Good-luck cat / Gato buena suerte / Chat de bonne chance

Monochrome

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange
Monochrome & Black & White photographs
Good-luck cat / Gato buena suerte / Chat de bonne chance

Good-luck cat / Gato buena suerte / Chat de bonne…

08 May 2017 2 2 891
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ― Cormac McCarthy Taken in a Chinese restaurant in Oregon, with my GX8 camera.
My friend Olaf

My friend Olaf

15 Jun 2017 5 6 1342
“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Bengard Broccoli

Bengard Broccoli

16 Jun 2017 1 1021
“Don't be a salad, be the best damn broccoli you could ever be.” ― PewDiePie Vegetable garbage pile behind a supermarket in Talent, Oregon.
Truck on the Highway

Truck on the Highway

18 Jun 2017 4 6 1327
“The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate.” ― Hunter S. Thompson 18-wheeler truck parked by the side of the highway which runs between Talent and Ashland, in southern Oregon. Taken with an infrared-converted Lumix GX1.
Electric Power Meter

Electric Power Meter

06 Jul 2017 3 1076
“There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.” ― Bram Stoker Electric power meter in downtown Talent, Oregon.
Abandoned Couch

Abandoned Couch

09 Jul 2017 8 9 1659
Es una casa tan grande la ausencia que pasarás en ella a través de los muros y colgarás los cuadros en el aire. (Pablo Neruda) Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. Abandoned couch in the town of Talent, Oregon.
Hand in hand / Mano en mano / De main en main

Hand in hand / Mano en mano / De main en main

16 Jul 2017 9 10 1410
The hand is a fragment of a tiny old Japanese ivory doll/sculpture that belonged to my mother.
Supermarket Frog

Supermarket Frog

17 Jul 2017 3 4 1209
“If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.” ― Dan Rather Plastic toy frog for sale in the local supermarket in Talent, Oregon.
Tattooed Mannequin

Tattooed Mannequin

25 Jul 2017 1 948
“When I got the tattoo, I knew I was drawing a crooked line between myself and society.” ― Warren Ellis A tattooed mannequin in a shopwindow, in Ashland, Oregon.
Rusted rural machinery

Rusted rural machinery

27 Jul 2017 1 904
“A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin Rusted machines in the front yard of a rural home, outside of Gold Hill, Oregon.
Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger

27 Jul 2017 15 8 1477
“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask...” ― Vladimir Nabokov “We are all born mad. Some remain so.” ― Samuel Beckett Taking a photo of a reflection of a photo of the photographer.
Chevy

Chevy

28 Jul 2017 6 2 1256
“I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.” ― Sam Shepard Chevrolet sedan parked on the street in a southern Oregon town that hasn't changed that much since the 1950's.
Stuffed Dog

Stuffed Dog

31 Jul 2017 4 2 872
“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.” ― Dave Barry Stuffed toy dog, in an emporium in Ashland, Oregon.
Masked girl / Chica enmascarada

Masked girl / Chica enmascarada

31 Jul 2017 4 1 1029
“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?” ― Søren Kierkegaard A visiting friend, wearing her "Wolverine" hoodie.
My friend Bob

My friend Bob

21 Jul 2017 6 1084
“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.” ― Groucho Marx My friend Bob Thomas, hangin' at the local coffee shop in Talent, Oregon.
Big Girl chair

Big Girl chair

03 Aug 2017 9 3 1095
“Chairs are useful” ― Stephen Moffat Opal sitting in her Big Girl chair at the table.
Park trash / Basura bosque / Poubelle nature

Park trash / Basura bosque / Poubelle nature

06 Aug 2017 6 6 1217
“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.” ― Ray Bradbury Trash can in the park adjacent to the bike path in Talent, Oregon.
Rings

Rings

31 Jul 2017 5 3 1138
"We will have rings and things and fine array." (William Shakespeare) My friend D.H. showing me his rings.
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