

“Who will be crowned the Queen of Uncanny Valley?”

We are hoping it lasts at least one more week somewhere near us. This was at about 2,000 feet in the local mountains, just off the interstate, on our drive home from Oakhurst.

Poppy Party!
My first wildflower photograph of 2026. It reminds me of the days of Kodachrome. #photography #landscapephotography #wildflowers #californiapoppies #superbloom

Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.

I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.

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Thanks for the share, Dan.

Spring runoff on the Fresno River, 2024. #photography #landscapephotography #spring #sierranevada #california

A squirrel's eye view of wildflowers (California Poppy and Purple Owl's Clover) in the Santa Monica Mountains. The photograph was taken by Joe Doherty in March, 2016.

Spring Forward!
A typical March day in the Santa Monica Mountains. #photography #wildflowers #spring #santamonicamountains #mrca

Playing around with an old photo of fog-bound cypress trees. #photography #mandala #abstract #kaleidoscope

It’s the Leeeroy Jenkins excuse.

Winter runoff in Malibu Creek State Park.
This was once, and may again be, a place where steelhead come to spawn. Removing dams and barriers will restore the flow into Malibu Lagoon, adding sand to beaches, and renewing the ecosystem. #photography #landscapephotography #malibu #californiastateparks

Thanks for sharing, Dan!

Schist Happens

Vishnu Schist along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. #photography #landscapephotography #grandcanyonnps #AZRA

If reports are confirmed, it appears the US-Israel attack on Iran has already become a regional war, with swift Iranian retaliation against Israel but also against US bases across the GCC.

Worst case scenarios could be playing out. Hopefully not, but this is not looking good.

I am hopeful that the war in Iran will bring needed democratic change to … the United States of America.

Disney Hall at dusk. It's been done before, but not by me.
#photography #disneyhall #architecture #losangeles

A honeybee with legs full of pollen approaches a cluster of flowers on the end of the branch of an almond tree.

A bee pollinating an almond orchard, Mettler, California.

If I move slowly the bees will ignore me, just like the twentysomethings at Trader Joe's ignore me. This allows me to exist among them and take candid photographs. #bees #california #almonds #photography #agriculture

A lone figure stands in a dark hallway with mirrors on one wall and lights illuminating the pathway. This is nighttime at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.

Self-Portrait, Disney Hall in Los Angeles.

I assume that when a great architect like Frank Gehry designs a building he anticipates every sightline and every nuance of light. So he probably foresaw me standing there. #photography #selfportrait #disneyhall #losangeles

An early morning view from a bridge over Malibu Creek in Malibu Creek State Park. The creek is full and the water is still, creating reflections of the sycamore trees in the distance that are sidelit by sunlight streaming through a side canyon.

Another scene from Malibu Creek State Park yesterday morning. The variety of moods and the utility of this place as a stand-in for other places (from Korea to The Planet of the Apes) makes this park a great place to photograph sunrise in every season. #photography #landscapephotography #smmnra

This is a view from a bridge overlooking a large calm pool in Malibu Creek. The reflection is clear, with a large sycamore tree on the left, and fog separating it from the red and green-colored hills behind it. The blue of the sky is glowing at the top of the screen, just above the fog.

When the fog lifts I can see where I've been.
Malibu Creek State Park this morning. The dawn fog swirled until about 8am. #photography #landscapephotography #malibucreekstatepark

My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”

THREAD.

A selection of notes I have made in my notebook about my dad, and the things he does.

