Daniel Greene

Author: Daniel Greene

  • Meeting Liza Minelli

    I met Liza when I worked at J.W. Robinson in Beverly Hills in 1987. I walked up to her and gushed! She smiled, shook my hand, and said, “Thank you.”

    I worked at Fred Segal on Melrose for about a week and waited on Liza Minelli. She was looking for a scoop-necked t-shirt. At one point, she was said something silly and then chided herself, saying, “Oh, Liza!” I was able to find her the shirt she wanted.

    I just thought of something very interesting. Liza Minelli: Three Weeks at Carnegie Hall was the first CD I ever bought. And I met Liza only weeks after buying that CD. I sang with ABBA when I was 11, and “Dancing Queen” was the first 45 RPM single I ever bought. I met Toni Tenille at Robinson’s, too, and Love Will Keep Us Together was the first LP vinyl record I ever bought. Basically, I have met all the artists I admired so much that theirs were the first recordings I rushed out to buy. How many people can say that?

  • Our Crazy, Noisy Dogs

    I was awakened this afternoon (staying at home with the flu) to these crazy noises of our dog Buxley playing with Andy. I got up and shot this to capture the hard-to-believe noise he makes.

  • Mama said there would be days like these.

    This is what three consecutive nights of sub-freezing temperatures did to this plant. I shot this on a cold, cloudy morning just before it began to rain again. I know this is not a pretty picture, but it does document the morbidity of the scene as I saw it, with those dull colors.

    In the meantime, Andy and I are sick with the flu, so we don’t feel much better than this.

    Oh, and in case you’re wondering, I had to bundle up this morning and take the dogs for a walk, so I just snapped this quickly after the walk while I was still bundled up. And what am I still doing out of bed? All right, Mama, I’m going back to bed now…

  • Sad story on NPR made me cry

    Yesterday I heard this story about girls with obstectric fistulas in Ethiopia on NPR. It was so sad, I called Andy to share my grief, and when he answered, I was so choked up I couldn’t even speak. I wish that ignorance and lack of access to resources didn’t cause such awful things to happen anywhere in the world.

  • Anticipation


    Anticipation
    Originally uploaded by danielgreene.

    It’s below freezing here in Phoenix this morning, and the most that will come out of our kitchen sink is an occasional drip.

    I thought I’d experiment with a blue-toned monochrome for this image, since blue is the color of water (sort of), and the image was fairly monochromatic to begin with. The blue tone also seems to evoke the emotion of wanting… waiting… missing something.