Years of Indiscretion

In Progress ~ Some Walks I've Made

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Barrington RI ~ Groton MA ~ Seattle WA ~ Providence RI

The same place ~ every time ~ almost...

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Along Shirley Road ~ Groton MA ~ 2007 - ongoing

Even X ~

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M.I.T. ~ Cambridge MA~ Building 4 ~ 12 November MMXI

The Off Hours Reading Series ~ Seattle

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Wellfleet ~ MA

recently used by a friend for this:

A walk ~ a drive ~ a walk

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Barrington RI ~ West of Seattle WA ~ Groton MA

Some Trees by John Ashbery (Adorned)

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pages 8-9

pages 30-31

pages 38-39

pages 64-65

pages 70-71

"Earth Near, Insect Simple"

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Simsbury CT ~ Groton MA ~ Providence RI ~ Seattle WA ~ Warwick RI ~ Washington DC ~ Barrington RI ~ Philadelphia PA ~ New York NY~Ashburnham MA ~ Newport RI ~ South of Trenton NJ ~ Above Chicago IL

Newport Folk Festival ~ 2011

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for Relix / Jambands

Washington Monument ~ Lincoln Memorial

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Washington D.C. ~ June MMXI

Lincoln Memorial

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Washington D.C. ~ 19 June MMXI

The first day of June.

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Groton ~ MA ~ 01 June MMXI

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Anderbo just published a sequence of recent photographs

taken at Gasworks Park in Seattle.

I am very grateful they will find a larger audience.

http://www.anderbo.com/

Providence Art Windows Installation

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Fulton St. ~ Providence RI ~ Near City Hall

The Sky Above ~ 925 Polaroids ~ 9 by 11 feet

November 2010 - July 2011

Gasworks Park ~ Seattle ~ August's End

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August 24 ~ 31 : Seattle, WA

Newport Folk Festival ~ 2010

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Andrew Bird

and what happens when he whistles:

Sharon Jones

Richie Havens

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

O' Death

Tao Seeger

Brandi Carlisle

The Low Anthem

John Prine

The Felice Brothers

Doc Watson

Steig Larrson fan

The Avett Brothers

Ben Sollee (with Jim James of MMJ)

Yim Yames

Levon Helm

For Relix and Jambands.com

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These are 16 of the 28 photographs in a book I will be publishing using Blurb:

Tuesday; An Art Project

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Some of my work

appears in the current issue of Tuesday.

Each copy has one or two fiber-based silver gelatin prints, chosen from six.

http://www.tuesdayjournal.org/index.htm

It is a beautiful publication. I feel fortunate to be included...

that more people will see some of my photographs.

Work in Progress - III

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Acadia National Park, ME ~ Groton, MA ~ Seattle, WA ~ Wellfleet, MA ~ Niagra Falls, NY

~ Thank you for the flowers ~

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Groton, MA ~ Barrington, RI ~ Ashburnham, MA ~ Seattle WA

~ Sun soaked, some of today ~

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So...

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much water.

Something I've been working on...

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Little pieces of the big sky.

Soon it will be warm enough...

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to be outside more and more and more...

Salt and...

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snow...

and Chester is looking forward
to spring.

Every Book My Granma Owns.

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Tulips, two weeks old. Today, new snow.

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Work in Progress II

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Haiti ~ March 2008

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~ Words by Piers MacNaughton ~

~ March 30th, 2008 ~

I clamber into the bed of the pickup truck and stare into the crowd of kids gathering around us. These same kids had shown up at our room at 5:30 this morning, saying our names over and over vying for our limited time left with them. Fransly, Eva, I can hardly understand their broken French, but over the course of a week they seemed to have become my friends. Now the beat up truck starts to pull away, and we wave with plastered smiles and yell au revoir over the noise of the engine. Not a single child moved, no waves, no last second requests. I watched their eyes become like the dust the tires kicked up around them, dull yet unsettled. It was as if we had promised them something on the first day, and just now did the Haitian children realize we were lying all along. I had seen this face a lot, on the motionless pedestrians lined along the road, on those in their Sunday best once the optimism of the service faded, and in the eyes of livestock held on a tether.

We pass out of the village and the plight of the land unfolds before us. These are the lagoons no longer connected to the sea, waiting to evaporate into the air, these are the dried terraced fields reaching tentatively to the dewy clouds, these are the rusty machetes that are held by many a Haitian man but rarely used, and these are lambs that know the fear of death. Those of you at Groton whose vociferous prayers are heard and who honestly believe that God is omnipresent, that the wind which blows persistently off the ocean into the village is God’s soothing breath, pray for these things. Suddenly the pick up gains speed on an unusually smooth stretch of road, and the wind beats my face. A tear forms in the corner of my eye, and with a blink it jumps briefly into the open air before landing on Hannah’s shirt. I stare at the splotch grow and fade until she notices my transfixion. I snap my teary eyes away and take out my sunglasses for the first time since I got to Haiti. They soften the barrage of the wind and the sodden gaze of the bystanders.

Seeing this stranded landscape I begin to despair, but a recollection from a week ago surfaces in my mind. I think of the community gathered in the cinderblock church for Easter. Instantly upon entering I was convinced of one thing: that people can create faith out of nothing but each other. I can’t understand Creole and the Baptist ideology is foreign to me, but even I recognized in the most forsaken the language of religion, of hope and charity. They had a confidence here, such that Amen came easy to their lips and they would clap or wave their hands at the whim of inspiration. At the end of the service we shook hands in peace like in some of the Eucharistic services at Groton, and the congregation funneled out of the church full of pomp. This was on my first day here, and it revitalized me too after the culture shock of arriving in Haiti.

