Category: Portfolios
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Doorway | Los Cerrillos, NM | 2013 The world is thick with physical and mental doors that lead to the unknown. Exploration begins with stepping through — to new spaces, new ideas, new opportunities. For me, this photo blog is one such doorway. It’s a time-travel portal that
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Schoolhouse | Coulee City, WA | 2013 The century-old Highland School sits on the crest of a hill along Highway 2 between Waterville and Coulee City in eastern Washington. Morning light flatters it most, although strong sun tends to highlight the vandalism — graffiti, failed arson attempts, theft of windows and wall boards. More than…
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Goose Eggs | Belfast, ME | 2013 Eggs are miracles. As vessels for new life, their complexity is astonishing. Specialized membranes, protective fluids and nutrient sacs work to ensure that the teensy
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Cowboy | Fort Worth, TX | 2013 I wandered away from the hundreds of tourists at the Fort Worth Stockyards, the Texas livestock industry’s historical district, and found myself alone in the quiet offices of the former cattle market. The structure’s high ceilings, wood floors, old photos and artifacts captured a bygone era of cattle…
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Short Pier | Pateros, WA | 2013 At first look, the half-sunken pier seemed like a bad situation. In a grand sense, it was failing to fulfill its destiny. More simply, it wasn’t being used as intended. But wait …
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Sunset | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Above our west-facing window hangs a row of hats that catches the day’s shifting light. Towards sunset, I adjust the blinds to reflect upwards and watch as this straw hat
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Window | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 The guy who scavenged the parking lot for coins and cigarette butts pointed at the high window and said, “Bad things up there.” But I knew the building was vacant, so I asked him what he meant. “Monsters,” he said. Well, this was getting creepy real quick. “Just wait,”…
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Three | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Mystery resides in threes, but nobody really knows why. The Musketeers, the Stooges, the Amigos are triangles of brotherhood — sturdy in their support of each other. Writers drive home a point most effectively with three examples, not two. And artists love to align three elements to guide…
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Shed | Douglas, WA | 2013 At three weeks into retirement, I’ve begun to shed the veneer of career and rediscover my underlying self, a person I’d only glimpsed occasionally in the last four decades. Yes, this emerging me is
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