Memory, dog

“Daisy never left my side. We took long, long walks into the fields surrounding our farm… That is my happy place in my mind, my home, refuge when the shadows catch up and it is time to run again, when, like now, I am homesick for a home that no longer exists, when I have…More

Highway equinox

On September 21, the sun sank right in the dividing line of the intersecting highways that pass through Britton.More

Ben

This handsome fella is Ben. It turns out that Ben is a cousin of Mason, the collie who played Lassie in the 2005 movie.More

Italy: A weekend, a wedding and the Fuji X-E2

Mali & Bram’s Wedding,  Puglia region, Italy. When: Sept 5 -7, 2014 Where: Masseria Montenapoleone Gear used Body: Fuji X-E2 Lenses: 35mm f1.4, 23mm f1.4 At the start of September, I headed to the Puglia region in Italy to shoot Mali and Bram’s wedding. Mali is my niece (although we are the same age; the family tree…More

Movie theatre

Going to the movies in Britton is a weekend-only affair. There’s a tiny, old school cinema on the main drag, called The Strand. It’s open  Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights and shows one movie per weekend. Show titles are changed by hand. Movies are sponsored by local businesses, and new releases are only possibilities (until they’re sponsored, I assume). To someone whose understanding…More

Grain

Britton is a small farming town in South Dakota. If the vast tracts of crop fields leading you into town didn’t already give it away, the grain elevator presiding over its center, just might. Large swathes of the Dakotas and surrounding states in both USA and Canada were settled by Scandinavians during the late 19th century. It is…More

An incidence of green

Cortez is a town in Colorado that is backed by tall mountains in the distance. I never get tired of mountain backdrops, snow capped, baldly jagged, always imposing. They represent to me, a different and wilder kind of life, being the sort of scenes I’d only seen through on a screen or in print, until recently. It is always the small things in these places that get…More

Salida, CO

Light is the life of photography. Words though, are denser for its absence. A freight train tears through the weight of the night, making me think that we cannot go without coming inevitably around. Leaving back again.More

Cheeky bugger

It’s not everyday you get neener-neener-ed by a horse wearing sunnies! Chadron State College Rodeo, Nebraska.More

Mount up!

Competitors warm up during the Chadron State College Rodeo, Nebraska.More

Wild eyed bronc

The rider, his hand caught in the rigging, is dragged halfway around the arena against bronc’s outer flank. Chadron State College Rodeo, Nebraska.More

Tie Siding and personal history

Just outside of Laramie, Wyoming, is a tiny hamlet called Tie Siding. A general store which doubles as a post office with a big shed selling fireworks, is all there is on the side of the road. Miss it in a blink.More

Grand Canyon

One should always stop to stare when coming across something as awe inspiring as the Grand Canyon.More