Images from a brief visit to Los Angeles in December, 2025
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El Cerrito Walk
When I lived in Minneapolis, I regularly went on photo walks. For a brief period while living in Berkeley California, I went for walks during my lunch break from my job and frequently took pictures. I have driven past these locations in El Cerrito and Richmond, California hundreds of times in the last decade, but seeing them while walking is a completely novel experience.
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Single Blade
Sunset or sunrise photography always produces a rush of emotion because I can see, feel, hear and even smell the passage of time. In the later months of summer, this rush is further emphasized by the warm tan of drying grasses that blanket the ground.
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Alone at Sunset
In moments of solitude, I spend a lot of time thinking about other people and my relationships with them. Unlike dreams, there is no symbolism only a relay of facts, fears, fondness and unseen facial expressions.
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Scrapes & Scratches
When the ball gets trapped between the branches of a dried bush, the game doesn’t end. There is preemptive anxiety, then pain as I reach my arm through the branches and grasp the ball. There is pain as I pull my arm out and stinging as I brush the scratched areas before throwing the ball to continue the game. Astride the pain is the unceasing joy of playing the game. Joy is the anesthesia of non-traumatic pain.
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Cloud Blanket
Falling asleep with my head under my blanket is comforting. This blanket of clouds, seemingly pulled up over the bay at sunset, feels comforting. The gradient of light from bright to dark definitely contributes to that feeling. It is as if I’m being eased into night instead of the world suddenly going dark.
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Leaf Heart
The bright disc of the setting sun sits behind a heart-shaped leaf at the end of a dry branch. Other dry branches are above it, some sharp and some hocus.
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Precarious
Compared to the size of the universe, we are smaller than the atoms that make up our bodies. We live precariously on the outside of a sphere rotating at almost 1,000 miles an hour, flying through space at 67,000 mph. The energy for our daily lives originates within a giant spinning nuclear reactor located 93 million miles away.
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Seagull Sunset
At the edges of the world it is always twilight; perpetual, set up and sundown. There are no edges at the end of the world. There is nothing to fall off of and nothing to fall into. The end of every day here is the beginning of every day there. We are insects on the outside of a giant spinning ball with a heat lamp on one side.
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Transitions
I like the contrast of the sharp blades of grass in the foreground against the soft silhouettes in the background. The angular repetition of lines, the blurred archway around the sun and the transition from dark to light, are all very pleasing.
