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Worked as a photographer, guitarist, parent. Love the obscure and absurd. Deeds not words.
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#NoKings #Rally #Protest #October #Flagstaff #Arizona

#BlackAndWhite #Photography #EastCoastKin

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At the No Kings rally in Flagstaff, Arizona, A man in a cowboy hat holds up a sign with a crown and a large “X” overlaying the crown. October 18, 2025. A group of people sit on the opposite bank of a dry creek bed separating the Flagstaff City Hall lawn where rally goers continued to rally at the No Kings rally. October 18, 2025. This image just about summed up the mood of the rally yesterday. Paradoxically, it was both serious and light-hearted at the same time. Speaking strictly for myself, there was a huge sense of relief being here with as many people that showed up. It was a break from the tedious daily stream of news highlighting the breaking down of civility in the function of federal government and the social ramifications that come with it. It helped quell the sense of isolation and helplessness that seems pervasive when trying to keep up with all the stupidity. At the No Kings rally in Flagstaff Arizona, hazard cones with messages stating, “Keep your cool. Hecklers want a reaction - don’t give it to them. Stay Peaceful, stay strong.” October 18, 2025. Possibly the best advice that could be given for the day in terms of how to deal with agitators looking to rationalize their own delusions as to who the “opposition” really is. Thankfully and almost predictably, no one showed up to give it a try.
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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#NoKings #Rally #Protest #October #Flagstaff #Arizona

#BlackAndWhite #Photography #EastCoastKin

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An inflatable Cartman costume worn my a rally goer walked menacing through the crowd at the No Kings rally in Flagstaff, Arizona. October 18, 2025 Having photographed multiple protests where people showed up representing Antifa in black garb and face coverings, I love the fact that people protesting the federal administration’s blatant disregard for human decency towards its own population have twisted the administration’s perversion of its so-called “anti-American” stereotype on its head. While there was a noticeable lack of frogs (presumably due to supply chain issues), people made up for it in terms of other inflatables. I mean, the question needs begging after, “who’s going to pepper spray/teargas [insert inflatable character here], and not feel like a total asshole?” Someone in an inflatable frog costume holds up a sign stating, “Frogs Together Strong,” at the No Kings rally in Flagstaff, Arizona. October 18, 2025 There were more inflatable T Rex costumes at this rally than frogs even though the frog theme seems to be “the thing” in places like Portland and Chicago over the last several weeks. I’m particularly attached to the frog fashion as it seems to be reappropriating the hapless amphibian from extreme right wingers who, during Trump’s first administration, used it a la 4chan as a mascot for their stupidity. Someone in a StayPuff Marshmallow inflatable holds up a sign saying, “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!” at the No Kings rally in Flagstaff Arizona. October 18, 2025. Love the nod to RATM here seen through the fictional apocalyptic lens of Ghostbusters. Before coming to the rally today, I read a quick AP article that stated that people opposed to the No Kings day, were calling them “Hate America” rallies. It’s so much easier to make a blanket statement that disagreement and criticism of the government is the exact same thing as “hating” the country, when the opposite holds more sway. A child in a Donkey inflatable, from the movie Shrek, strikes a pose at the No Kings rally in Flagstaff Arizona. October 18, 2025 The crowd at the rally wasn’t solely swaths of retired free speech hippies, although that demographic did make a showing. Many people felt the need to bring their children to not only witness the rally, but to participate, if the children so chose.
October 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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#NoKings #Rally #Protest #October #Flagstaff #Arizona

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A woman with inflatable American flag wings, American flag sunglasses, and two small American flags being held up behind her, holds up a sign saying, “Stop Corruption! You’re Fired! October 18, 2025, Flagstaff Arizona. A common theme in this particular rally, was the amount of American symbolism (flags, “We The People” calligraphy, etc.) on display. Not that it hasn’t been present at previous rallies and/or protests, but the frequency seems to be increasing in what feels like an attempt to steal back from right wing “conservatives” what the right wing constantly befouls by draping reactionary politics in said symbolism in an attempt to justify their wingnut fear-based beliefs. An older man wearing a t-shirt with the motto, “Same Shit, Different Hats,” smiles while holding a sign at the No Kings rally in Flagstaff, Arizona. October 18, 2025 The beautiful thing in this picture is the hat the military veteran is wearing, proclaiming his status as a veteran. He wasn’t the only veteran at the rally. One of the more heartening aspects of this rally was the fact that people who wouldn’t normally attend a rally like this, were out in force and ready and willing to speak their minds. A man holds up a sign stating, “Christian Nationalism is the American Taliban! Jesus wasn’t white!” At the No Kings rally in Flagstaff Arizona. October 18, 2025. The sign here seem to be asking for provocation from anyone opposed to the reasoning for the No Kings rally. Noteworthy was the complete absence of opposing view points to provoke. Sure, it’s the university town of Flagstaff, which isn’t exactly Trump country, but neither is it Portland Oregon. There was a thin line of protestors across Route 66 from the main lawn of City Hall, and while a quick glance might make it seem like a separation of factions, look a little harder and longer, and you’d find the thin line to also be No Kings supporters. A woman holds up a sign stating “Karma Is A Bitch (it’s coming)” while rallying in front of the Flagstaff, Arizona City Hall. October 18, 2025 The rally started later than other No Kings rallies around the state, but the atmosphere was no later or less than what I’ve seen in images and video from other rallies. In short, the crowd was there to celebrate their communal contempt for the current federal administration and its behavior. One of the more ironic sights at the rally was the handful of local police stationed at the entrance of the city hall, the irony being the absence of protesters whose political leanings would actually constitute a threat to the integrity of the government building being “defended.”
October 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The #human known as Tí.

