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photojournal 2024

24.07

Sunflowers outside La Montanita Co-op in Santa Fe; Behind them you can see the parking lot and the mountains Sign for Chikin Drip, which seems like a parody of fast food; a cartoon bug-eyed chicken head holds its mouth open, breathing fire, next to the words Chikin Drip on an industrial-finish kind of modern fast food building Shot of the hill alongside the Bunny Trail in Carmel; yellow monkey flower along with other native plants crowd the hillside, with some large granite boulders sticking out toward the top; a mature cypress tree peeks out from behind the hill; the sky is featureless overcast Close up of the fire pit at Indian Summer; it has got granite as well as shards of clear and blue glass covering the basin and obscuring the gas valves the flames are emerigng from. Huge light pole in the Monterey Skate Park which lights the baseball field adjacent, from the base looking up; It is covered in graffiti and stickers Verdant stream at the bottom of Robinson Canyon, with towering tres and ferns abound. Huge dead tree with its broken limbs hanging like spider legs Elaborate painting of a spotted salamander on an abandoned building; my friends are visible walking around the corner to see inside the building. Sunset across the monterey bay from Seaside, looking towards Monterey/Carmel. Fog hangs over the carmel hills and bleeds into the bay. View across Santa Fe to the east showing dark clouds hanging ominously above the mountains.

24.06

Colorful stage/AV setup for Sol Sunday with flowers, reflective mesh fabric, multicolored umbrella, etc, with the railyard district in the background. Clouds casting shadows on the mountains northeast of Santa Fe. Verdant tiny waterfall in the back trail of Big Tesuque AV and networking cabling coming off the wall near the kegs and following a steel girder to the opposite wall in Nuckolls Brewery

24.05

Lighting for the DeVargas park enabled at sunset, against a healthy deciduous tree.

24.04

Cheeky Captain America sticker telling people to do their patriotic duty and punch fascists. It is stuck to a City of Santa Fe bike rack. Blue iris that was in bloom outside my apartment building View across Sand Beach from Great Head, on Mount Dessert Island: rocky vantage point through pines across the rough water and the mixed rock/sand shore

24.03

Stark sandstone cliff against a beautiful blue and white mottled sky Betterday Records sign amidst the apricot tree at night Left half of the backside of a white late-2000s Toyota camry, with various stickers. The most prominent reads: some of you have never heard about psyops and it shows. Others show support for Palestine; the science is not settled, it Two stickers on a wide metal lamppost. The one on top reads "the illegal aliens". The one below reads "respect my trans homies or im gonna identify as a fuckin problem" Very strange computer fan mounted to a very strange partially open-faced medical computing kiosk assembly

24.02

T-shaped lamppost at De Vargas Skatepark reminiscient of a cross, with various offerings attached: a skateboard deck, some spent shoes, and a host of skate stickers View across De Vargas Skatepark and the green space adjacent, with the cathedral visible across the street amist the barren trees Calm river behind Upaya Zen Center, completely thawed in mid-February, with barren trees and shrubs surrounding it Two young lovers of juniper trees on a slope, one growing straight up from the bottom of the slope, the other growing sideways from the top, and they meet and intertwine Snow-covered peaks east of Santa Fe against a cloudless blue sky, with the typical evergreen scrubland in the foreground

24.01

A wordless no smoking sign installed upside down on a stucco column Shiny brown frog with a sort of wrinkly-old-man-face sitting atop an artificial stone perch, a spider plant visible creeping into the frame from the left Santa Fe skyline from the north looking southeast at twilight; treeline is in the foreground, the city with its lights in midground, and the background showing brilliant indigo shades of the mountains fading into the low clouds at sunset, with the sky above the mountains and lowest clouds fading from golden into light grey; a smattering of indigo clouds streak across the sky in the upper half of the image Snow-covered path with myriad depressions from footprints which make it look like sand almost, flanked by sagebrush and naked trees on both sides, with a cloudless blue sky opening above Neon cursive lettering of "Pizza etc." on a classic white tile wall, with some framed awards and stuff adorning the wall below it