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Visual play, nice…

Seth Butler, Vermont Photographer

P.S. Greetings from sabbatical. New portfolio arriving later this year…

P.P.S. Have you ever heard of Rescue Breathing?

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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us, and call that handful of sand the world.

Robert M. Pirsig

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A recent excerpt from a photojournalism feature on the student governed ski patrol at Middlebury College Snow Bowl

Recent feature reportage excerpt and photojournalism essay from a Randolph Herald newspaper article on the Middlebury College Snow Bowl Student Ski Patrol in Hancock, Vermont.

Stewards of the Steeps

Every autumn, an Outdoor Emergency Care (OEC) course is offered at Middlebury College, taught by Sean Grzyb, ski patrol director, with guidance from the assistant director, and student-elected ski patrol co-presidents. The top-15 candidates who complete the OEC course are then invited to continue in their training, and begin a series of on-mountain skiing and/ or snowboarding physical skills tests, while being evaluated by their senior ski patrol members and staff along the way. After these skills tests are completed, a group of 7-10 “rookies” are elected by student members, and staff, based on a combination of overall medical performance, individual on-mountain physical performance, and any additional skills-sets they might be able to offer to the larger ski patrol staff. Once elected by their peers, student ski patrol members will be charged with providing emergency medical care, technical rescue services, general stewardship, and good humor for staff, skiers, and riders at the mountain, ultimately functioning as Snow Bowl ambassadors at large. As the student members gain experience on the mountain, they go on to train future rookies, with the majority of skills handed down from generation to generation in a familial manner. Not only is the ski patrol student-governed, and internally self-trained, they are one of only two private collegial student ski patrols in the nation—the other is nearby, at the Dartmouth Skiway.

The above coverage is an excerpt from a recent feature on the Middlebury Snow Bowl as commissioned by The Herald of Randolph.

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Vermont Women’s March in Montpelier

The largest protest crowd in the history of Vermont, assembled on the steps of the Vermont State House in Montpelier, in solidarity with the national Women’s March at the nation’s capital. A peaceful protest, Vermont Women's March had an estimated turnout of between 15,000 – 20,000 people. Montpelier became so crowded during the course of event, that inbound exits in surrounding towns were shut down on I-89 for the benefit of public safety, and many who had come to join the protest were turned away because they could not access the capitol city from the interstate.

Pictured above: Nicole Nelson, also known as "The Voice of Vermont", of the band Dwight and Nicole, performs God Bless America during the finale of the Vermont Women's March in Montpelier. Commissioned by The Herald of Randolph.

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Dear Robert Adams, you might just be one of America’s most prescient citizens…

WATCH: http://www.pbs.org/video/2365178810/

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Last Year in Small Town Vermont News…

A series of selects and outtakes from 2016 coverage of local events, in and around my hometown of Barnard, Vermont, as commissioned by The Herald of Randolph.

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It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Nassim Nicholas Taleb #Inspiration

Fireflies signal at the edge of the forest near Feast & Field Farmers’ Market. Barnard, Vermont. 2013.

This image is part of a long-form documentary project I have undertaken on sustainable living in Vermont with the working title: Defining Sustainability

#Vermont #Fireflies #Defining Sustainability #Fable Farm #Feast & Field Farmers’ Market #Fable Collective #Commissions #Vermont Photojournalist #Vermont Photographer #Vermont Documentary Photographer #Photography #Vermont Editorial Photographer #Wildness #Wilderness #Fable Farm Fermentory

Selects and outtakes from coverage of the March 1, 2016 annual Town Meeting at the Barnard Town Hall in Barnard, Vermont, as commissioned by The Herald of Randolph.

#Vermont #Barnard #Community #Vermont Photojournalist #Vermont Documentary Photographer #Commissions #Vermont Event Photographer #Events #Primary Election #Photojournalism #Documentary Photography #Events Photographer #OurHerald

Reminder: a community is the living idea of it’s inhabitants.

#Vermont #VT

Glad to report that Summer is alive and well in Barnard, Vermont

Taking in the landscape at Feast & Field Farmers' Market. Barnard, Vermont.

Feast and Field Farmers' Market in Barnard, Vermont is a group of friends, neighbors, farmers, artists & educators with a mission to grow food for the community and to connect people to the land and to one another. Partner farms and businesses include: Carin’s Kombucha, Camp Red Clover, Eastman Farm, Fable Farm Fermentory, Fable Farm Theatre, Heartwood Fable Collective Farm, Kiss the Cow Farm, and Merry Bones Tacos.

This image is part of a long-form documentary project I have undertaken on sustainable living in Vermont with the working title: Defining Sustainability

#Barnard #Vermont #Feast and Field Market #Fable Farm #Fable Farm Theatre #Eastman Farm #Carin's Kombucha #Kiss the Cow Farm #Camp Red Clover #Merry Bones Tacos #Vermont Photojournalist #Vermont Documentary Photographer #Vermont Commercial Photographer #VT #Commissions

Still life with a cold deck of logs. Barnard, Vermont.

This image is part of a long-form documentary project I have undertaken on sustainable living in Vermont with the working title: Defining Sustainability

#Seth Butler #Vermont Photographer #Defining Sustainability #Vermont Photojournalist #Land Use #Vermont Land Trust

Among material resources, the greatest, unquestionably, is the land. Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

—E. F. Schumacher

#Land Use #Inspiration #E. F. Schumacher #Defining Sustainability #Small Is Beautiful

Outside a temple anniversary festival. Bali, Indonesia. 2014.

Still life with wood pile. Barnard, Vermont.

This image is part of a long-form documentary project I have undertaken on sustainable living in Vermont with the working title: Defining Sustainability

#Homesteading #Barnard #Vermont #Silver Lake #Vermont Photographer #Vermont Photojournalist #Vermont Documentary Photographer #Defining Sustainability #Sustainable Living #Camp Life

" The answers will come, not from walking up to your farm and saying 'This is what I want… this is what I expect from you.' You walk up and you say 'What do you need?' and you commit yourself to say 'Alright, I know I'm not going to do any extensive damage here until I know what it is you are asking of me.' and this can't be hurried… To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial."

—Wendell Berry

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