Category: Cityscape
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Warehouses | Wenatchee, WA | 2018 (This looks like a line drawing, but it really is a photo of a pole, some warehouses and a foothill.) The search for order in a chaotic world is one of photography’s great gifts. Not the resulting image, mind you, but the actual pursuit of balance, patterns and associations.…
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Ascend | Bellevue, WA | 2017 Before climbing the huge antenna’s stairs, Gretchen gathered her thoughts on her marital mess. True, her husband hadn’t romanced his secretary or stayed out drunk all night or lost the house in a poker game. But she felt cheated and scorned nonetheless as his search for “alien chatter” —…
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Walkway | Seattle, WA | 2017 Excited visitors streamed across the elevated walkway at Seattle’s aviation museum. Everyone, that is, except Jules. He stood at one end of the long glass tunnel and quietly, but firmly, told his wife that he couldn’t do it. “I’ll go outside and just walk across the street the regular…
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14 on the Fly | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 Before you rush to join the crowd, consider the benefits of hovering alone. You float free in a cloud of thoughts — your thoughts — without judgment or boundaries. Wacky ideas mix equally with
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Evening | Fairfield Bay, AR | 2017 Dusk. When the world settles down and ripples lull (in the pool and in life) and the neighborhood quiets and birds flock their way home. It’s a precious few minutes before voices prick the peace, those kids from up the street strutting down for an after-dinner swim. As…
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Finish | Hot Springs, AR | 2017 My dear mother died two weeks ago at age 87. Some would say she’d reached the Finish Line, but that would imply a certain amount of striving and competition. For most of her life, she was the opposite of that. She nurtured, embraced, accepted, and loved almost
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Gas Pump | Calico Rock, AR | 2017 Southerners know that you clip and snip immediately or kudzu will take over your yard and life. Same with English ivy. Or weeds from the vacant lot next door. “Do the difficult things while they are
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At Window | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 Mediocre tacos on a plastic tray atop a scratched Formica tabletop in a past-its-prime Mexican restaurant. Yeesh. But I hardly had time to pity myself because the swish of sunlit grasses in the window lightened my mood. A west wind twirled the stalks — like golden flames…
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Rider | Calico Rock, AR | 2017 “I’m looking for the unexpected. I’m looking for things I’ve
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Flight: LAX Stairway | Los Angeles, CA | 2018 “Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking
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