Since then I have watched as their vitality has disappeared. I will never know what was said during that two hour service, what sank them to their knees to pray or brought them to their feet to sing, but I have seen in the past week the futility of it all. A Haitian man told me of a human eating, horned beast he had seen on one of the near by islands. He had seen a moose. With the same rationale he contemplates everything he can’t explain and calls it God. He goes to church every Sunday praying to this figment of his imagination for help, and it is brutally apparent in the past week that God has changed nothing. So now they all have become like the gullible children watching us depart only a half hour ago. What had God promised these people before he turned his back on their prayers and their blind faith? “The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind; the answer is blowing in the wind."

Two months ago at the Easter service in Haiti they spent a lot of time asking God for help, and in the week that ensued they received little for it. But they also welcomed us to the village, gave alms to the church, and shook hands in peace. In return we helped them as much as we could in our time there, building a wall around the schoolyard and socializing with the children. At the same time they supported each other, drawing upon the Christian ideals they had committed to memory. This is how God approaches tangibility, from people and through people, pouring out of their mouths and gestures, until that torrent sweeps us onward.

Various Photographs Catalog

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This photograph....

now lives in this book:

You can 'flip' through it here...

http://tvbookshop.com/Various_Photographs_TV_Books.html

Work in Progress (1 -35)

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Burtonsville MD ~ Somewhere in CT ~ NYC ~ Istanbul, Turkey ~ Providence RI
Trenton NJ ~ Front Royal VA ~ Anaheim CA ~ Riverside RI ~ Hale County AL
Eugene OR ~ Mt. St. Helens WA ~Washington DC ~ Atlantic City NJ ~ Las Vegas NV
Acadia National Park Me ~ Seattle WA
New Orleans LA ~ Garden Grove CA ~ Boston MA ~ Kingston NY
Atlantic City NJ ~ Ashburnham MA ~ Tupelo MS ~ Seattle WA

Recent Polaroids ~ Part II

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Times Square NYC ~ Boston MA ~ Groton MA ~ Wells ME

Somewhere in Georgia ~ Providence RI ~ Barrington RI ~ Clarendon Springs VT

Click to Enlarge

Recent Polaroids ~ Part I

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Providence RI ~ Groton MA ~ NYC ~ Boston MA

Click to Enlarge

Holga Triptych #1

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Bod Mer Limbe ~ Istanbul ~ N.Y.C.

2008

~ I spent the past week in Haiti ~

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~ Words to follow soon ~

Just back from Istanbul....

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on my way to Haiti.

The First Day of March ~ 2008

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Amaryllis ~ Stem ~ Snow ~ Tulip

Photographs of the Day ~ October 1st - 5th

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Seattle,WA ~ Groton, MA ~ NYC, NY ~ Clarendon Springs, VT ~ Athens, Greece

Photographs of the Day ~ September 24th - 28th

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East on Rt. 40, Texas ~ Annandale-on-Hudson, NY ~ Ashburnham, MA ~ Clarendon Springs, VT ~ In transit from Seattle to Boston

Photographs of the Day ~ September 17th-21st

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Groton, MA ~ Barrington, RI ~ Providence, RI ~ Seattle, WA ~ Worcester, MA

Some Shiny Quarters Well Spent ~ $19.25

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Boo, Forever

Spinning like a ghost

on the bottom of a

top,

I'm haunted by all

the space that I

will live without

you.

Richard Brautigan

Photographs of the Day ~ September 10th-14th

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NYC, NY ~ Tisbury, MA ~ Niagra Falls, NY ~ Barrington, RI ~ Portland, OR

Photographs of the Day ~ September 3rd-7th

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Groton, MA ~ Seattle, WA ~ Ashby, MA ~ NYC, NY ~ Boston, MA

From the backseat....

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of Stephen's car, heading down Route 95 South, passing through Cranston, RI.

The oldest photograph I have that I am certain I took.

~ Summer 1984 ~

Photographs of the Day ~ August 27th-31st

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Clarendon Springs, VT ~ NYC, NY ~ Wilbraham, MA ~ Groton, MA ~ Roswell, NM

Photographs of the Day ~ August 20th-24th

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Manchester, TN ~ Aiken, SC ~ Groton, MA ~ Wibraham, MA ~ Groton, MA

Photographs of the Day ~ August 13th-17th

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Barrington, RI ~ Sequim, WA ~ Rutland, VT ~ Aiken, SC ~ Groton, MA

Photographs of the Day ~ August 6th-10th

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Lexington Avenue, NYC ~ Wilbraham, MA ~ Seattle, Wa ~ Ashburnham, Ma ~ Groton, MA

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The Corner of Boylston and Tremont streets.

Boston, MA ~ 23 October 2006

Recently used by a friend for this:

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...at first they were just clouds...

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Another New Year

01 January 1995 - Tupelo, Mississippi

01 January 1996 - Pottstown, Pennsylvania

01 January 1997 - San Francisco, California

01 January 1998 - Anaheim, California

01 January 1999 - Garden Grove, California

01 January 2000 - New York, New York

01 January 2001 - Lexington, North Carolina

01 January 2002 - Las Vegas, Nevada

01 January 2003 - Providence, RI

01 January 2004 - Birmingham, Alabama

01 January 2005 - Hale County, Alabama

01 January 2006 - Aiken, South Carolina