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Photographs taken with my micro 4/3 Panasonic Lumix cameras
Laughing head / Cabeza riéndose
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“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw
Laughing head sculpture in a Chinese restaurant in southern Oregon.
Good-luck cat / Gato buena suerte / Chat de bonne…
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“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.
Mirror Image
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“For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
My friend Olaf
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“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
Stuffed Shark
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"Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.”
― Neil Gaiman
A stuffed toy shark in the local organic community supermarket in Ashland, Oregon.
E. 6th Street, Medford, Oregon
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“Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question...”
― T.S. Eliot
East 6th Street in downtown Medford, Oregon, on a warm June night.
Bengard Broccoli
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“Don't be a salad, be the best damn broccoli you could ever be.”
― PewDiePie
Vegetable garbage pile behind a supermarket in Talent, Oregon.
la vie commence / life starts / la vida empieza
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La vie commence à cinquante ans, c'est vrai; à ceci près qu'elle se termine à quarante.
― Michel Houellebecq
Life begins at fifty, that’s true, inasmuch as it ends at forty.
La vida empieza a los cincuenta años, es cierto; con la salvedad de que termina a los cuarenta.
Late night ruminations after a long writing session.
Truck on the Highway
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“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.
Kids' Bathroom
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“Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.”
― Jim Butcher
Tiny cutout photos of siblings Opal & Ira decorate this kids' bathroom.
Tante Hélène's Typewriter
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“take a writer away from his typewriter
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning”
― Charles Bukowski
The typewriter my Aunt Helen - who preferred to be called Tante Hélène - wrote all her manuscripts, novels and books on. She is gone now but her words live on.
Dead Bird
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“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
― E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)
On the sidewalk, in Central Point, Oregon, a small dead bird lay there when I was walking along on a horribly hot June day. And part of me was thinking: well, at least if you're dead, the heat can't kill you.
Pee-Wee Herman doll
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"This was a particularly eerie doll."
― Augusten Burroughs
A large Pee-Wee Herman doll, given to me years ago, sitting in Chairy atop a bookcase in my writing office...and always smiling at me.
Free Toilet
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“I wanted nothing for free.
Nothing came for free at our place anyway.”
― Markus Zusak
Free toilet, being given away, out in front of a suburban house in a small town in southern Oregon.
Taken with the Lumix GX8 and the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens.
Baseball Fans
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“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”
― Leo Durocher
Baseball fans at a minor league baseball game in southern Oregon.
Roadkill
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“Be careful, or be roadkill!”
― Bill Watterson (Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection)
Dead squirrel / roadkill - on a heavily-trafficked rural street in Talent, Oregon.
Electric Power Meter
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“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.
Fresh Dairy
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“At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
Small supermarket in a small town in southern Oregon.
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