27 Jun 97
I am a buyer of fine art. I must have your entire collection of prints. Here's my Visa number. COST IS NO OBJECT. Please send asap!!! Man this is great. I enjoyed it very very much. I understand being excited about it. Very cool!!!!! I started to comment on individaul pix but narrowed  it down to some faves. The people section is my fave... next to the nudes of course. Kinda fun. The layout is very easy to cruise and the way it keeps track of where you are and what's next is good too. The Seattle picks at Pike's were great. One which is my fave. It's of the green beans with the sign that says,"Don't even think of touching these." The Needle pix are great too. I like the night time one with the death mist to the right of it. Sodium city is the most interesting I've seen. I had no idea it photographed like that. All in All it is certainly something to be proud of. You should be very happy with it.

1 Jul 97
I am very impressed by the high quality of the photographer's work. I would like to suggest the inclusion of his famed "Fat Man Sleeping" series. (the inferior and derivative "Hairy Man Stripping in Woods" certainly has no place here) I spent most of my time in the nudes section and could not help but notice a certain predilection of the artist for the feminine rear...I hope that the owner of this site will also grace us with other anatomical selections once he gets over his current fetish.

2 Jul 97
Those pictures were great! I don't know what to say, other than they're beautiful pictures and I think it's so cool that you are able to see that beauty, and attempt to capture it for others to see as well. Since I know it wouldn't be right to e-mail you without some sort of sarcasm attached, how do I get a picture of MY butt put on your web site? :)

3 Jul 97
balls out, brother. balls out. damn good show. you rock.

3 Jul 97
Very nice pictures... I didn't know that you had a sensitive side.

3 Jul 97
I am most impressed with your artistic passion. I especially enjoyed the "Landscapes" and "People" section. Nice expression on the sailboat! Thanks for forwarding the address to me. Would love to know when you add more expressions of your journey to your web site.

12 Aug 97
nice page man! clear and organized. got your postcard you bastard! i cant't even imagine how awesome that trip [to Prague} must have been. i have drewl running down my chin (though its not my own, actually i think its soy vomit.)

2 Dec 97  I stand in awe at the hand of the master.
Thought I'd send a quick E. LOVED the pix. I want the entire set. EVERYTHING. Even the ones YOU don't think are good. These are amazing. I new you had it in you. This is the best display of photographic feel and experience and knowledge I've ever seen from you. Not saying everything else is shit. I just see so much more of what has been unleashed up to now. DON'T LOOSE THE FEEL. I know it's 99% emotional but you need to find a way to slough off the negative of day to day and do more and more and more of this. I don't mean just nudes. I mean this is so far above anything else you've done. It means there can BE more. Like you keep saying... a start. I enjoy everything you send but this is from a totally different Alan. All of your thoughts and all of your feelings are here. I just can't say enough. I don't want to sound drippy but man this is good. This is book worthy, show worthy. This is what I think you've been looking for all of your life. YOU WERE THERE!!!! And this shows it. I don't completely buy that it is all environment, although it helps. I think you can do this anywhere anytime. You just keep it bottled up because of your current environment. I understand that. Fuck what happened at work today. GO do more of this!!!

4 Dec 97
fervent appreciation
I just finished looking at your photos of Ann Marie and Dusan. Your work blows me away Alan. I am not using the term "work" lightly. When you are hiding deep under the earth in your cellar of insecurity, don't lie to yourself; you are actually making art. I am so damn impressed with you. As far as your high culture goes, I'm thick as the next Watkins but I know art when I see it because it takes me outside myself. Your photos do that for me instantly Al. I have never had any appreciation for shadows until I started seeing your photos. The shadows in them sculpt the image into something so much more. That photo of Ann Marie's torso is so sensuous yet at the same time nearly adrogynous because it's hard to tell at 1st glance if it's a male or female torso. There is lyricism in the way you use the shadow... I sound snotty but I think you know that this is because I know so fucking little about photography. What I do know, however, is that you have a knack for expression and there is spirit in your work. They call that ART not a hobby. I know you think you're wasting your life and I know you're not employed to your capacity but damn, Al, if you can turn out stuff like this you're doing something right. If your work is coming out of angst or something, I wish you more misery because it can only lead to a gallery show. Just another fan...

