Category: Landscape
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Feeding Time | Twisp, WA | 2007 On winter days, the cows came home just before sunset, just before the rancher spread a line of silage near the barn. We’d stand on a nearby hill fascinated by bovine instincts — sense of smell and timing — to troop every night, like clockwork, towards dinner. We…
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Island | Soap Lake, WA | 2008 Ancient volcanic humps — big ones of basalt —add interest to a long stretch of seep lakes in the Columbia Basin. At sunset, these islands of dark gray columnar rock seem to absorb light rather than reflect it — negative space in an otherwise illuminated landscape.
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Icicle | Twisp, WA | 2008 Fingers white with cold, breath freezing in my nostrils, roof-melt dripping into six-foot ice horns. Morning at 10 below is like a double image offset a few millimeters from the real world — nothing is quite as it looks. Even deer are confused. Apples they’ve pulled off the old…
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