Category: Cityscape
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White Chair | Spokane, WA | December 2019 I’ve learned not to judge people or furniture at first glance. They’re likely more comfortable than they look. Take this chair, for instance. To me, it appears stiff and formal — the kind of chair that actually discourages lounging. But my butt, all smiles, found a soft,…
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3 Windows | Moses Lake, WA | December 2019 Moses Lake’s tallest downtown building is likely no more than three stories high. The city core has a low-rise architecture with a boxy charm all its own. Specifically: creative variations on rectangular, cinder-block buildings — faux fronts (brick, metal, glass), distinctive landscaping (dryland grasses, basalt spires)…
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Tracks in Snow | Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 As kids we’d stand on the town’s tracks and play the game “Where To?” It forced us to study maps, so we’d know that far north — beyond those converging, disappearing rails — rose Memphis, St. Louis and the great mystery of Chicago. We had Yankee…
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Snowman | Waterville, WA | December 2019 Peace, dear photo fans, on what I hope for you is a luminous Christmas Day. Even if you’re not religious, this is a good time to practice kindness and compassion — upon waking, during TV football games, with your loud-mouthed brother-in-law who sucked down most of the Buffalo…
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3 Hangers | Moses Lake, WA | December 2019 Things Ignored by Famous Photographers #3 | In a way, every clothes hanger is like a Picasso line drawing. The simple wire shape represents a human neck and shoulders onto which we drape a shirt or coat. A century of innovations — cardboard tubes, foam sleeves,…
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Damp Cracks | Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 Things Ignored by Famous Photographers #1 | Long after the snow melts, cracks between sidewalk tiles hold moisture. What’s developed in these miniature ravines, it seems, is a tiny ecosystem — algae, moss, ants lining up for a drink — that’ll last until the first extended freeze.…
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Sprig | East Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 Garden Wall #3 | “Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything. Color, you see, was
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Secured | Baker Flats, WA | December 2019 Garden Wall #2 | “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do our children as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
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Sapling | Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 Garden Wall #1 | “Until you dig a hole, until you plant a tree, until you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done
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