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self-portrait with partial annular eclipse
  • place: Hawk Moon Ridge, Glade Park, Colorado

20::May::2012 19:50 → permalink

self-portrait with partial annular eclipse, Hawk Moon Ridge, Glade Park, Colorado, May 2012

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portrait, Brett and Rick
  • place: Gold Hill, Colorado

20::May::2012 10:44 → permalink

portrait, Brett and Rick, Gold Hill, Colorado, February 1986

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portrait, Mike and Isabelle
  • place: Soquel, California

19::May::2012 08:41 → permalink

portrait, Mike and Isabelle, Soquel, California, January 2007

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group portrait, outing
  • place: Bridgeport, Connecticut

17::May::2012 15:03 → permalink

group portrait, outing, Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 1985

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portrait, brothas
  • place: Alphabet Soup, New York

16::May::2012 14:59 → permalink

portrait, brothas, Alphabet Soup, New York, April 1985

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portrait, Debbie
  • place: Greenwich Village, New York

15::May::2012 15:55 → permalink

portrait, Debbie, Greenwich Village, New York, April 1985

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portrait, Susan
  • place: Chelsea, New York

14::May::2012 13:52 → permalink

portrait, Susan, Chelsea, New York, April 1985

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group portrait, Hard Times Cafe soccer team
  • place: College Park, Maryland

12::May::2012 23:42 → permalink

group portrait, soccer team (with Steve, Randy, and Anne, et al), College Park, Maryland, April 1985

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portrait, Beth
  • place: Harper's Ferry, Maryland

11::May::2012 23:15 → permalink

portrait, Beth, Harper's Ferry, Maryland, April 1985

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portrait, Ian
  • place: Arvada, Colorado

11::May::2012 13:30 → permalink

portrait, Ian, Arvada, Colorado, May 2012

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portrait, Cathy
  • place: Brooklyn, New York

11::May::2012 09:50 → permalink

portrait, Cathy, Brooklyn, New York, April 1985

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a day at the mines

10::May::2012 16:34 → permalink

current tailings in Vindicator Valley, Victor, Colorado, September 2011

An afternoon drive/ramble with Karen and a couple of her friends over to Victor, Colorado, not far from (above!) Cripple Creek to the (AngloGold Ashanti) Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine area. It’s been awhile since I’ve been on-location at a major extractives scene. My god. At one point I counted more than 25 250-ton dump trucks operating within sight. We toured the abandoned mining area first — the “Vindicator Valley” trail — then went to several overlooks to see the current tailings dump area and then the open pit which is over a mile across and about 1000 feet deep. After a break at Kathy’s Kitchen in downtown Victor, we stop by the old Sunnyside Cemetery which sits below the cyanide leach field for the Ashanti mine. Back at the cabin, Ron whipped up a great dinner (even though I am not a huge fan of steak, it was great, though a bit much to make it through!).

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portrait, Jason
  • place: Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland

09::May::2012 10:52 → permalink

portrait, Jason, Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland, April 1985

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portrait, Gary, Mason, and Akiri
  • place: Capitol Hill, NE, Washington, D.C.

06::May::2012 10:22 → permalink

portrait, Gary, Mason, and Akiri, Capitol Hill, NE, Washington, D.C., April 1985

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group portrait, Amy’s birthday party
  • place: above Mitten Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado

05::May::2012 18:13 → permalink

group portrait, Amy's birthday party, Chris and Amy's, Boulder, Colorado, May 2012

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bed, the yurt
  • place: Glade Park, Colorado

30::April::2012 15:18 → permalink

what more to ask — to spend several nights in The Yurt I helped to put up a couple years ago… Collin and Marisa have got it set up very comfy, (the stove will easily dispel a -20˚F night!). and the guest book is the floor (Sharpies available for all comers). sun salutations on the deck overlooking the canyon are exquisite!

bed in the yurt, Glade Park, Colorado, April 2012

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.50 calibre sacrifice
  • place: Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

26::April::2012 15:29 → permalink

sacrifice, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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.50 calibre sacrifice
  • place: Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

26::April::2012 14:32 → permalink

sacrifice, Upper Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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sacrifice: gloves
  • place: Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

25::April::2012 18:23 → permalink

sacrifice: gloves, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

They may look fine on the backs, but the palms are trashed and shredded, they’ve been used for a decade of fire-tending at chill campsites around the west, after a useful career in colder places. Not even sure where I got them, but I suspect in Iceland in the early 1990s. They’ve had a good life.

