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When I had hair.
Sill busy too busy to go shoot. This is from my transfer project. I think from May of 1997, taken at Des Moines Water Works Park.
Remember, love thy neighbor. You never know when you will need to borrow their snowblower. B
@ 2015 Jean Graham
This was a tough assignment. When I was a child our Uncle lived with us and he would give me and my siblings a dime every day. I would save it up and at the end of the week we could bring money to school with a passbook and they would deposit our money into a bank account. They would enter the amount in the passbook. Perhaps this is why I am pretty good at saving!
This seems like a lifetime ago but it was almost exactly five years ago (9-1-2021) when I delivered this windmill blade to the big White Hills wind-farm east of US 93 in northwest Arizona. The blade it was replacing had been struck by lightning and was hanging bent over when they initially checked it and by the next morning, it had finally broken free and was on the ground at the base of the tower. The crawler crane in the background would be lowering the hub and remaining two blades to the ground where the replacement blade I had transported would be attached in place of the broken portion.
I don't post a lot of images from my various work over the years but thought this might be interesting for some. I began driving trucks back in 1993 (I've been trying to "escape" ever since about the second year, I think... lol) after leaving a decade of radio stations behind (I returned again 2000-2002 but it was a dying media by then). I rarely have time to shoot images when in a truck and this was a rare occasion while I and my steerman (the person that steers the trailer axles at road intersections and within the various wind farms or blade yards) had to wait for the equipment to arrive to lift the blade off the trailer. I often miss the challenges of moving these blades and I did well with them but I make far better money driving winch trucks in the oilfield. Seems backwards to me but such is life, eh?
For those in the US, enjoy the Labor Day weekend and, if traveling, be safe. Please give trucks more room when passing and returning to the lane in front of them? The extra wheels do not mean we can stop faster and the modern-day sensors that tell you when you've cleared other vehicles are junk when it comes to safe following distances for a big truck. Everyone is always in such a big rush to be "first" in line or to arrive 30 seconds sooner or to pass a truck only to make a turn a half-mile down the road... Get off the phone or the huge distracting screen in your center console and actually drive with a brain, please? Thanks... Gripe over. ;)
Dig if you will the picture
Of you and I engaged in a kiss
The sweat of your body covers me
Can you my darling
Can you picture this?
While taking photos of a church in Grayson, Saskatchewan I noticed what I at first thought was a coyote in a vacant lot nearby. It was a red fox grooming itself. It was not bothered by three photographers moving closer to take photos. When I knelt down to get a lower angle this is how the fox reacted.
When it rains, I don't mind being lonely, I cry right along with the sky
When it rains, I don't pretend to be happy, I don't even have to try
When it rains, Some people get down, They're sporting a frown, so I fit right in
Yeah, the sun may brighten your day but if I had my way, I'd take the rain
A Very Old Pic, And yes thats a rain drop.
Amtrak's Empire Builder was a few minutes into its trip to the Pacific Northwest as it zips across Techny Road back in 2002.
Two P42DCs and a F40PH had a long train full of passengers and mail and express heading through the northern suburbs of Chicagoland.
We rise again
The night is our promised land
The day is our masquerade
There's no salvation here to find
No mercy for what's left behind
When I first started making this series of images I really did think of them from the outset as a series of portraits. I did this because I wanted to make something different than pictures of objects... or parts of a landscape, even if these trees are those things too. So I considered them portraits, doing a bit of personification in the process. It is a creative venture but one that allows me to think of these trees in a different fashion. They are full of life after all. In that sense, you can also think of them as cities, or mass congregations of life. In the last two or three decades we have only begun to understand the teeming life found in such stumps and deadfall. They are homes to invertebrates and vertebrates, bugs and animals, flora and fauna. I have no way of measuring such a statistic but this old fellow right here may harbor thousands or tens of thousands of living creatures. We tend to see it as one thing: a stump, or a dead tree. But it is neither one thing nor dead.
Hasselblad 500C
Fuji Pro 160C
A young man looks up to the engine driver of wd 90733, perhaps asking how he may one day be an engine driver.
When walking or cycling on the Veluwe, this is a common sight: a Highland Cow in the middle of the road.
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Fun shot for a change. I was having lunch in a Subway in Folsom, Louisiana and while browsing through pics on the back of the camera I noticed this scene so I couldn't help but to shoot it! (Actually, tomatoes are a fruit!) :-)
When my dad was a kid, they judged a bumper crop of corn coming if it was knee-high by the Fourth of July. We're already past that milestone on the first full day of summer.
When I was young the answer was "Poke him in the eye!" But these days I suspect traffic and parking are enough to make a Maltese very cross indeed. Around Valletta and Sliema traffic is horrendous and parking no better, both a real nightmare. For a change there was nothing in front of this garage, so I was able to get my photo. But this was probably the exception to the rule...
Explored 22-9-2017
Watercolor on !/4 sheet Arches watercolor paper. I started this painting FOREVER ago and just couldn't finish it. It's that I don't like alizarin crimson.
When attracting parental care, nestling birds like these Blue-black Grassquits (Volatinia jacarina) open their mouths as wide as they can, displaying their colorful gape (inner mouth) surrounded by bright “lips” (called gape flanges). This configuration of visually conspicuous colors and shapes stimulate the parent bird to place food into the mouth of the hungry chick. Studies show that birds can recognize their own offspring by gape colouring, including clues visible only in the ultra-violet spectrum. It is also thought that baby birds advertise their fitness through their gape colouring, with the parent bird using this information to give extra food to the healthiest chicks. Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.