Shadows enable me to remain photographically faithful to visual facts while loosening literalness, making for ambiguity.  

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Houston, TX, 2008

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Houston, TX, 2009

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I enjoy this image for the community that it suggests.

Houston, TX, 2008

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Houston, TX, 2008

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Houston, TX, 2009

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Westerhausen, a German village, 2006

To make this exposure, I writhed under the kitchen table, annoying my hostess, whose hands making a salad are visible on the right. Her daughter looks on from the left.  

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Dylan Thomas on a good hair day?

Houston, TX, c, 2007

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I see here someone scornful with a beard, scowl, frown, pointed ears, and a bald pate. How literal are Rorschach tests?  Am I what I see (here), do I see what I am? What about play?

Houston, TX, c. 2007

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Rig Steak House, somewhere in TX, 2010

 

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Shadows here, together with what casts them, make for a network. 

Houston, TX, c. 2007

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May all your chairs melt so gracefully! 

in a friend's Zen garden, Austin, TX, c. 2009

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If shadows are included, I count eight arches (and a few bricks from a ninth) in this Greek Orthodox church building under construction.

Storrs, CT, c. 1995. 

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A print of this image provided a prisoner some mental recreation and solace.

Japanese Garden, Houston, TX, c. 2011

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