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self-portrait, Upper Sand Canyon
  • place: Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado

25::April::2012 13:27 → permalink

self-portrait, Upper Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, April 2012

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.50 calibre sacrifice
  • place: Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

25::April::2012 13:26 → permalink

sacrifice, Upper Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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portrait, Heidi and James
  • place: Echo Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado

24::April::2012 10:13 → permalink

portrait, Heidi and James, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, April 2012

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.50 calibre sacrifice
  • place: Red Rock Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

23::April::2012 15:20 → permalink

sacrifice, Red Rock Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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.50 calibre sacrifice
  • place: Red Rock Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

23::April::2012 12:14 → permalink

sacrifice, Red Rock Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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sacrifice: empty pen
  • place: Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

22::April::2012 18:26 → permalink

sacrifice: empty pen, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

Staedtler pigment liner 0.3, Art. Nr. 308 03-9, EAN 40 07817 330418

I had the ‘ex’ send me four of these from Iceland a couple years back, but am on the last one now, they don’t do to well in hot & dry situations. But otherwise, they are an excellent and clean substitute for my exploding Koh-i-noor India Ink drafting pens which were just too sensitive to changing air pressure (i.e., flying), and had to be totally disassembled and cleaned prior to any travel. The beauty of the line, and the feel of the metal tip on paper was superlative, but the hassle was too much for the traveler to bear.

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.50 calibre sacrifice
  • place: Upper Pool Creek Spring (east), Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

21::April::2012 15:13 → permalink

sacrifice, Upper Pool Creek Spring (east), Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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self-portrait, near Upper Pool Creek
  • place: Echo Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado

21::April::2012 12:55 → permalink

self-portrait with cottonwood, near Upper Pool Creek, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, April 2012

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Day 3 – a short circuit
  • place: above Mitten Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado

18::April::2012 16:31 → permalink

petroglyphs, Mitten Park, Colorado, April 2012

wanted to check if a round-about way to get to the top of the bench was possible via heading to Mitten Park, and ascending the end of the bench there. nope, not without some serious bouldering or even technical climbing. got up pretty far, but the as the rocks are severely distressed at the fault itself, everything gets unstable. I quit where the trees stopped growing! good day for just looking around at everything along with a little initial off-road cardio. the cryptobiotic soil is always something to visually decode along with the lichen and other symbiotic expressions.

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.50 calibre sacrifice
  • place: Sand Canyon, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

18::April::2012 12:49 → permalink

sacrifice, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, April 2012

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Day 2 – a short circuit
  • place: Pat's Draw, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado

17::April::2012 18:39 → permalink

Steamboat Rock, Echo Park, Colorado, April 2012

a short circuit to recall the textures and to reacquaint the senses with the essences of place — sky, rock, earth, plants, former occupants, etc: the basics. starting with a quick overview of Echo Park from the southern wall (a of the first two images), following that complexly eroding wall along to Pool Creek, then across to some nice petroglyphs.

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self-portrait, arrival
  • place: Echo Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado

17::April::2012 11:45 → permalink

self-portrait, arrival, Echo Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, April 2012

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portrait, Joshua
  • place: Stavanger, Norway

12::April::2012 09:59 → permalink

portrait, Joshua, Stavanger, Norway, July 1988

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portrait, Sabine with her cat, in the cloister of the Cathédrale Saint-Vincent
  • place: Chalon-sur-Saône, France

11::April::2012 22:05 → permalink

portrait, Sabine with her cat, in the cloister of the Cathédrale Saint-Vincent, Chalon-sur-Saône, France, July 1989

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portrait, Patty, Victor, Evon, and Mike
  • place: Golden, Colorado

02::April::2012 22:31 → permalink

portrait, Patty, Victor, Evon, and Mike, Golden, Colorado, March 2012

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bed
  • place: Arvada, Colorado

