Category: Portfolios
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Birds on Wire | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 I’m back with my buddies, sitting on this wobbly wire and waiting for Millie to sprinkle some seeds. The small ones are tasteless and the big ones hard to crack. But it’s free food, right? Plus, Millie would be so disappointed if we didn’t gobble it…
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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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Arbor | Chelan Falls, WA | 2019 One complex biological system (a big mess of vines) provides perches for a batch of even more complex systems (flitting birds) while being observed by one of the most complex systems in the universe (shucks, that’s me). Trillions of specialized cells grouped into three very different organisms all…
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Tent | Omak, WA | 2017 Circus sideshows have nearly disappeared. But 55 years ago, a tent filled with oddities — “You Won’t Believe Your Eyes!” — sprouted at least once a year in our small southern town. On one occasion, a hulking canopy housed the (supposedly) mummified corpse of exotic dancer Marie O’Day. She’d…
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Cultivation | Badger Mountain, WA | 2017 “Let us not forget that cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins,
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Mannequins | Kennewick, WA | 2016 Service at a local retailer is so awful that I wonder if the staff has been trained to see customers only as faceless, walking wallets. These employees offer no “hello,” no eye contact, no chit-chat, no “thank you.” It makes me yearn for self-checkout or, even better, a robot…
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Warehouses | Wenatchee, WA | 2018 (This looks like a line drawing, but it really is a photo of a pole, some warehouses and a foothill.) The search for order in a chaotic world is one of photography’s great gifts. Not the resulting image, mind you, but the actual pursuit of balance, patterns and associations.…
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Ascend | Bellevue, WA | 2017 Before climbing the huge antenna’s stairs, Gretchen gathered her thoughts on her marital mess. True, her husband hadn’t romanced his secretary or stayed out drunk all night or lost the house in a poker game. But she felt cheated and scorned nonetheless as his search for “alien chatter” —…
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Snow Poodle | Twisp, WA | 2017 What’s to sniff in a frozen landscape? Our dog traces ghost scents left days before by wandering wildlife. Deer, coyotes, ravens, moles and stray cats have all written travel tales across the crunchy crust. And, as pooch owners know, every muzzle loves a good story. My own inhalations…
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Farmland | over Southern California | 2018 Extracted from desert, irrigated fields come into focus through clouds drifting below my window. A dreamy techno-marvel of flight and food. I snap a photo and adjust its contrast by touching a fingertip to the rectangle of glass in my hand. Another wonder. The flight attendant asks —…
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