Category: Landscape
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Intersection | near Harrington, WA | 2018 Here’s where I turn, friends, and head in a different direction. Today marks the final post (#365) in my year-long IrwinFoto365 blog, and I sincerely thank you for following the project. Each daily entry of photo and commentary has allowed me, most humbly, to ponder the universe and…
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Buffalo in Wildfire Smoke | Cle Elum, WA | 2018 “People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once there were 70 million buffalo on the plains and then the people of the West started blasting away at them … By 1895, there were only
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Water Tower | Reardan, WA | 2018 “Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. Have you planned a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the
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Old House | Hartline, WA | 2018 “It was a mistake to think of old houses as empty. They were filled with memories and faded echoes. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls … Wasn’t it, after…
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Tractor Shed | Davenport, WA | 2018 “I’m not made for city streets. My [boots] drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt like a seed revealing who I am. My heart belongs
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One Poplar | Wilson Creek, WA | 2018 Sweeping vistas certainly awaken the soul. After all, who’s dismissive of the Grand Canyon? More subtle, the arid landscape of Eastern Washington offers opportunities for … well, let’s call it deep appreciation of stark and simple. A lone element against sunburnt hills captures our
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Artifact | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 Resting in a meadow, the big concrete block whispers when I walk past. “Why am I here?” it asks. “And how long has it been?” They’re questions I don’t really want answered because the big block’s value lies, for me, in its mysterious origin. OK, I can guess…
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Dark Cloud | Twisp, WA | 2018 “Our mind is like a cloudy sky — in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so too can
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Space | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 The moon reminds us at a glance that we’re on a rock flying through space. Veiled by clouds, floating on a star field, Luna presents a dramatic mirroring of our own situation as Cosmic Travelers. She nudges us to remember that
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