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bed, Arvada, Colorado, December 2011

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portrait, The Force (victorious)
  • place: Pueblo, Colorado

29::October::2011 17:21 → permalink

The Force (victorious), Pueblo, Colorado, October 2011

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some time in a later era
  • place: Grays Peak, Colorado

11::September::2011 09:59 → permalink

WTC, from Jersey City, October 1986

badly developed negative fourteen years before the demise of these monuments.

on a day spent at altitude (zenith at 14,278 feet (4352 m.) up Grays Peak); with hypersonic overflights of military aircraft, some close enough to distinguish under-wing weapon arrays. are they joy-flying on regular deployments, or is this some memorial act?

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self-portrait on the Continental Divide
  • place: Continental Divide at Cottonwood Pass, Colorado

07::September::2011 13:33 → permalink

self-portrait, Continental Divide at Cottonwood Pass, Colorado, September 2011

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bed, near Mirror Lake
  • place: near Mirror Lake in the Collegiates, Colorado

06::September::2011 17:21 → permalink

bed, near Mirror Lake in the Collegiates, Colorado, September 2011

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cyber-break
  • place: Mill Creek Valley, Colorado

06::September::2011 11:54 → permalink

group portrait, Mill Creek, Colorado, September 2011

a couple hours online between bouts of wild(er)ness solo and with old friends. have a long conversation with a solo hiker up in Mill Creek this morning. Steve lives out of his modest Toyota RV, a retired engineer, spends 5 months a year hiking in the Colorado high country.

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bed, Mill Creek
  • place: Mill Creek, West Elk Wilderness, Colorado

05::September::2011 16:56 → permalink

bed, Mill Creek, West Elk Wilderness, Colorado, September 2011

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portrait, Beth, [?], and Karen
  • place: Victor, Colorado

03::September::2011 13:40 → permalink

Beth, (??), and Karen, Victor, Colorado, September 2011

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bed, Karen and Ron’s cabin
  • place: near Florissant, Colorado

03::September::2011 06:55 → permalink

bed, Karen and Ron's cabin, near Florissant, Colorado, September 2011

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bed, Sand Dunes
  • place: Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

26::August::2011 07:57 → permalink

bed, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, August 2011

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.50 calibre sacrifice
  • place: Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

25::August::2011 16:53 → permalink

sacrifice, Great Sand Dunes, Colorado, August 2011

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self-portrait at the Center of the Universe
  • place: Center of the Universe, San Luis Valley, Colorado

24::August::2011 15:52 → permalink

self-portrait, Center of the Universe, San Luis Valley, Colorado, August 2011

Thirty years plus a few weeks since the original visit to the Center of the Universe. What does it reveal?

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at the Center
  • place: Center of the Universe, San Luis Valley, Colorado

24::August::2011 15:03 → permalink

Center of the Universe, San Luis Valley, Colorado, August 2011

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.50 calibre sacrifice
  • place: Continental Divide at Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado

24::August::2011 13:20 → permalink

sacrifice, Continental Divide at Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado, August 2011

I decide to initiate a new series for the sacrifice project — this time, using the large bag of .50 caliber machine gun bullets collected out on the gunnery range on the expansive salt flat south of Wendover last year. The brass sheathings on the “balls” are weathered green from time and brine. These evidences of the military-industrial complex need to be re-distributed back around the west.

Cartridge, Caliber .50, Ball, M2

Cartridge, Caliber .50, Ball, M2. Used by M2 and M85 machine guns. The cartridge is intended for use against personnel or unarmored targets. The cartridge is identified by a plain bullet (“ball”). Type Classification: STD – OTCM 36841

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.50 calibre sacrifice with fly
  • place: near Wolf Creek, Colorado

24::August::2011 10:04 → permalink

sacrifice with fly, near Wolf Creek, Colorado, August 2011

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bed, near Wolf Creek
  • place: near Wolf Creek, San Juan National Forest, Colorado

24::August::2011 09:09 → permalink

bed, near Wolf Creek, Colorado, August 2011

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