Category: Portfolios
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Ducks | Bellevue, WA | 2016 A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural Texas. He got one on the first shot, but it fell across the fence into a farmer’s field. As the lawyer climbed over the fence to get the duck, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor. “This is my…
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Corner Lot | Warden, WA | 2016 Shreds of dreams linger in many of Eastern Washington’s small towns. In the last few decades, a shift in rural economies — more mail order, more consolidation, more Walmarts — undercut Main Street’s mom-and-pop businesses. Once-busy stores have now been repurposed into offices, senior centers or storage spaces.…
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Modern Ruin | Lind, WA | 2016 In the early 1900s, two competing transcontinental railroads crossed routes just outside the town of Lind. Sharing tracks? Out of the question. So a long elevated bridge was built on tall stanchions that allowed one company’s trains to chug
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Stroll | Kure Beach, NC | 2016 One glorious quality of the American landscape is its vast emptiness. Yes, cities are suffocatingly crowded. Highways a knotted tangle. And popular beaches and parks a mass of humanity. But it’s easy to escape all that (really, it is) and be totally — or almost totally — alone.…
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Seven Blooms | East Wenatchee, WA | 2016 Flowers, those tricky devils, combine bright colors and intricate shapes to lure pollinators. Bees and other insects can’t resist participating in this brazen sex act that
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Backyard Mary | Amite, LA | 2016 “There is a reason Mary is everywhere. I’ve seen her image all over the world — in cafés in Istanbul, on students’ backpacks in Scotland, in a market stall in Jakarta. But I don’t think her image is everywhere because she’s a
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Avocado | East Wenatchee, WA | 2016 Look closely. “There is, in every event and object, a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find
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Traveler | Seattle, WA | 2016 Traveling light requires planning and courage. If done right, you’ll leave behind much that you always thought mattered, both physically and mentally. Such as: Clean clothes for every day of travel. Books you’ve always meant to read. That damned hair dryer. The household chore list. Daily musts and shoulds…
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Plane Shadow | Salt Lake City, UT | 2016 I look out the plane window and sometimes can’t believe we’re flying. Of all our technological achievements — television, satellites, touch screens, intermittent windshield wipers — human flight seems the most
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Vases | Wilmington, NC | 2016 The waitress said the flower delivery was late that morning, so she hadn’t put the bud vases on the tables. Instead, she’d arranged them on a shelf in a dim corner behind the cash register. I noticed that every time she passed the shelf that she’d pause to adjust…
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