Category: Portfolios
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Tanks at Dawn | Ephrata, WA | December 2019 These tanks hold ag chemicals, not rocket fuel. But this scene got me thinking about the power of molecules. “It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of its problems. It is hypergolic [tending to ignite spontaneously] with every known fuel … and such…
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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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Buttered Baking Pan | East Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 Things Ignored by Famous Photographers #2 | There’s joy in finger-smearing soft butter over sheet metal. No one in my lifetime has ever mentioned how satisfying it can be. Scooping, dabbing, coating — actions that grease the pan, sure, but also lubricate creativity. My abstract…
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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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Windmill #2 | Waterville , WA | December 2019 Run-down windmills attract a variety of wildlife. Ravens, in particular, use them as easy roosts. Hawks perch high to spy rabbit snacks. Marmots dig dens under concrete slabs. Insects and rodents nest in adjacent utility sheds. Windmill buffs bemoan the loss of these dryland devices. But…
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Windmill | Waterville, WA | December 2019 A windmill on a dirt track is sometimes the only hint of humans in isolated areas of the Waterville Plateau. No houses, no cultivated fields, no phone service. Just you, the windmill and an occasional creak from metal on aging metal. Nowadays many of these bladed gizmos stand…
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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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