a block.
a moment
two colors
and eyes.

I'm concerned with the deluge of photos being posted on photographica. It seems people put every picture they take every time they go out of their house.

I recognize that there are wonderful stories to be shared and images to impart with the world, but after 6 clicks on photographs that really don't follow an idea or a theme, and just feel like following someone aroudn with their camera, i get disheartened. The desire to continue clicking on the other 5 or 6 photoswithin the post wanes, and I move on to someone else's.

It's impossible to impose a limit, and i realize that it would be silly to attempt to do so.

So that poses the question? How do you impart to your fellow photographers that they need to share less quantatiy and more quality?

How do you encourage someone to edit their photo selections?

don't let them say
it's not you
you are still the same
alien
self-portrait.

a switch.
a twist.
an empty stage.
it all unfolds, again.

why?
 i've just gotta dance.

possibilities
that life isn't all we see
when we're at home

outside Cuzco, Peru

I make my home where I roam.
I roam where I please
and these days have brought
us to Pasadena, California.

Pasadena, home to the rose parade,
rose bowl, the gold line, high property taxes,
and ticketing police officers.

And the Pasadena I see today:
Homeless artisans trusting their posessions to the streets.
Land of Lost and Alone but waiting for a reason.
Mazes of sensors missing the pulse of the city
 And the way out blocked by glass, and the reflection of the home that exists, where I roam.

My friend Nick,
whom we lovingly call
The Vermiscious Knid

built by the catholic missionaries during the colonization of latin america, the spaniards built their city over the ancient city of cosqo (Cuzco, Peru) and used incan temples as foundations.

cuzco's flag is a rainbow, and the light that afternoon was great.

Courtyard of Cuzco Cathedral

The Battle of Ayacucho (Dec. 9, 1824) was a Latin-American war of independence, and a revolutionary victory over royalists on the high plateau near Ayacucho, Peru. It freed Peru and ensured the independence of the nascent South American republics from Spain.

The names of more than 7 countries from south america who fought against Spain for independence are around the base of the monument.

Now, in the 21st century, Ayacucho is home to a suffering tourism industry. Due to violent communist uprisings between the late 80s until the mid 90s when they were obliterated by the peruvian government, the people of Ayacucho have suffered much. The city sufferes from incredible rates of unemployment and the lack of education far inland from the centers of wealth in Peru.

At tourist attractions such as the monument of the Battle of Ayacucho, children dress in traditional Ayacuchano attire and sing songs in the indigenous tongue of Quechua, in an effort to get money from the tourists.

None of them are related

i'm really really tired of airports
but i still enjoy LAX... sometimes

Flash at the beach
they didn't realize i was taking long exposure photos.
their digital camera flash had a great effect.

i'm off to peru for three week as part of a medical mission through the peruvian american medical society. stories and pictures when i return.

reflections
i keep glancing,
hoping a face will emerge
my hope; is the hope
that such a face will be yours.

reflections
"you were; the only answer
my plans; spun all around you
five years in the wrong, i am assured
my name to you is just another word"
- Mike Doughty

the warmth has brought the flowers
out with some great colors.
and i'm not one to share flower pictures.