The distant figure of a man walking along a paved bicycle trail, lined by winter trees.

Guy walking on the Gay Lee Wilson bicycle trail on a cold day.

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A photograph of a long-haired white guy with a small camera taking a selfie in a window. A sign in the window reads "Stand Clear."

"Where were you 10 year ago?"

I was apparently doing the same thing I do now; noodling around, looking at stuff, shooting photos.

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A foggy winter morning in a local park. A pair of children's rocking horses (one of which is in the form of a seahorse) and a bench for watchful parents.

Morning fog was pretty common during the recent unseasonably warm weather. I much prefer it over the current seasonably bitter cold. But it was nice to take the 14-year-old #FujifilmX10 off the shelf.

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A blue leatherette love seat on a loading dock in an alleyway during the early part of a snow storm.

There's no snow today; it's 43F and raining. This is from a decade ago, when I did a lot more #LarkingAboutInAlleys.

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A light covering of snow on empty fields. A line of trees are in the distance.

I live in Iowa now. A friend asked, "Where do the corn gods go after the corn is harvested?" It's like asking where your fist goes when you open your hand. The corn gods are there & they're exacting. Follow their rules or stay out of the field.
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A loading dock in an alleyway. A yellow metal plate has been attached to the concrete dock, and an odd yellow bollard thing guards the corner of the dock. On the brick wall above the dock is a sign, which reads, "Entrance only; do not double park." There is also a grated drain with leaves stuck between the grates.

Entrance only. Do not double park.

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A field that's been harvested, with a treeline in the background, illuminated by winter light, with clouds being dramatic AF.

I still get a wee bit creeped out by the large open spaces of the Midwest, but lawdy, when the light is right...

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A cold, damp, empty basketball court in a neighborhood park. I believe the backboard is set lower than usual for younger players (who have the good sense to say inside where it's warm and dry).

Ain't nobody shooting hoops today.

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Splashes of paint on some large bricks beneath a tunnel on a bike path.

Bricks

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A black-and-white photograph of a wet city street, down which a man--just a blurry image--walks. A neon sign is reflected in a puddle.

Because it's #Noirvember. As the poet Chandler said, "It is not a fragrant world, but it is the world you live in."

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A grey door with a pink frame in a green building next to a brown building.

A valiant attempt to spruce up a grey door.

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A man in a grey jacket, seen from a shaded vantage point. On the right side of the frame is a reflection of the street.

The #WeeFuji can still do the work.

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A black-and-white image of a construction worker taking a break, leaning against a wall, watching the white collar world wander by.

Took the 13-year-old #WeeFuji out for a spin. It's so much slower than my Ricoh. I missed a shot of this guy, leaning against the wall, watching a couple of businessmen in suits walking by.

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A pair of Adirondack chairs--one yellow, one blue--in an overgrown, fenced-in lot. In the background is some sort of bizarre agricultural whatsit.

My ongoing infatuation with Adirondack chairs...

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A black-and-white photograph of an angel in a cemetery.

Your first thought. Is it "Into every generation a Slayer is born."

Or "Don't blink."

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An unfinished cement structure. A shadow slants across the far wall. The blue sky above is dotted w with white clouds.

Three walls, a shadow, some clouds.

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A photograph of a young woman who bears a resemblance to a portrait of Giulia de' Medici.

I took her photo last year.

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A dinosaur (perhaps an immature T-Rex?) in a suburban yard.

Yeah, I dunno, you go places, you see things, don't even try to figure it out.

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Okay, #photography in or of coffee shops. Coffee and cameras just go together.

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Canada geese in the marsh on a grey, foggy morning.

For the #BlueSkyArtShow theme of 'Peaceful.'

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An abandoned industrial site on the outskirts of a small town. There are two heavy metal sliding doors that rely on old railroad tracks.

Abandoned industrial site.

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A slightly blurry black-and-white photograph of a man walking down the sidewalk on a cold, wet, foggy morning. The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once said, "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."

Gonna go with HCB here. Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.

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The deconstruction of an older building in order to replace it with a new building.

Deconstruction zone.

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The counterbalanced stairs at the end of a fire escape located in an alleyway. A mural is painted on the wall behind the stairs. Ivy covers part of the wall.

Way too much is happening in this alleyway.

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A patient dog, accompanied by a bearded man in a blue coat, waits at a crosswalk on a cold, wet morning.

Buddies, out for a walk.

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An old school bus near a storm shelter (the entrance is visible on the right side of the frame). These were located behind a dilapidated, abandoned farmhouse.

A bus and a storm shelter in an abandoned farmstead.

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A black-and-white photograph of a wet city sidewalk and the blurry figure of a pedestrian.

Guy inna hurry.

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A high contrast black-and-white photograph of the shadow of a traffic light on a crosswalk.

High contrast traffic light

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A photograph of a folding chair and a cinderblock in a sub-level walkway. The bottom of a black door is in the middle of the frame.

Chair and cinderblock.

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The reflection of a winter denuded tree on the wet pavement of an urban plaza. The tree is enclosed by four black metal benches. A line of red tiles runs diagonally across the frame. There's a scattering of dead leaves in the foreground.

Wet bench

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