So Far - Everardo Goyanes

What a welcoming smile. So cute. Then you see dirty nails holding the roll of money. She is running a carney game to separate you from your money.
Maine, mid 1970s

Ahhh... women. Young fellow, listen to me, it is not going to change much over the years.
Maine mid 1970s

I go a little metaphysical here. Don't think too hard. Let what happens, happen.
Parking lot, place unknown, time unknown

"It seemed like a good idea at the time." I love this picture because it embodies the nutty things we all do at some time of our lives. It also took me hours standing outside the shop waiting for just the right circumstances.
New Orleans, Mardi Gras, 2003

My oldest picture. Even though I have moved away from street photography, I do so enjoy it. Notice the life seeping out of him. Notice the young girl looking at it.
New York City, Early 1970s

I start to fool around with light. I particularly like this because it is taken with a very inexpensive range finder camera bought just hours before.
Hong Kong, mid 1970s

This one needs no words. It is exactly what you see. Don't we all wish we could spend time in this space?
New Orleans, Mardi Gras, 2003

Ok...the picture is of spiral incense burning from the roof of a temple. To me they are great shapes and a feeling or release in a picture that was a bear to expose properly.
Macao, mid 1970s

Part of the path to Nelson Rockefeller's summer house. The textures in the geometric are what got to me. Beginning of a theme which is to endure.
Pocantico, Rockefeller Estate early 1970s

A line cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park. I love the shadows, lines, geometrics and spirit of the times. It is also the first of my now-recurring themes of place and time.
Rocky Mountain National Park, early 1980s

Simplicity is elegance. What a different world when this could function as a lock for a door.
Kyoto, very early 1980s

The door to the playhouse for the Rockefeller "brothers." I love the feeling of supreme relaxation couple with time and place.
Pocantico, Rockefeller Estate, mid 1970s

Sometimes a great picture can be so simple. Elena and I were in a museum and nothing photographic was happening. I needed to make at least one image so I set up the tripod and took the foo dog. I had no idea what I had till months later.
Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts,

Another person loving life. Ahhh... to be so uninhibited. Maybe he met the girl in Plate 7.
New Orleans, Mardi Gras, 2001

Artsy...fartsy. I was trying to create something. This picture hung around for years. It eventually grew on me.
New Jersey, very early 1980s

This is an outside temple wall in China. The artist scraped away stone and added "paint" to create this dragon. Originally, I like this because it was so hard to take and print. It has grown on me and everyone is captivated by it.

Happy Happy Happy. Girl at bluegrass festival.
New Jersey, early 1980s

Don't you just love this guy? His teeth are black from beetle nuts and we are both enjoying the cock fight.
Bali, mid 1970s

One of my top five favorites. It is the outside wall of a junk shop. I adore all the shapes, angles and forms, don't miss the few animate representations. I can look at this for a very long time and it keeps looking different.
Tokyo mid 1970s

I so wanted to do candid portraiture. Eileen asked me to do her picture and we worked on it all day. I never did another one close to this in quality. I feel it really shows who she is.
New York City, mid 1970s

What a pair. My daughter and her friend Emily. The one time in three years they stopped moving.
New Jersey, early 1970s

First, as I have said, I like street photography. Second, it is hard work, but luck rewards hard work and it was luck who put the hand coming from the left. Third, why a mask when you are walking down Bourbon Street with your breasts hanging out?
New Orleans, Mardi Gras, 2006

The girl's face and eyes juxtaposed to her father's.
That's it. No more.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, 1970s

See note Plates 10 & 11

Here we go again with the angles, shadows and geometrics. The shield on the wall makes this picture.
Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, 2006

If this makes your mouth water, then I have accomplished what I wanted.
Barcelona, Spain, 2006

A mosque in Cairo. Another example of what the photo gods do to reward hard work. I really was just playing around with light and dark. The hanging lights were interesting. The chair was an annoyance but since I wasn't going anywhere this image I just left it in...just left it in, indeed.
Cairo Egypt, 1998

This was planned. The gal making her offering to the cross.
New Orleans, Mardi Gras, 2006

Diana's Cross. I owed Diana a thank you for putting me up in her apartment many times. When I saw this, I knew exactly that it was what I wanted for her.
Mission Trail, San Antonio, 2002

Everyone has to do nature but it doesn't have to be landscapes. Getting up close to these big rocks worked for me. Spooky too. P.S.: A wonderful trout lives in the left hand corner.
Willowemoc Creek, 2006

I truly move on here. I wanted to very quietly frame the strong outward movement of the limbs. It took a long time to work this out. More like it to come in future work.
Rockport, Maine, 2007

No it is not Photoshop or infrared. It is just how contrasty the sky can be in Colorado. The light source is the sun breaking over the mountains after an afternoon storm.
Outside Denver, late 1980s

The opposite of Plate 32. Another example of how you don't need a fancy camera.
Monument in Battery Park, NYC, early 1980s

Floating House. Actually, the idea was given to me. But I worked on it for many mornings to get the fog, light, water and mood just right. This was taken while I was "on the beach" after ING and accurately reflects how I felt.
Lew Beach, NY, 1999