Category: Portfolios
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Palm Trunk | Jennings, LA | 2017 A storm sheared the fronds off this palm tree and left a bald stalk. I know the feeling. My own head had a similar fate when I decided a few weeks earlier to crop my hair close to the scalp for the first time in my adult life.…
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Smoke | Entiat, WA | 2017 We’ve been robbed of prime-time summer these last few years. Wildfires here and beyond have smothered our perfect weather (August-September) under a blanket of smoke. Sadly, it’s curtailed much outdoor recreation. Residents blame climate change, forest mismanagement, increased lightning, and crazy people
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Motel Mirror | Seattle, WA | 2017 As a kid, I wasn’t allowed to watch “The Outer Limits.” So I hid one night behind the sofa and viewed an episode about a monster that lived in a mirror. It would rise from below the frame, reach with clacking claws through the glass into our world…
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Concourse | Houston, TX | 2017 “Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised
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Breezeway | Hammond, LA | 2017 “We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is down these passages, through these doors, that we
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Gus | Amite, LA | 2017 “Dogs are minor angels … They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy. If we attributed those qualities to a person, we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. When…
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Turkey | Manchac, LA | 2017 “Turkeys are smart and sensitive. But, let’s face it: they don’t exactly win over our hearts with their beauty or charm. They’re
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Suburbs | Las Vegas, NV | 2017 “I cannot walk through suburbs in the solitude of night without thinking that darkness pleases us because
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Blonde | Las Vegas, NV | 2017 “There are blondes and there are blondes … There is the small cute blonde who cheeps and twitters, and the big statuesque blonde who straight-arms you with an ice-blue glare … There is the soft and willing blonde who doesn’t care what she wears as long as it’s
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Z | Jennings, LA | 2017 “Scarcely a day of my life has gone by when I’ve not stirred the alphabetical ant nest, yet every time I type or pen the letter Z, I still feel a secret tingle, a tiny thrill. Z is a whip crack of a letter, a striking viper of a…
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