flak photo

November 30, 2004

Shorty's is a tiny bar in downtown Seattle where you can satisfy your need for both messy veggie coney dogs and pinball. All the booths are built around old pinball machines lit up for your dining pleasure, and the back room is a wall to wall pinball wizard wonderland.

Seattle, WA
March 21, 2003

November, 29 2004

Hibiscus Tree in front of martial arts studio.

Taken with an Audiovox CMD8900 cameraphone.

91st street between 3rd and Lexington
Manhattan
September 2004

November 26, 2004

Japanese teenagers dancing in front of a hair salon in Osaka.

Osaka, Japan
July 2004

November 25, 2004

Doubletree Hotel.

Taken with an Audiovox cameraphone.

Chicago
November 2004

November 24, 2004

Brits of the 21st Century
London, England
June 2000

November 23, 2004

Business men sit with yakuza and homeless residents of Nishi Ikebukuro
Park to play Go.

Nishi Ikebukuro Park
Tokyo
July 2004

November 22, 2004

Maine mudflats at low tide.

Taken with a Holga camera fitted with a Polaroid back.

July
2004 

November 19, 2004

Japanese woman picking azuki beans out of their pods.

Numata, Gunma, Japan
November 5, 2004

November 18, 2004

Blowfish.

Brooklyn, New York
June 2003

November 17, 2004

Archie Bunker
DUMBO, Brooklyn
July 2004
 

November 16, 2004

Street Grate.

Cambridge, MA
November, 2001

November 15, 2004

Growing up in Vermont I was surrounded by trees.  In NYC, I have to make do with a more hurried canopy of green.

91st and 3rd
September 10th, 2004

Taken with an Audiovox CMD8900 cameraphone.

November 12, 2004

An entire store dedicated to lingerie, uniforms, and other
toys. (All purchases done by a simple machine.)

Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
October 2004

November 11, 2004

I've lived in New York City for two years now. It took that long for my parents to finally come and visit, and for me to track down (with their assistance) relatives spread out all over New York who I didn't even know existed.

Over the course of three days, I met at least fifteen aunts, uncles and cousins, and ate more meals than I typically eat in an entire week. This is Alexander, a member of what turns out to be my very large extended family in NYC.

Queens, New York
October 24, 2004

November 10, 2004

Sol y Sombra en Salamanca
(Sun and Shadow in Salamanca)
Salamanca, Spain
May 2000

November 9, 2004

Blue crabs

Somerville, MA
February 2003

November 8, 2004

Stop Along Route 1, California
May 15, 2003

Abbey Nova

November 5, 2004

A lantern at a summer festival held in the small town of Niiharu.

Niiharu, Gunma, Japan
August 2004

November 4, 2004

A horse is a horse... except if it's Icelandic.

Icelandic horses are more like ponies — small and densely furry. I rode this one, a grass-loving trotter named Lisa, around lava fields in a town about 30 minutes south of of Reykjavík, Iceland, for about two hours in weather conditions that can, at best, be described as torrentially misty.

When riding horses, you are never supposed to hold the reins with fewer than two hands. This photo is obvious proof of my disregard for that rule.

Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
September 8, 2004

November 3, 2004

"Death Valley" is the wrong name for this vast yet curiously intimate landscape. "Awesome Valley" would be more like it. Or "Rock Valley"—the place is a geologist's dream. By any name, you can get some good thinking done here, or think about nothing at all.

Texas Springs
Death Valley, California
November 1999

November 2, 2004

Bottom of the Barrel

Madison, WI
June 2004

November 1, 2004

The Koi pond outside the Solaire, an environmentally sustainable residential high-rise building in Manhattan. According to its developers, the Solaire consumes 35 percent less energy and conserves 50 percent more water than traditional residential buildings.

Battery Park City
September 2004

Taken with an Audiovox CMD8900 cameraphone.