IrwinFoto

A gallery of photos by Mike Irwin

Category: Portfolios

  • Shirt | Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 Shirt wrinkles tell a story, she says. The folds are determined by the fabric’s quality, the stresses in a man’s day, how he sits and

  • Moon | Wenatchee, WA | March 2019 Our awareness expands astronomically (quite literally) when a full moon greets us at sunrise. It reminds us of what and where we are — a blue mote in a cosmic swirl — and inspires us to think big. Even before that first sip of coffee.

  • Trees | Reardan, WA | February 2019 We all need a place to grow. Some kind of fertile spot — mental, physical, spiritual — that nourishes us and helps us

  • IF365 launches another year of daily photos — this time in color Friends and family will likely grow weary of me, very weary, before this new photo project ends. Beginning today (spring equinox), I will again post one photo each day for a year. I’ll even toss in an extra

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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…

  • South Wall | Amite, LA | 2018 “I love the simplicity of the Cube because it’s a very clear geometrical shape. And I love

  • Dog Toy Basket | East Wenatchee, WA | 2012 “If God made all our faces, did he laugh when he made me? / Does he sculpt us for his pleasure, for a reason I can’t