sbphoto

@sbiessel.com

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Photographer, wanderer, and house cat manager in Omaha, NE, USA. I'm interested in documenting human-altered landscapes, land use, urban sprawl, or whatever I find on walks. No AI. he/his Works at https://sbiessel.com/

Two women in bright rainbow-colored clothing kiss in a beam of light under an underpass.
The silhouette of a dog running on a lake. The sun blares toward the camera in the center of the image, reflecting on the lake ice in the same path the dog is running.
A smiling white woman's face repeated in lines on a triangular shaped piece of paper. The paper is heavily weathered and laying on asphalt. The shape of the paper and string suggests it could be a birthday hat.
View down a sidewalk. Figures and objects cast long shadows in the late afternoon sun. A purple shopping cart sits in the foreground. Two women walk away in the distance.
The words "The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those crushed in spirit, pslams 34:18" written on a cracked stucco wall at left. A city street stretches into the distance at right under a partly sunny sky. A power pole sits at the far right; its lines roughly mirror the cracks in the wall near the writing.
A cement block sits in the middle of a grassy area at dusk. Homes and power lines lie in the distance. Spray painted green words on the block read "if u close ur eyes..."
Outside patio of a business that appears to be under construction or destruction. There is a mural of a tropical scene featuring a boat, beach, and palms on a wall in the center of the image. Several large letters lie against the wall and below it. A tall fence made of wood with rock interludes extends to the left. A partly cloudy blue sky lies above the fence.
View across the top of a parking garage toward a skyline filled with tall medical buildings. The photographer's shadow lies in the foreground at left. A bright red fire extinguisher is on a concrete post in the foreground at right. A purple entrance to the garage elevator lies on the opposite side of the garage at left. It has a large white "6" painted on its side.
Side view of a blue sedan with dark blue rims sits alone in an empty parking lot. A block sits under the back wheel. Power lines and a building with blue and yellow trim lie behind the car. White paint on the front passenger window reads, "Open"
An old red and white sedan with a red and white sign on its dash that reads "Forgive that person today, Mark 11:25-26"
A blanket covered in red and orange flowers lies draped over a small sign that sits among yellow flowers and grasses. A fence covered in barbed wire runs across the image behind the sign.
A blanket covered in red and orange flowers lies draped over a small sign that sits among yellow flowers and grasses. A fence covered in barbed wire runs across the image behind the sign.
A pink balloon sits on pavement near an old brick building. The balloon sits in the right of the image. On the left, there's a ramp to a basement garage level. Concrete and fencing from the ramp creates a leading line to the balloon.
A group of officers give a salute behind and to the right of a large illuminated chained down statue of the back of a cow.
Gray skies over a large empty parking lot dotted with islands of planted trees.
Two small light brown shopping carts sit together on a curb in the foreground. A parking lot and light poles lie behind. A farm field is visible in the distance. The silhouette of a person is walks along a road bordering the field.
View of the Omaha downtown skyline with yellow flowers in the foreground illuminated by the evening sun. An empty lot sits between the flowers and skyline.
The words, "Find something you love and let it kill you...die happy" spray painted onto the side of an old brick building painted brown. The Gateway Arch is visible in the distance to the left of the building.
A Ferris wheel and multiple billboards are visible through a fence. The spray-painted ruins of an old fountain sits in the foreground.
Sunlight reflecting from a mirror on the ground illuminates the word shit on the side of a building. A red frame sits next to the frame.
The store associated with a gas station, painted in criss-crossing black and white lines. The photographer's shadow is visible in a blue painted circle at bottom right. The steeple of a church pokes above the station at top left.
Drive-thru stalls of a bank. A break in the pavement in the foreground mirrors the shapes of the clouds above the bank.
A closeup view of the drivers side of a 60s or 70s era Chevy pickup truck. The truck is yellow with a stripe below the window featuring alternating pastels of purple, green, red, and blue. Blotches of rust appear near the wheel well and below the door. The top of the front tire is visible. A pastel red building and blue sky rises above the truck.
View of a large cantilever truss bridge through the concrete supports of the base of another bridge.
A grey backpack with black straps lies on the double yellow lines of a city street. A white string of caulk lies on the street behind it.
A man wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses and sporting a handlebar mustache sits on a scooter on a city street and looks at the camera with a straight face. Rear view mirrors attached to the scooter extend to the left and right of the man. The man is wearing a t-shirt with a printed on vest and tie.
Two horses with yellow tassels stand beside two men on the opposite side of the street in a neighborhood. One of the men is wearing red ceremonial clothing. In the foreground stands an old Huffy bike and the rear of a vintage yellow sports car.
A discarded dark gray couch sits beside a single-story building made of cinder blocks painted in an off-white color. A city street lies in front of the building at left. A black sign on the top of the building reads, "JD Casey Co, Casey has it."
