Category: Portfolios
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Perspective | Withrow, WA | 2014 Shifts in perspective bring new understanding. A boss bans dogs from the office because (we later learn) she was attacked as a child by a Doberman. Farmers realize too late that grasshoppers
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Horse before the Storm | East Wenatchee, WA | 2014 The fist flies in an arc only to stop a quarter-inch from the kung fu master’s face. He never flinches, for there’s nothing to fear. He lives in the moment, and in that moment the punch did not connect. The horse Stella stands
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Cut Lawn | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Sam thought his beret looked best when he wore it low over his right eye. Like an artist. It also blocked the morning glare while he made east-west cuts. His technique was
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Shadows | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Waiting outside J.C. Penney’s, I watched leaf shadow creep eastward along a wall as the sun tip-toed west. This juncture of cosmic and earthbound (sun, tree, building) hinted that I, too, might
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Bleachers | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Solitude where crowds normally gather is a delicious experience. Main Street at 3 a.m. A cathedral on a Tuesday afternoon. Grandstands an hour after the game. In silence and stillness, details of a place emerge
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The Light | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 My heart stopped for several minutes following a heart attack in 2004. People have often asked me if I moved toward the light or felt the Divine or was welcomed to heaven by smiling ancestors. But no, none of that. It was more of a comforting darkness…
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Explorers | Chelan , WA | 2013 They were there when I arrived at the library and, an hour later, had hardly moved. In rugged coats and beat-up boots, they sat in winter light sifting through what looked like books and maps — two stationary explorers (I imagined) prepping for an upcoming adventure. A reasonable…
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Face the Future | Seabrook, WA | 2013 Some Seattle families spend summers in Seabrook, an almost too-perfect community of vacation homes on the Washington coast. Years ago, the development’s managers installed artful plywood “cutouts” to amuse the kids. Tykes and teens put their faces in the holes and had photos snapped of their fantasy…
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Beach Poodle | Pacific Beach, WA | 2013 Poodles maintain dignity even after frolicking in surf or rolling in fish stink. They generally abide in grace, although they can look like fools while the
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