1. The Public Swimming Pool

Seth Harp @sethharpesq X.com Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT challenged me to a debate on foreign policy. We recorded a 90-minute segment for his show, Interesting Times, on 1/15/26. But I defeated him so decisively that he refuses to air the footage. What an absolute coward. Today 11:41 AM Hi Is the NYT still planning to publish the interview I did with Ross three weeks ago? Today 1:01 PM Hey Seth, we've been working through the edit and it's looking like we aren't going to be able to make it work. We were kind of pummeled by the news cycle in the last 6 weeks and are going to pivot away from this story. Thanks for the time you put into it and for your expertise. Unbelievable cowardice on Ross's part and a giant waste of my time. I'm going to make it known what actually happened: Ross challenged me to a debate on foreign policy, got crushed, and doesn't have the intellectual or journalistic integrity to air the footage. Delivered

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. •6h Five days after we recorded, an editor of mine asked me how it went. I told her that @DouthatNYT was surprisingly unprepared to defend his point of view, and I suspected even then that they would spike it. From To seth.harp@protonmail.com * T Jan 20 凹 了 介 → It seemed to go just fine from my perspective although it did get a little heated towards the end when we debated foreign policy. I was somewhat surprised that Ross wasn't better prepared defend his point of view. They may still decide to spike it, we'll see. SH Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ••• On Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 at 11:41 AM, wrote: That's great —how did the interview go? {7 54 • 1.3K ill 38K

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 5h I also told an editor at Harper's, on 1/30/26, that I suspected the NYT would spike the interview rather than publish video of me dog-walking @DouthatNYT and making a mockery of his defense of US regime-change wars ... Friday 12:35 PM It's been more than 2 weeks since I was interviewed for Ross Douthat's show. I murdered him in our debate over foreign policy and was genuinely surprised that he wasn't better prepared to defend his point of view. Now I'm concerned that he will spike the episode. Do you have a sense of how far ahead they usually record? Also I really hope I get to hear this My sense was that it was about a week Suspicious 4 17 44 • 1K thl 32K 贝 企 Seth Harp @sethharpesq. •5h Ross @DouthatNYT was unprepared to take on a subject matter expert, floundered around, and became irritable and sarcastic towards the end. But spiking the episode is ten times worse for his journalistic credibility than simply losing a debate, which happens to us all.

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 5h ... Ross @DouthatNYT's producer blames their decision to spike our foreign policy debate on the crazy news cycle. But the last three episodes they've aired have been on Roe v. Wade, Covid-19, and young men's church attendance. OPINION Interesting Latest Feb. 5, 2026 Interesting Times with Ross Douthat The first draft of our future. Mapping the new world order through interviews and conversations. Every Thursday, from New York Times Opinion. Q Search Why Ending Roe Wasn't Enough for the Pro-Life Movement Activists won the legal battle. Are they losing the culture war? By ROSS DOUTHAT Jan. 29.2026 A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a 'Fringe Epidemiologist' Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public's trust in the Covid era. Now it's up to outsiders to restore it. By ROSS DOUTHAT and SOPHIA ALVAREZ BOYD Jan. 22,2026 No, Young Men Are Not Returning to Church All the religious trends you're wrong about. By ROSS DOUTHAT and ANDREA BETANZOS 18 17 75 1.5K ill 38K Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 1h I'm hearing that prominent guests are cancelling scheduled appearances on @DouthatNYT's show due to his lack of journalistic integrity. Why would you spend hours, days, or weeks prepping for an interview when you know the show is rigged to ensure that you don't show up the host? 3 223 ill 4.4K 贝

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.

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I converted to Catholicism a couple weeks ago. Here’s how Communion should work.

This is a photograph of an intimate scene near Abiqui, New Mexico. The frame is divided horizontally into three parts. The top part, about 25% of the frame, is a shelf of red stone, with gray clay-like material resting above it. The shelf sits atop a layer of gray rock that is about 40% of the frame, and looks like a cliff face. The bottom of the frame captures the area below the cliff, and is dotted with white clay and red rocks, like the rocks holding up the shelf. At a point in the shelf, about one-third of the frame from the right edge, there is a weakness through which clay from the upper shelf has poured over the cliff into the bottom. It looks like a frozen waterfall.

Melting at the White Place.
On this day in 2020 we were in Abiqui, NM, the home of Georgia O'Keeffe. It was weird, intimate, and remarkably small of scale. #photography #landscapephotography #abiqui