MartieW

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The light steals in I steal that light

Tents set up for the farmers' market. At right, a single tent glows in the sun.
A panoramic shot of the brick building that houses the Artists' Coop Gallery.
A panoramic scene from Pride Parade. In the middle distance a man bends forward with his camera. Behind him T. Rex is marching with a grin.
A rough textured stump in the woods, with shadow shapes falling on it from the tree branch above. At bottom left, virginia creeper does its eponymous thing.
A vertical view of the clouds forming above a barn-like building with pine trees.
A smiling man drives a front end loader tractor draped in the American flag. The tractor is labeled "Westendorf."
Three men walk abreast wearing posterboard Mt. Rushmore masks.
A child marches down the sidewalk wearing cowboy boots with American Flag designs on them.
A lone milkweed plant leans into the morning sunlight.
A summer walk among the woods. A garden shed and a camper glow in the sunlight.
A birds' eye view of a flowerbed. In bottom center, a stone with the word "PEACE" inscribed.
Twin mullein seedlings side by side in the woods.
Light and shadow define the beauty of a dandelion gone to seed.
Foliage in light and shadow.
People spread out at the fishing dock under an orange saturated sky.
Puffy clouds in a pink sky float above a shelter atop a green hill.
A man and a boy at the river bank with their fishing gear under puffy pink clouds. The sky and sidewalk are pink, the shadows a deep blue.
Two columns, one of them covered in ivy and leaning like the Tower of Pisa.
Three wooden chairs and a table sit in a quiet outdoor space. The colors are shifted due to the film, i.e., the sky is orange, the shadow are purple.
Detail of lushly curved petals of a peony.
A David's head peers out from the dense foliage of a garden.
A panoramic view of the woods. In the foreground a sidewalk curves to the bridge at right.
A stone circle in the center of which three burned branches form an 'H'
Derev Pan film captures the texture of this tree stump, which has a few leaves that refuse to give up.
Foliage at lake's edge shows off this film's range of deep darks and soft lighter values.
A classical stillness aided by the square format. In the foreground a dark band of grasses and a fulsome tree that fills the upper frame. In the background, a fisherman leans from a dock over the quiet lake.
At left, fishermen along the pier. A row of white boulders curves away to the right side of the image, where a lone figure stands in his boat and drops a line.
A panoramic view of a playground. The curves of the landscape mimic the parabola of the swingset.
A truck backs down the dock to pick up a fishing boat from the lake.To the right a man sits at the water's edge and a boy baits his hook.
A panoramic approach through the dark woods to an unknown destination. The clouds gather.
Soviet turret camera with Cyrillic label that says 'horizont' and with a wide angle viewfinder on right side.
A color suffused square image shot at golden hour. In the foreground a statue with bowed head holds a red petaled flower. In back of frame, a small girl with a braid and wearing a blue striped dress walks quietly away.
View from the back of a plump buddha raising his arms to the sunlit flooded window.
Side view of a single bloom of the Fremont Clematis with open petals.
Panoramic view of a lake and its great bowl of a sky.
A small piano and bench sit at the ready on a bungalow's porch.
Two plaster angels flank the walk up to a small frame bungalow. In case that is not enough protection, a plaster lion stands watchfully to the side.
A small frame house with a burgundy door. Beside the door, a Greek column serves as a plant stand for a flower-filled amphora.
A rental scooter with a lime green handle leans against a storefront window which says "BUY SELL TOYS SILVER ANTIQUES GOLD"
The new plants are here! the new plants are here!
Someone has parked a bicycle at the May Day rally with signs on it: "Obama had an Agreement! Closing the Straight (sic) is on TRUMP" and "To sin by SILENCE when they should PROTEST makes COWARDS of men. ABE LINCOLN
From the top of a hilly neighborhood looking down at the houses.
A modest house flaunts a bright pink coat. The curbs flanking its driveway are marked with yellow and red stripes.
A Queen Anne style building (long since converted to apartments) with its mosaic-tiled roof, rounded porch and plentiful variety of corners and angles.
A low brick park building with a moss covered roof.
A shopping cart lies on its side in front of a white truck.
Rusting white pickup truck parked on the grass in an alley.
An aged, balding sycamore leans tall above a young tree in its spring garb.
A clay colored bungalow in an old neighborhood. The low block wall in front of it is lined with yellow square pots. It is too early to tell what is growing in them.
A wire garden fence with a sun-in-wheel motif. The sun on the right is shining in the daylight, while the other sun remains in shadow.
A tree continues to reach for the sky after having survived what looks like a hatchet attack.
A shadowed grove made of piled boulders.
A curvaceous tree spreading its limbs. Behind it, the geometric forms of an electric substation.
A vining plant climbs both sides of a gate in a lattice fence.
A grand old tree that has lost one of its main limbs. The bark is very textured and swirls around the contours of the tree.
A mini hockey stick on the sidewalk in the shadow of a park bench.
A concrete bear cub leans toward the camera in a local park playground.
A rack of electric bikes. In the near background is a sign that reads "Bike with Mike / to Support Mental Health"
A small building with a pointed roof sits at the top of a hill. In the foreground a deep ravine filled with rocks is crisscrossed by tree shadows.