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i love to document-- to photograph, to observe, to sense. most of the photos i take, i'm not going to share here. i'll update this every once in a while with things that particularly strike me, i imagine. i absolutelyd destroyed the quality of these (especially DSLR ones) so this site could load, but they should still look alright

moments

a photo of a lecture slide depicting Constantin Brâncuși's The Kiss (Le Baiser) two open sushi boxes, a red bean cake, and a white peach calpico. my & my girlfriend's hands making a little heart around our two drinks-- a matcha lemonade and a haldi doodh. a photo of a sidewalk from on the sidewalk, with trees overhanging and a golden light coming through from the sun. two plushes: one of a seal with a little captain's outfit, and the other a rooster with sly eyes, leaning over the shoulder of the first. pigeon & moth from sister wife sex strike playing in the pit with us, the crowd! A photo of a campfire from between two people. A photo of an empty parking lot, a bright white picket fence behind it, and some pretty mountains and a city covered in fog behind that. An up-close photo of a prickly pear cactus and all its flowers, fruit, and pads. A photo of a set of plantation shutters (awful name, I know) in my room, with light being cast on them from headlights flooding through the shutters across the room. A photo of a large meadow with a lot of aspen behind it, and a fence in front of it-- close to the camera. A photo of a large sew shop, with lots of tables and equipment. The entire place as wooden and has a lot of beams on the ceiling. There are a few skylights that let a lot of light in and stream down, making it look sort of holy. A photo of my hand rested on the shell of a long-dead horseshoe crab. a very, very low urban river. the walls of the riverbed have graffiti all overr them & you can see a bridge and lots of car's lights in the distance. it's dusk, and the sky is a blue-purple-gray. a photo of an open train door-- the inside is dark and warm colored, with a yellow light streaming in. you can see a bench and a truck passing by through the door. a photo of the main altar at the montreal notre-dame basilica with beautiful blue lights and lots of statues of biblical figures a photo overlooking a city and freeway, with mountains and a mostly clear sky [just a few clouds]. some bushes sit in the foreground, on the hill i'm on. A photo through an open train door of a person in a black coat and red hat applying some lip gloss. A pot that is split down the middle, with mushrooms in a brown broth on the left and a red and brown-yellow broth on the right. a photo of a sort of green/black/yellow shimmering caterpillar climbing along the stem of a purple flower a black caterpillar with white stripes and a yellow horn sitting in the center of a white flower with a yellow center A close-up photo of what seems like little mushrooms/spores on a tree trunk. an overhead photo of two dogs curled up into little donuts on a couch. the one on the left is black and white and fluffy, and the one on the right is black with little brown eyebrows and little spots of white on her neck. a photo of a puffin laying in a loaf position on the floor! a young, still wet brown bird stares down at the concrete with its head tilted and its eyes sort of closed. the photo zooms very close in on it, as it is quite far away.

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a torso selfie of myself in a brown sap (band) t-shirt with a flannel underneath, a chunky necklace, acid-washed jeans, and some kandi bracelets. a torso selfie of myself with my battle jacket and a fun printed button up underneath. you can see a DSLR hanging around my neck and the strap of a bag on my shoulder. a body selfie of me with my dog laying across my lap and the book martyr! by my side. i'm wearing a flannel, shorts, and a trap girl t-shirt. a communal ofrenda with a photo of my great grandmother holding baby me on it. A side profile of a person with a glued-up mohawk, with a black shirt and choker on. Behind hir is a wall with a black, yellow, grey, and white mural across it. A very blurry and zoomed in photo of a brown person with mid-length brown hair reading a poem on a stage. He is dressed in a long sage green silk skirt, a black sports bra, and a patched together jersey-top. A photo of a blue-black bass guitar with its neck laying against a backpack. A tan wood-stained guitar lays on the backpack with its neck on top of the bass's. a photo of a piece of artwork of a burning candle on the lap of a person, with a room spanning out in front of them that has little mats with candles on the floor and lots of drawings posted on the walls. it's an interactive art gallery exhibit. A photo of a person with medium-length brown hair in a black Dickie's jacket with pins on it, gray slacks with arms screenprinted on it reaching up from the bottom of the legs, and a colorful scard. It's a mirror pic. A selfie of myself with a black tanktop, a black Dickie's jacket with pins on it, and dark blue work pants with little green and white dyed patches on it. A selfie of a person with a curly mohawk and a pair of black over-ear headphones on, listening to an interactive part of an art exhibit. Behind him, a red sign says 'FUNK STATON 2.' A mirror selfie of a brown person with a curly mohawk and a battle jacket on. a several-table long assembly line with different pots of food on it and people serving it as part of our food not bombs chapter. i'm in there somewhere! a photo of a low, portable table atop a picnic blanket in a grassy park. the table has two plates with stir fry noodles on them alongside a container of noodles, a container of oranges, a container of apples, two little glasses of cream soda, and the big glass bottle of cream soda. a little green speaker sits in front, too

portfolio-worthy (who cares)

A father pays for his two young daughters, excited behind him, at a juice and smoothie stand that's bright and colorful [mostly blues and oranges]. Zebras graze in a large brown, grassy field that elevates slowly into a mountain. Two zebras in the front press their foreheads together. A gray cat walks toward the camera from around the corner. Most of the photo is in the shadow, with a small triangle of light coming from the corner of the building. A yellow train pulls into a fairly gray and concrete station from inside a tunnel. Vines creep up one wall of the station, and a bright blue sky is visible behind it all. A photo of a train station in a sort of blue and purple light. You can see the speckled light that got filtered through the trees and a train pulling into the station in the distance. A photo of a man in a dark denim jacket walking toward a big trashbin at the corner of a building. The edge of the building splits almost down the middle of the photo, with the left side in the shadow, and the right in the light. The top half of the photo is simply sky. In the bottom half, you can see some wisteria hanging off of an overhang alongside the tops of lots of buildings. A zoomed in photo of a light pink flower with a few light yellow-green leaves. Behind it is a light blue sky. A white flower takes up the center of the photo, with little buds, stems, and leaves growing around it. In the background, you can see a eucalyptus tree and a soft periwinkle sky. A photo from a balcony in a Lake Atitlan town, of the skyline with the buildings in front of them, the lake, and the mountains, with layered clouds covering much of them. A photo of a winding roadway with a tall bush with flowers on one side of it, palm trees on the other side, and a bridge in the background. You can see purple-gray mountains and a light blue sky in the even further background. A photo of a playhouse with a gray exterior and sage green accents. The photo has a sort of pink tint, and there's a tree with pink flowers posed outside of it. The head and very top of the neck of a giraffe looking on toward the camera. Behind it is a blue-purple evening sky. A lion with warm eyes looks to the camera, hidden slightly behind the leaves and branches of a tree. He takes up most of the frame. A little cart with two men in it moves down a stone road away from the camera. On the left, a lot of palms burst out from behind a stone wall, and on the right, a big tree branches out over the street. Three lionesses sit on a grassy hill together. The front ones' muzzle is still stained red from their last meal. She looks to the side, the one behind her looks toward the camera, and the last one just lays down. A fluffy yellow bird with a black face and very angry eyes perches on the edge of a van. A baboon with no arms walks on its back legs away from the camera. The light is warm on his fur. A family of baboons walks away from the camera-- two adults walking beside one child, and the adult in front carrying a baby on their back. The sun casts a warm light on them and the dirt road below them. A brown and gray feathered ostritch walks past a dirt road, its neck bent into sort of a U shape. One of its legs is in the air, in the middle of a step.