Decide what to be and go be it

All images are mine 

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Summer sunset through a window

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I have a stash of Polaroid lifts I made last year that were just sitting around and I’m having a great time playing with them.

I dwell in Possibility

- Emily Dickinson

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“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.”

- Leonard Cohen

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Lily in my front yard, June 2026

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The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love - love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend.

-Tennessee Williams

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"It is the glistening autumnal side of summer. I feel a cool vein in the breeze, which braces my thought, and I pass with pleasure over sheltered and sunny portions of the sand where the summer's heat is undiminished, and I realize what a friend I am losing."

– Henry David Thoreau

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First attempts at making a Polaroid emulsion lifts.

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Koi Pond at Anna Scripps Conservatory

Detroit, MI April 2025

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"Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything."

— Robert Browning

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There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

- Guy Gavriel Kay

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“When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it."

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Chiricahua National Monument, AZ

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January sunset in Tucson. AZ

2024

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“No road is long with good company”

Memories of Iceland

Shot on PenEE3 half frame 35 mm film camera

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One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

Shannon L. Alder