One of the things I love about Europe, including England and Scotland, is their public transit system. Unlike America, in Europe you can travel to most towns by train or bus or both. Most towns in America have neither train… Read More ›
Street Photography
Trails and Trains Through Portugal and Spain Part 4 (Camino Portuguese, Camino Finesterre-Muxia)
Imagine flying, taking a train or driving your car to an unfamiliar city for a long weekend, then on that last morning after your final bite of toast and sip of coffee you grab your pack, head through the lobby… Read More ›
Trails and Trains Through Portugal and Spain Part 3 (Camino Portuguese, Camino Finesterre-Muxia)
Three days tromping around Lisbon seeing the sights and eating rich Portuguese pastries was the first phase of my Camino training program. It may have been a little late in the process and unorthodox but three days of climbing… Read More ›
Trails and Trains through Portugal and Spain – Part 2 (Camino Portuguese, Camino Finesterre-Muxia)
The train had been stopped too long to just be picking up passengers plus we were not at a station. We were sitting on a sunny stretch of track with a view of nowhere when the diesel engines fell silent… Read More ›
Street Photographer Or Story Collector
Valentine’s Day is a good time to think about love, friends and dreams but this story actually began the day before Valentine’s Day. It was gray, wet and cold but despite that the pursuit of a nineteen year old’s… Read More ›
Christmas Eve In The Coffee Shop
It’s Christmas Eve and I’m looking up at a pine covered hilltop draped in mist, “The Funeral” by Band of Horses is playing overhead and the hiss of milk being steamed bounces off the rustic wood and stone surfaces that surround… Read More ›
Are You Looking At Me?
I noticed a few photographs in my collection that seemed to say, “Are you looking at me?” So I put them together in this post. The first two contain attractive young people who were models in a portrait class I took… Read More ›
Road Trip To Portland Oregon
I was less than an hour into my drive from Portland Oregon back home to Bellingham Washington when I pulled off for gas. I was accelerating up the entrance ramp to rejoin I-5 when I noticed a figure standing… Read More ›
Faces Of Summer
The ten photos you see here are faces I have collected over the past two summers. The toad is a resident of Virginia and the bison lives in Wyoming, but ambles along as if he got his drivers license in England…. Read More ›
The Feel Of Summer
Today I was strolling around historic Fairhaven as the end of the workday approached. Floors were being swept, chairs stacked and young clerks with evening plans stared at wall clocks with pleading eyes. But the position of the minute hand was just… Read More ›
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