Category: Portfolios
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Old Tumbler | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 [Good morning. I’ve restarted this blog’s daily posts for a temporary run (two weeks? a month?) during the virus crisis. I’m curious how far I can wander within the confines of home and yard. Expect lots of still-life and pooch pics.] The ordinary now catches our…
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Cow with Wires | Mansfield, WA | March 2020 After a year of daily postings, IrwinFoto365 ends with this image and my sincere thanks for clicking here everyday. My college photo instructor always advised, “When in doubt, shoot the cow.” He believed cows were kindhearted creatures beloved by everyone. So if we happened across a…
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Hay Sheds | Moses Lake, WA | March 2020 Growers here export thousands of tons of hay to Asian beef producers. Shiploads of what’s essentially tall grass link local farmers to those expensive steaks favored by Tokyo execs. (My total knowledge of global economics is now exhausted.) Ag experts would say the hay bales are…
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Ghost Hand | Moses Lake, WA | March 2020 A voodoo practitioner in New Orleans once told me that spirits shed parts as they fade from the physical realm. I imagined ears and hands and buttocks as detached, transparent wisps blowing across parking lots. “Ectoplasm needn’t take human form,” she said. “Look for vapors in…
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Painted Tunnel | Trinidad, WA | March 2020 This tunnel cuts through a wall of railroad fill that’s topped by busy east-west tracks. Years ago I sat in my truck and watched a train slowly chug over this portal on its way to big cities in the Midwest. What I thought was a cloud of…
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Road Cut | Chelan Falls, WA | March 2020 Essentially the road curls along a wide ledge sliced into solid rock. As I marvel at the cut’s workmanship — precise, tidy — I’m also keenly aware that this high-up highway traces the fine line between cruising carefree and veering into the void. Some drivers would…
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Bridge | Chelan Falls, WA | March 2020 Things that take us from here to there, that connect us across wide divides, give us reasons to hope. Airplanes and trains, all types of bridges, certain songs and speeches, a phone call from dear Aunt Betty — they all reach beyond where we stand to where…
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Boulder | McNeil Canyon, WA | March 2020 I want to personally thank the glacier for its visit here 18,000 years ago and the gift it left on the ridge. Seen from the highway, this bus-sized boulder sits tiny in the distance but big in my imagination. The huge rock and its thousands of fellow…
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Dress | Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 Every time I pass this dress shop, I’m reminded of how much I don’t know. It’s a window, literally, to another culture, another world, where glittery gowns herald milestone rituals for young women stepping into new roles. Quinceañaras, proms, graduations, weddings — the landmarks of
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