Category: IrwinFoto365
Photos and comments posted daily from 2017 to 2020.
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Storm Break | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | Yipes! This is the non-stop wind and wet we’ve always heard the Pacific Coast can deliver. Multiple storm fronts have hit in the last three days — hurricane-force winds, sideways downpours, darkened skies, twilight at noon. Beachcombers in big pickup trucks drive the…
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Waiting | Seattle, WA | January 2020 “When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator — consider not thinking. These are all opportunities for
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Gap Between Skyscrapers | Seattle, WA | January 2020 “One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a
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Lost Soles | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Designing tread patterns for athletic shoes has become one of the fashion industry’s premiere careers. Apparently, the physics of friction — how rubber-like substances interact with sidewalks and basketball courts — are mysteries understood by only a few. A hiking boot’s lateral traction, for instance, differs…
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Landing | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 “We’ll be making an unscheduled landing due to an approaching cold front,” said the jet pilot who was flying us to Chicago. So we touched down at a small airport in Wisconsin and sat as snow began to fall hard. Hangars blurred into dark shapes. Crews in…
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Snow Walker | Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 A slip and fall on a snowy sidewalk can dramatically change your life. Sometimes you bounce upright with only a bruised ego. Sometimes you bounce and can’t get up. Not good. So here are three things to remember while trudging in snow: 1) Exiting your house, the…
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Transformer | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Static on a TV screen is often called “snow.” We see it in the real world when certain environmental conditions produce random visual stimuli. Blizzards, waterfalls, dust storms. Years ago, a co-worker’s favorite retort was “Don’t gimme no static.” It always triggered the same creepy feeling I…
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Curb | Seattle, WA | January 2020 A surprise for the eyes lies almost everywhere in the big city. Lines, shapes, colors, fullness, emptiness and, oh yeah, people. One pleasure is to peer out a high-rise window with no notion of what’s below. Streetscape, sure, but maybe also an unfolding
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Exhibit | Seattle, WA | January 2020 Life tilts in new directions every time I view art. In books, on walls, across screens — art from inspired minds helps me see differently and reinterpret the world. Yeah, I know that’s what it’s supposed to do. But these days so many claims never pay off. You…
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Reeds | Ephrata, WA | January 2020 Two reeds — one curved, one straight — represent every shape of every object in the universe. Yep, just two lengths of grass in a murky pond can form the outlines of the bagel we had for breakfast, the bridge we crossed to get to work, the star…
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