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Last year at this time I was reeling from cancelling my first solo photography exhibit. A gallery I used to volunteer with in Portland when I lived there totally changed my artistic statement without my consent, so I said fuck that.

The week I was there I ended up putting around to see if there was anything I actually missed about PDX. There was remarkably little, like this ‘63 Dynamic 88 at a repair shop, a few record stores, Bröder..

I look back to move on, I’m trying to ignore that my biggest supporter then is opening his own photo exhibit a year to the day that I did not. I remember that my desire to see the world is perhaps never gonna meet academic gallery space criteria and just keep at it.

Let the sterility of such spaces be for those that regurgitate the same vision, knowing damn well they’re ghosts where I take chances to capture life.

#filmphotography #photography #35mm #Rocket88 #yourfathersoldsmobile #meanstreetsofportland

Okay, clearly one thing you’ll always get me to waste a frame on is how ridiculous billboard lawyers and their slogans are. Ain’t no way I’d be out in multiple streets playing up a stereotype, but do you Anh Phoong.

#filmphotography #photography #35mm #somethingwrongcallanhphoong #girlwut

A very rare 1967 AMC Rebel convertible sits amongst debris and trash with a “something wrong? Call Anh Phoong” billboard in the background.

I’m going to die if I call and this man barks at me as a way to answer the call.

#35mm #filmphotography #photography #absurdbillboards #itsalwayssunnyinphiladelphia

A billboard shouts at its audience “CALL TOP DOG” with some regular schmo lawyer with a shit resting grin on his face

“Sitting here on the bench
With my back against the fence
Wondering if I have any sense
Something tells me I'm a fool
To let you treat me so cruel
But nevertheless, I say again
You got me waiting…”

#35mm #filmphotography #photography #meanstreetsofsanfrancisco #askthelonely

Someone sits with their bike alone on a green park bench under trees in a park

A little in-joke I have with myself is that the Bay is vast, but it's not that deep. So much mud, so much muck, barely beneath its supposed majesty.

#35mm #Filmphotography #photography #landscape #sittingonthedockofthebay

3 concrete benches are mid field past some coastal brush, overlooking San Francisco Bay slight south of both the Dumbarton Road and Rail Bridge. In the far background lies the Coyote Hills, a layer of contrasting clouds and blue skies.

GTO + Art Deco.

#35mm #Filmphotography #photography #aparkedcar #PontiacGTO #carbutts #nicebuttsofbluesky

A 1968 Pontiac GTO is parked across the street from the Terra Cotta facade of the I Magnin Building Downtown Oakland.

Breaks out that 45 of The Shangri-La’s “Sweet Sounds Of Summer” while fully acknowledging solstice is still a full month off.

#filmphotography #photography #35mm #ilikelongwalksonthebeach

Blue skies, gentle sea and beach just beyond the shadows of a restaurant table

All I’m going to say is, even when I leave this place, this place I’ve called home for 42 years, I’ll still have a far better understanding of it & its people than most. I leave because that’s frightening to many. Tired of paying the price of knowing.

#filmphotography #35mm #landscape #SFbay

A radio tower points skyward next to an abandoned radio station in the salt flats of the southern Bay Area.

When you’ve realize imitation isn’t flattery, just pure envy. I’ve passed this way before, interesting to see it half a decade behind trend elsewhere.

Anyways, a throwback to March, 2019.

#35mm #filmphotography #photography #darkshadowsandemptyhallways #pointrichmomd #flashbackfriday

Light streams through an open window casting light in a graffiti tagged abandoned ferry landing warehouse.

Mid evening light & shadow will always be my favorite. Also that sunroom clearly gets the best afternoon light.

#35mm #filmphotography #photography #thisoldhouse #goldenhour #oakland

Afternoon light and shadow drapes in a diagonal fashion over the west face of a turn of the century craftsman house.

Afternoon Tea?

Afternoon delight?

Why choose...

#35mm #filmphotography #photography #teaandsympathy #skyrocketsinflight #afternoondelight #camping #letsgetawayfromitall

an orange kettle sits on top of an avocado green gas stove in a camper kitchen in diffused light.

Who is more suspicious to whom? I dunno, for me at least I'm not gonna take the presence of two black cats lightly.

#35mm #filmphotography #porchsitting #cats #streetphotography #ablackcatcrossedmypath

Two Black cats look curiously towards the photographer while sitting on a porch of a a pale pistachio green victorian house

Yes even the Accord my Aunt Stephanie had when I was 10 is a classic car now. I am old.

#35mm #filmphotography #oldparkedcar #photography #HondaAccord

A weathered 1990-91 Honda Accord EX is parked on the street in front of turn of the century Victorian and Edwardian houses

I’ve gotten in the habit of taking portraits of the bouquets I pick from the yard. A reminder that love is ever shifting, but somehow safer than the trappings of ‘safety’ this dying society offers. Let whatever bouquet you tend to surprise you.

#filmphotography #35mm #sendmenoflowers #flowers

A bouquet of yellow, pink and red roses sits in a deep green vase on a table. A chicken shaped toothpick holder sits nearby.

My brain is a jukebox & as I walk sometimes it’ll just

…”The sidewalks in the street
The concrete & the clay beneath my feet
Begins to crumble
But love will never die
Because we'll see the mountains tumble
Before we say goodbye.”

(& here’s the picture of…)

#filmphotography #35mm #photography