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self-portrait with partial annular eclipse
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portrait, Brett and Rick
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portrait, Mike and Isabelle
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group portrait, outing
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portrait, brothas
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portrait, Debbie
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portrait, Susan
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group portrait, Hard Times Cafe soccer team
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portrait, Beth
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portrait, Ian
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portrait, Cathy
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a day at the mines
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
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portrait, Gary, Mason, and Akiri
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group portrait, Amy’s birthday party
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bed, the yurt
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!
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.50 calibre sacrifice
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.50 calibre sacrifice
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sacrifice: gloves
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
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portrait, Heidi and James
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.50 calibre sacrifice
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.50 calibre sacrifice
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sacrifice: empty pen
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
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self-portrait, near Upper Pool Creek
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Day 3 – a short circuit
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
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Day 2 – a short circuit
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
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portrait, Joshua
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portrait, Sabine with her cat, in the cloister of the Cathédrale Saint-Vincent
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portrait, Patty, Victor, Evon, and Mike
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bed
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portrait, The Force (victorious)
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some time in a later era
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
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bed, near Mirror Lake
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cyber-break
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
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portrait, Beth, [?], and Karen
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bed, Karen and Ron’s cabin
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bed, Sand Dunes
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self-portrait at the Center of the Universe
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
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.50 calibre sacrifice
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. 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
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bed, near Wolf Creek
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