Nikons / BW400->1600
Snapshots taken over several years on the same roll. 50mm 1.8 E on both a Nikon FE2 and F3.
Journal - Memory Mulch
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Cinemagraphs | Infamous Loop
Fall 2023
I love a solar eclipse. The full eclipse in 2017 was spectacular, otherworldly. But even a partial event tickles the part of the brain that craves being assigned to a research outpost on an alien planet. The sun still shines, but it’s dim. I was in a hospital, attending a conference. My brain figured it was the large, tinted windows that gave the strange lighting. But I took a break, leaving the…
Zines
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Canyons | Fall 2023
The sandstone slot canyon is deep and dark, dozens of feet deep and sometimes only one or two wide. It may be hot in the desert above, but down here it's cold and hard. Quiet too. A palette of dull oranges and reds smearing down the rock walls as the light fades into our abyss. The dirt floor at the base of our long rappel has instructions written in the mud, letters six inches tall carved by hand…
Foothills Mine
Temp: 15-20°C | Radiation: Nominal The yellow deposits hang like a dusting fixed by glue, a heavy coating on the hard rock walls. They are generally due to metal sulfides, like pyrite, being exposed and weathering . This of course occurs despite the relative lack of actual weather inside this mine. The rocks and minerals react and change, with water leaching through and moving things around as…
PNW | August 2023
I take in a light breakfast of blackberries from the endless thicket on the canal shore. A rusty rail bridge with raising ability hosts a clunking, orange-and-red BNSF freight train with loads of double-decker CONEX. Footprings betray the excursions of coyotes, ‘coons, geese, and seagulls who continue to call into the sunny morning air. The shore is a mixture of packed sand and thick crusts of…
Summer 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_fungus Bouncing along the state highways in a city bus which had been pressed into service as a regional commuter. Certain that any accident will fling me bodily from my seat of plastic and thin carpet into a world of pain and poorly compensated disability, or perhaps just a mercifully early end. A slightly opened emergency hatch in the ceiling to my left drips…
Goblin's Lair
Canyons | Spring 2023
Burning Man 2023
Moments from Burning Man 2023 > An official minder climbs onto our rental bus, looking like Willie Nelson after a strong hit of MDMA. We’re instructed to clap along as he has us chant “If I don’t have my ticket I’m FUCKED!” Hours later the ancient lake bed finally comes into view with a vast, multi-headed cloud of dust. We roll slowly into the white-out. > A giraffe drives by, fire shooting from…
Assorted Medical Imaging
The horror…the horror... Previous: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Marshall Landfill
Storms 2023
Lightning Sprites
The phenomenon of lightning sprites is a type of transient luminous event that is also sometimes called upper-atmospheric lightning . However, they tend to occur dozen of kilometers above storm clouds and aren't the same as lightning. Instead they are more like brief aurora, but instead triggered by terrestrial affairs, with lights of various colors and shapes being emitted by excited gasses at…
Spring 2023
Snow—no, wait—graupel, falls with increasing speed onto dull and brown dirt mountain roads. The landscape of pine, overgrown understory litter, and sparse-but-inescapable marks of human activity slowly turns lighter as the pebbles of snow land like pillowy rain across the foothills and roof my work truck. The open skies have closed. Back down the hill, low clouds still skirt the classification of…
Kauai | 3
Kauai | 2
A tractor plows around the water-filled fields, rays of sunlight breaking through the clouds and glinting off the drenched banks while small white egrets follow, foraging for freshly revealed bits in the wake of its blades. My glasses always seem to be developing a thin haze here, like fungus on an old camera lens. Jungle Roosters The Zuckerberg compound sits on the left of the beach above, a…