Author: IrwinFoto
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Altocumulus | above Grand Junction, CO | September 2019 Window Seat #3 | Explanations of how clouds float undermine the glorious mystery of levitation. Science asserts that gravity has little effect on a cloud’s micro-droplets, upward air currents offer lofty support, and a water particle’s shifting shape and mass determine if it becomes a raindrop.…
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Winglet | above Ogden, UT | September 2019 Window Seat #2 | Upturned fins, called winglets, at the tips of jet wings blend airflows of differing pressures that could cause turbulence. I like them because they look cool, rather rakish. I’ve always thought it’d be great to have some kind of winglet to ease everyday…
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Sunrise | above Pilot Rock, OR | September 2019 Window Seat #1 | Sun, clouds, jet wing — the combination can befuddle a smartphone sensor and, similarly, my brain. The sight brings to mind other situations of sensory overload: Aurora borealis shimmering against starlight, a seabird flock spiraling like a living tornado, wind-whipped snow falling…
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Turtle and Carp | Fairfield Bay, AR | September 2019 “Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the
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Night Light | Fairfield Bay, AR | September 2019 Incandescence #3 | “I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again. So there is really only one logical conclusion:
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Mountain Light | Cashmere, WA | September 2019 Incandescence #2 | “Most of us exist in worlds that are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. We forget there are environments that do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and that have their own rhythms and orders of existence.…
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Bulb | East Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 Incandescence # 1 | “Suppose you make a [tiny] hole in an ordinary electric light bulb and allow air molecules to pass at a rate of 1,000,000 per second. The bulb will become full of air in 100,000,000 years.” — Francis William Aston (d. 1945), Nobel Prize-winning…
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Show Goat | Cashmere, WA | September 2019 County Fair #3 | “My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and
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2nd Place Tomatoes | Cashmere, WA | September 2019 County Fair #2 | “Second place is just the first loser.” — Professional race car driver Dale Earnhardt “Because I came in second place, it makes me want to work harder.” — Diana DeGarmo, first runner-up in the third season of the “American Idol” TV series…
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1st Place Onion | Cashmere, WA | September 2019 County Fair #1 | “Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who says
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