Photo Blog – Page 4 – Samuel Snoek-Brown

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This is a true story about two dates, February 1, 1997, and February 1, 2012: This is on the campus of Schreiner University, in Kerrville, TX. Fifteen years ago, that tree wasn’t there, and the room behind it was a small rec room. Fifteen years ago, I was on my way to that rec room toContinue reading “Photo blog 75”

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I got caught taking this picture. My father was amused, and since I had the camera ready, I took that picture, too. I actually like it better:

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“The lustre of mid-day to objects below. . .” ZooLights holiday displays, Oregon Zoo, Portland, OR, 4 December 2011.

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This is one more photo for the NaNoWriMo project. It’s not particularly “apocalyptic,” but one of the stories involves the elephants at the Oregon Zoo, so I figured I’d share this particular pachyderm.

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So, more doctored, fake-apocalyptic photos of Oregon, this time of “blood-red” sunsets along the Oregon coast, after William Ashcroft‘s famous oil pastels depicting the eerie sunsets following the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.

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As I did last year, I’m using November’s photo blog posts to record some mood-setting pictures for my NaNoWriMo project. This year: the apocalypse, which involves a lot of ash. Hence these doctored, ashed-up photos of fog in Portland. (Today was eerily — and almost undrivably — foggy as well, so it felt like good timingContinue reading “Photo blog 69”

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Remember the photo blog? Yeah, me too. It’s back, by popular demand (of my wife.)

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“Bailarina.” Mariachi band and young girl dancing, Art in the Pearl, Portland, OR, 5 September 2011.

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I’ve officially decided to start a series on abandoned dolls. I just can’t describe the emotion I feel when I find these things — nostalgia? sorrow? grief? curiosity? — but the emotions, like the dolls, fascinate me. I didn’t realize until I got home and uploaded these to the computer that this roof actually held two dollsContinue reading “Photo blog 66”