Category: Portfolios
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Five Bulbs | Seattle, WA | 2017 “The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. When you think about it, the light bulb is what wired the world. [People] weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They weren’t even thinking about putting electricity into the home. They…
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Moth in Window | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 “The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of
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Street Lamp | Wenatchee, WA | 2017 “There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are
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Sun | Wenatchee, Wa | 2017 Photo taken during a shroud of wildfire smoke that lasted almost six weeks. “We must leave this terrifying place tomorrow and
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Thistle Bloom | Winthrop, WA | 2017 “All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them and instead confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you. Grasp it boldly, and
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Ram | Winthrop, WA | 2017 “The discoveries of Leonard of Pisa, better known as Fibonacci, are revolutionary contributions to the mathematical world. His best-known work is the Fibonacci sequence, in which each new number is the sum of the two numbers preceding it. When performed, beautiful and incredible patterns begin to emerge. The numbers…
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Spider | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 Long after the seasonal disappearance of household insects — ants, flies, moths — hardy arachnids survive well into autumn and, sometimes, beyond several frosts. Every year, the spider’s determination to find water and warmth in our bathroom borders on inspirational. Set a goal, ignore distractions, plow towards accomplishment.…
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Leaves | Orondo, WA | 2017 “There’s design, and there’s art. Good design is total harmony, and there’s no better designer than
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Net Enclosure | Moses Lake, WA | 2018 Sages have noted that it’s the holes in nets that make them effective. Emptiness = usefulness. But I couldn’t quite figure out the use for this large, two-story-high netted rectangle. At first, I thought it was for sports practice — tennis or soccer — but the multiple…
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Holiday Destiny | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 Today I’m dishing up four classic riddles (OK, they’re really stupid jokes) for Thanksgiving Day. Use them as childish distractions whenever anyone tries to talk politics at the table …
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