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This is an older shot from the Riverside Park in Spokane Washington. I believe this is one of my first outings with a digital slr. I went to the park often taking pictures of everything I could. A lot of those shots show up on this site.

I liked the reflective quality of the burnt bark. The area had suffered a large forest fire years before and was slowly recovering. From the holes in the bark, you can tell that the tree already had bug problems long before the fire got to it.

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<previous January 10 2005 - 01 Riverside Park, Spokane, WAnext>
Well there goes my New Year's resolution. "I am gonna post everyday", I told myself. Its not like I am gonna run out of photos..

This was a picture I took while I lived in Spokane and hiked down by Riverside Park. This male was keeping an eye on his family across the river. The area around their nest had been ravaged by a forest fire a few years before.

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<previous August 25 2004 - 01 Riverside Park, Spokane, Washingtonnext>

I find it interesting that so much of my life revolves around light. This site is full of pictures capturing it. My job at work is to create stories and images out of little squares of colored light.

One of my photography teachers, when I was in school, taught the science behind light as part of his courses. He was a big inspiration to me, more for his passion for it than anything else. He really made you understand the complex nature and harmony that enters your lens.

Ansel Adams used his experience in music in working on his photographs. He saw scales in his pictures, as in his music. It is hard not to think of that when I am at work adjusting colors to be just right. People often say that images aren't as powerful as music... but I think when you tune them, those frequencies of light, they sing.

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I had intended these to be the last images I posted before leaving Spokane, but as it is, I forgot and was on the road to LA. Thought they were a good farewell to the area.

Both were taken on the same day as the sun set in one view and the moon rose from another.
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<previous March 06 2003 - 01 next>

With the trees gone the smaller plants have a chance to flourish...

... along a trail....

...in the bare branches....

.... or on the edge of the riverbank.

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<previous March 05 2003 - 01 next>

A river (Spokane or Little Spokane River, not sure which this part is) runs through the area where the fire took place. The fire actually jumped it. As the days went by I began to explore the riverbank. I began with the idea of capturing the brilliant sunsets reflected in the river as the fire must have been when it reached the river.

These shots I took completely on different days. I was trying to catch the many colors the sky was during the days I was there. The sunset each day on the hill which can be seen in the picture from yesterdays post.

The sky slowly visited each range of the spectrum before its color faded and it quietly exited to give the stars their time. It was silent and remarkable. I will always envy the colors of the skies here. I have never seen anything like it.

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Since this is my last week in Spokane I thought it would be cool to show some of the first pictures I took here with my camera.

When I first got my camera, I spent the first few weeks heading down to Riverside Park before sunset everyday after work. I hiked mostly through an area that had been ravaged by a fire years before. I wanted to explore the idea of regrowth after such an event. Here a young sapling sprouts from the remains of other evergreens.

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<previous February 05 2003 - 01 next>
Same as it ever was... (Belated Birthday Post)

"Into the blue again, into the silent water... Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground...."

The world is my beautiful house. This is my beautiful life. How did I get here? My god, look at what I have done. Where does that highway go?

"same as it ever was... letting the days go by... water flowing under... letting the days go by.. here comes the twister.... same as it ever was..once in a lifetime..."

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