19 Aug 98
Fondled light? uh, Dr. Freud, I need to set up an appointment for a friend of mine. . .

4 Nov 98
I just read yer walkin' home from work on the hottest fuckin' day of the year rant - I feel like that about once an hour - strong work there - we must have beer soon and rant.

31 Jan 99
i checked out your website and enjoyed the photography and essays. i particularly liked the pictures of prague, having spent a couple of great weeks there in 1993 (can't believe it was that long ago). your story about your grandfather struck a chord with me, too, because i had an aunt who, for years, used to send me cards every year for my birthday and all the holidays. all the time i was growing up i took those cards for granted, never appreciating her thoughtfulness. then last year my aunt died, and the first thing my cousins and i mentioned in remembering her was those cards, and we all agreed how much we'd miss them.

30 Jul 99
I would call if I knew the number... but alas I do not. Thanks for allowing a tear to surface with the grandpa thang... sheeesh, not sure I really needed that today... Your site is wonderful. Did you put this together yourself? I am impressed by your work as well. ...this would have been my loss.... not to visit. Thanks W.Alan.

15 Nov 99
Feedback. I'm reminded of Goddess Kring on channel 29. Hiding the face brings a very different impact to the content. The close crops and frameups are a departure from "pornography" - they are metaphorical. The hands crushing the breasts say something very powerful . . . I'm not certain though, quite what. Perhaps Sister Windy from England, the nun with the huge buck teeth and awful lisp could shed some interpretive light. Very dark tones, low key tonalities and cryptic sections of the female form are . . . dare I say . . . haunting? Being a queerbait, I can look objectively at the metaphor and composition without distraction from the subjects' naked body. But even so, it doesn't seem there is any expression of eroticism or celebration of female sexuality in your images. The poses and cropping seem to suggest shame, injury, isolation. Is this photographic catharsis, Alan? Your rants, although cloaked in sarcasm at points, speak very clearly about injury and emotion you've shouldered. It's interesting that you chose such public, outspoken, forthcoming methods of expression to say to those you encounter: DON'T TRY TO GET INSIDE. KEEP OUT. NO TRESSPASSERS. Rob Brezney might suggest that you bear your soul, wear your heart on your sleeve and stand on the corner stark naked, proclaiming you deepest secrets and convictions to anyone who can hear. It's a transformative step you might be amazed by - pure honesty, unobscured. In my Lifetime, it has become apparent that we DO INDEED become like that which we hate the most. Through connection with others my internal self-loathing can be illuminated and exposed for the folly it is. Speaking of rants . . . I think I just composed my own!

15 Nov 99
the animated gif is distracting...looks like my girlfriend in the throws of orgasm... too gimmicky. the new nudes, on the other hand, are very senuous. My question is, are you screwing this model. You have obviously felt her in the pictures. Very sexual. I loved them.!!!

7 Dec 99
I was randomly searching for homepages of Seattle artists to see what's around here and ran across your web page. I think your photos are wonderful! I like your eye.

30 May 00
Saw your site in live journal and was totally wigged out by the animation gif (I guess it's a gif, I'm fairly computer illiterate). Wanted to comment on that then bumped into your mention of your photography site. Very fine stuff there. Your sense of lighting / shading is quite good. Looks like you must print yourself as well.

Anyway, you're right about people not being sure why they respond to something the way they do, or just not being able to articulate it. Some people can easily. I can sometimes quite easily and sometimes I can't. The one thing I've always loved about nude photography is how the female legs/hips/curves resemble the form / shape of fruit in nature. I'm not sure if I've every read of this comparison but I always see it. Your photo "m7.jpg" is very much like that. The form is of a wonderfully shaped peach. And then there's just the natural flow and beauty of the curve of the body that resembles nothing other than what it is but the lines and accents are always different. And lighting assists with the abstract in fantastic ways.

Feel free to Email your comments to:
alan@zancro.com