Saturday, July 23, 2011

More Travels With IPhone...

Live Through This

Messing with various IPhone apps- "Camera +", "Instagram" and "True HDR" for the most part. When I'm either too lazy or not in the mind of full sensor DSLR (or plain SLR) cameras, these Apps make footnoting the journey pretty fun.

Double click for full size.

Plant, Pot, Stand, Deck, Earth, etc"


Yard Art #1

Ginny's Yellow House


Wall/Flower#1


Wall/Flower#2


Wall/Flower#3

Summer Inside


Makena Lei Turns Away


Abandoned #2


Fence At Darby


Coffee Shop


Thai Restaurant, Idaho


New Paint Job


Wild Irises, Trailer, Shack


True House of Blues and Arrowroot


Heaven#2


Ginny's New Bridge


Huck Catches A Boat Downstream

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Random Travels With IPhone - 6.23.11

An original house of blues. Driggs, ID. 6.22.11


Window Facing West- Driggs, Idaho. 6.22.11


Flowering Bush Meets Storm- Driggs, ID. 6.22.11


Trailer/Storage- Driggs, ID. 6.22.11


Fresh Grass. Driggs, ID 6.22.11


Larkspur. Driggs, ID 6.22.11



Parking Lot and Vintage Sign. Burbank, CA 3.11


Garage Wall. Burbank, CA 4.2011


Wild Iris, blooming bush. Driggs, ID 6.22.11



Alley and storage containers. Burbank, CA. 4.11


Self Portrait. Burbank, CA 2.2011


Alley. Burbank, CA 2.2011


Frozen Sea Foam. St Paul, AK 1.2011


Alley. Burbank, CA. 3.2011


Polar Bear. Anchorage, AK 1.2011


Reticulate Cloud. Unalaska, AK 11.2011


Shack. Unalaska, AK 1.2011


Reticulate Cloud. Unalaska, AK 11.2011


Frozen Sea Foam. St Paul, AK 1.2011


Polar Bear Behind Glass #2 Anchorage, AK 1.2011


Indoor Pool. Quality Inn, Beaver UT. 1.2011


Indoor Pool. Quality Inn, Beaver UT. 1.2011


Dumpster & Hotel Window. Beaver, UT 1.2011


Unalaska Bay, AK. 1.2011

Sunday, February 20, 2011

"SKIP" featured in this month's issue of "LOVE ISSUE MAGAZINE"



I'm very humbled to be one of the featured artists in this months "LOVE ISSUE MAGAZINE", by Constantin Nimigean.

Intimate, powerful work on family by Tierney Gearon, Aline Smithson and others.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Wild Horses of Summer's Bay, Unalaska



Mare's Gone Wild- Summer's Bay, Unalaska


Rule Number One:
While visiting or living in Unalaska, never ask a local to take you to see "the horses". It's code for, "Wanna go on a date?", and makes you immediately suspect. Same goes for the question, "Hey, wanna go for a hike?" In Unalaska, it's all just a badly concealed come-on.

Summer's Bay- 12/2010

So, if you want to see the wild horses of Summer's Bay, you gotta go by yourself. Unless someone really does just want to see the horses and they ask you first. Either way, go. The drive up Summer's Bay road from the city of Unalaska immediately pitches you into the rugged beauty of the island, and austere collision of velvet, mountain tundra and the dynamic coastlines of the Aleutian peninsula, teeming with marine life.

Looking south toward Dutch Harbor from Summer's Bay 11/2010

The lure of the horses may get you in the car, but, as the saying goes, the journey is the destination. Any free time I had while working on Deadliest Catch was spent exploring the fecund coastline or plodding in my Xtra-Tuff boots over the soft tundra moonscape panning out from the road.

Summer's Bay- lava rocks and steady swell. 12/2010

How the "wild" herd got there is a source of constant debate, and since- as I said- talking about them also seems to qualify as trying to hit on someone, you're not likely to get a straight answer from anyone who really knows, since they're too busy running away from you. But they seem to have arrived within the last 20 years, and they aren't really "wild", just feral. Feral, that is, but desperate for Cliff Bars, granola, apples and anything else you have in your pockets. That being said, approach at your own risk. I took my friend (and boss) Bill Pruitt out there a few weeks ago and his friendly approach to one tempermental mare earned him a swift kick and a Charley horse.

Pretty, but packs a punch. 11/2010

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1/2011


1/2011

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12/2010

But in a land where boats set out to fish in frigid, 30 foot seas, remote populations go weeks without oil deliveries and pilots land planes in winds that's whiten even the most weathered welders knuckles, getting kicked by an agitated mare is getting off easy. And, who knows, you might never see them at all, after all, they're wild. Sort of.

1/2011

My last sighting 1/2011
Feb 20, 2011