A row of golf carts sit on a concrete landing. The Kansas City skyline is visible behind them.
"And One day too, this shall pass or, it won't" is written on a spray painted concrete barrier on a vacant lot. A spray painted wall lies behind. A pillow with pink flowers lies in the foreground.
A person sitting in a chair holds a sign that reads "Guardians of Pedophiles." The sign fully obscures their body. Circular blue and green shapes lie to their left on a playground.
A storage business with the sign "Broadway Storage" sits in the foreground at left. Large blue and green cylindrical liquid storage containers loom behind the building at right. An orange porta-potty sits at far right in front of the containers.
A torched car covered in graffiti lies next to a river. A railroad bridge is visible in the distance.
The text "Why?!" painted in brown paint on the white exterior of a building. Paint from the words drips down the wall. Black paint from graffiti above the word also drips down the wall.
A blue and yellow train car sit on tracks beside a road. The Gateway Arch rises behind them in the distance. Two guide wires in yellow sheaths from a telephone pole cut through the image in the foreground.
At left, a woman in a red winter hat pulls a hand truck toward a crosswalk on a street corner illuminated by the late afternoon sun. Three blue planters lie behind her. At right sits a boarded up storefront with a red awning. The shadow of the sun on the storefront matches the shape of the woman.
A boarded up food mart convenience store with heavily weathered siding. Black spray paint across the store reads, "Love is the flower you've got to let grow..."
View into a pickup truck from the front. A woman and man sit in the cab. A rock guard on hood reads, "Skull fucker."
Black spray painting on a red brick wall that reads, "Gots to see it through my boy."
A weathered sign with handwritten text reads, "All I Want is for Morals, Honer [misspelled], and Love For God and Country to be Real Again!"
Sign on the edge of a sinkhole downtown that reads, "Dear 67th St. sinkhole: you think you're cute getting all the attention huh?? Well, you're nothing but a sidepiece sinkhole!
Illustration of a bare-chested man flexing his bicep while six men in different hair styles watch. Overlaid text reads “Operation Epic Fury.”
Planters with flowers of different colors stand on pavement in front of a train station featuring Beaux-Arts architectural style. A banner featuring the Titanic hangs on the side of the building. A man in a yellow vest sits on a bench near the building on the left side of the frame.
A snowy walkway leads to a mural on the side of a wall depicting a summer garden with Greek columns and statues.
A single-story building with weathered pastel-pink siding sits on the right in the foreground. A factory and yellow truck lie in the distance a few blocks away on the left. A sign on the building reads, "Peregoy custom cabinets."
Two men on a street corner face each other in conversation. The doors to a car and sight-seeing bus lie in a line behind their faces.
Three short trees cast in shadow stand in front of an old brick power plant bathed in the orange light of the setting sun.
The side of an abandoned home that is falling apart reads, "I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up and all that. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My Sister was only a very tiny child then, and She was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean."
A view across a street in a downtown shows the side of two buildings. On the left, there is a blank cement wall. At right, there's a large mural of people on a wagon train.
Green text spray painted on a highway bridge concrete guard rail reads, "Flirt. Gather hats. Have fun!" A forest-lined river, railroad bridge, and city buildings lie in the distance beyond the text.
Ripped fragments of yellowed pages from a book lay in the snow.
A man in a suit walks out of a store carrying a plastic bag. He's in shadow except for a splash of light that illuminates his face, white undershirt, and red tie. He is wearing glasses and is looking down toward the street.
A concrete support of a highway overpass meets the ground in the center of the image. The concrete support is partially bathed in light. Red grafitti on the concrete support reads, "We let in a felon before a woman. Fuck Trump." Smaller black writing around the grafitti reads, "Your body my choice," "Faggot," and Cope +Seethe." Two trees are visible in sunlight on the right. A shadowy figure partially bathed in light walks beneath the overpass on the left.
The rear end of a trailer is parked on a large lot that's under construction. Buildings in downtown Omaha rise to the left and behind. The side of the trailer contains a rendering of shiny new buildings and parking.
A bright yellow taco truck sits on the side of the road, bathed in light the setting sun. A red restaurant sign stands above it. To the left of the truck, shadows of the photographer and power lines stretch toward the top left of the image and a building with red trim.
A white religious cross with plastic flowers at its base sits below concrete "T"s of a highway overpass. A small tree grows under the overpass on the right.
A crumpled shirt showing part of a woman's smiling face lies on pavement.
A discarded old brown easy chair sits in some shrubs and small trees along a road. The edge of an apartment building rises above the trees in the right side of the image.
Train cars sit idle on tracks behind a row of leafless trees. Part of a road is visible in the foreground in front of the trees. An arrow on the road mirrors the bent trunk of a tree behind.
A billboard sign facing the camera towers over a raised highway onramp and city streets. Only the legs of the billboard are visible, the top is cut off by the top of the image frame.