It very unsettling when someone goes suddenly, and you don’t have the opportunity to finish discussions. So many threads left loose … so many things left unsaid.

His photographs aren’t simply images, they evoke stories, suggesting more than telling, more impressionist than realist.

Thank you for the information.

Alas, the news is true. He was my friend on Facebook, and another friend gave me some more info. He collapsed and they were unable to revive him at the hospital. The last I heard, they suspected a blood clot.

I miss him, his photography, his intelligence and wit.

Steve, I was verifying that a recent commenter was not a spammer, and he was a friend of Jams. Then I checked some of the others who I was familiar with from threads on which I commented. I waited and checked to be sure, because he was on a self declared hiatus.

Steve, you may not have been aware of it, but he and Shirley were/are also vegetarians. He was a gentleman and a gentle man who shared his interests, humor, and wit.

Jams/Shaun visited my site first, to comment on a post about Günter Grass, on the occasion of the latter’s revelation of his wartime association with the SS… admittedly shocking, considering Grass’s later reputation as a peace and human rights activist. Jams was the only commenter who agreed with me that Grass should be forgiven the sins of his youth and of wartime; that simple agreement was the start of an online friendship that lasted until… well, until now.

We had two other significant things in common: Jams/Shaun lived with his domestic partner (“the not-wife” he sometimes called her, back before he started using real-world names on his blog), and both of us had suffered disabilities that led us to hop around one-footed on a walker (a frame, the Brits call it) for a period of time.

Jams had more virtues than I can list in a comment. I can assure you of this, though: the world of blogs has suffered a great loss. I shall miss him greatly. My condolences to his family.