IrwinFoto

A gallery of photos by Mike Irwin

Category: Cityscape

  • Flight: Shadow on Forest | Houston, TX | 2017 “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is

  • Flight: Pre-Takeoff | Seattle, WA | 2017 “The angels told me there is a trick to flying. You need to forget everything you know as a human being. Humans discover often that there is great power in

  • Flight: Gate A8 | Seattle, WA | 2017 “Air travel reminds us who we are. It’s the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander … checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa.…

  • Catwalk | Wenatchee, WA | 2017 Sooner or later your path will lead to the edge of an abyss — deep, dark and scary. You’ll be tempted to whip around and head for home. But across the chasm, far on the other side, something glows, something beckons. And turning back seems wrong. For days you…

  • Barn Roof | Twisp, WA | 2018 Bones show where the wind peeled back the old barn’s skin. More than a hundred years of history standing there — leaning, really — unperturbed by the creeping effects of aging. Droughts, wildfires, blizzards, hurricane-like chinooks have all taken a toll, but the barn keeps

  • Five Bulbs | Seattle, WA | 2017 “The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. When you think about it, the light bulb is what wired the world. [People] weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They weren’t even thinking about putting electricity into the home. They…

  • Street Lamp | Wenatchee, WA | 2017 “There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are

  • Sun | Wenatchee, Wa | 2017 Photo taken during a shroud of wildfire smoke that lasted almost six weeks. “We must leave this terrifying place tomorrow and

  • Net Enclosure | Moses Lake, WA | 2018 Sages have noted that it’s the holes in nets that make them effective. Emptiness = usefulness. But I couldn’t quite figure out the use for this large, two-story-high netted rectangle. At first, I thought it was for sports practice — tennis or soccer — but the multiple…

  • Doorway | Twisp, WA | 2018 It’s easy to just keep going, just continue down the street we know so well. But that dim and mysterious doorway calls to us every time we pass, and the call keeps getting