everyday there's a way to do it just right

polaroid portraits shot in vernonia, while snow was still stuck to the ground.

what compels me to go

when we got to vernonia, we went looking for an old mill. we found it, sitting beside a lake, filled with graffiti and snow. it had no roof. i'll post more soon.

i knew right then that i'd been abducted

camera pointed at the window as the car hurtled toward vernonia and then the coast.

  

better not to quench your thirst

from that two

it's been a long time

are you free or are you tied up?

meat.

back to where i've been

i've been trying to clear away all the photos from last year, put them in their little digital folders for safe keeping and forgetting, and make room for new images and new places and all the new that a new year brings. i realized, though, that many of them never made it on here. so before i shut them away for good, i'm going to a do a few posts dedicated to these digital remnants.

you, you used to have all the answers

while i was in arizona for christmas, i took a few pictures of the place where i grew up. these are softtone polaroids of my childhood homes. the house on the left is my dad's. i spent some time there, but mostly i lived in the house to the right, with my mom. both are pretty smack dab in the middle of suburbia, just a few twists away from major streets lined with strip malls and palm trees.

i see you on a dark night

a few hours before new year's eve dinner, i ran out to the florida room, took a picture of the curtain in their photobooth and made two huge printouts. casey and i hung them up on her bookshelf and made friends take portraits. here are some of my favorites. (the whole set is up here.)