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Photography #Portrait #DailyPhoto #EastCoastKin
A man named Tí photographed at his place of work.
September 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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#GoggleEyes make everything a #face. August 17, 2025

#Photography #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #FunnyFace #EastCoastKin #DailyPhoto
Someone stuck plastic goggle eyes on a paper towel dispenser in a bathroom in Wickenburg, AZ. August 17, 2025
August 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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In the #Blink of and #Eyelash in #Prescott, Arizona, 8/5/25

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #DailyPhoto
A black and white photo of the passenger side headlight with an eyelash sticker attached around the headlight to make it look like the headlight is an eye.
August 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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A #LoveLock for Peggy Bevins in #Prescott, #Arizona. August 3, 2025

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Photography #DailyPhoto
A love lock with the name “Peggy Bevins” hitched to a chain link fence full of locks in downtown Prescott, Arizona. August 3, 2025.
August 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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#Morning sun bathing for Rosie on a #PerfectDay

#BlackAndWhite #Photography #Dog #Beautiful #DailyPhoto
Rosie the dog sun bathing first thing in the morning, on a deck, with a perfect temperature and a perfect wind, in August, in Prescott, Az.
August 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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#Pickup in a matchbox parking lot in #Prescott, Arizona. August 3, 2025.

#BlackAndWhite #Photography #LateAfternoon #Shadows #DailyPhoto
A black and white photograph of a nearly empty parking lot in downtown Prescott, Arizona. The only car in the lot is an old pickup at the very end of the lot.
August 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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A #Wickenburg Arizona vertical #night lizard.

#BlackAndWhite #Photography #Shadow #DailyPhoto
I lizard suctioned to a stucco wall late at night in Wickenburg Arizona.
August 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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#Night statue taken while at the #Biltmore, July 7 2025

#BlackAndWhite #Photography #FrankLloydWright #EastCoastKin #DailyPhoto
One of many statues found on the grounds of the Biltmore Resort in Scottsdale Arizona. The resort was initially designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his artistic minions.
August 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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#Birds on a wire at #Sundown. May 20 2025.

#BlackAndWhite #Photography #Abstract #Dusk #EastCoastKin #DailyPhoto
Two birds sitting on an electrical wire at Sundown.
August 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Also it’s #SelfieSunday and I thought I’d put up something to-the-point as it were.

#Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Selfie #SelfPortrait #BlackAndWhite
A self portrait with a kind of serious face and me wearing sunglasses. I take the center of a horizontal frame and am sandwiched between two really overexposed windows in the background. I am slightly off kilter in being frame in a third window in the background.
May 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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It’s #Stunday and I thought I’d offer up the solution to that song about the #desert missing the #rain.

#BlackAndWhite #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Rainbow #Landscape #Storm
A black and white image of a half rainbow stretching across a dark clouded sky over the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 somewhere in the Mojave Desert.
May 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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More #lines, lines, everywhere lines for today’s #BlueskyArtShow.

#BlackAndWhite #PhotographersOfBluesky #Trees #WatsonLake
Trees stand in lop-sided attention and the late afternoon light, in the water of an overflowing lower Watson Lake in Prescott, Arizona. There are hills in the background and whiteish rings around the bases of the trees.
May 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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#Lines, lines, everywhere lines. All for today’s #BlueskyArtShow.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Shadows #BlackAndWhite #SkatePark #Skater
Diagonal lines stretch parallel to each other, vertical from bottom left to to right. One horizontal line cuts the vertical lines perpendicular. They’re all long afternoon shadows of a gate projected on to concrete by the sun. In the top left corner of the frame two legs and a skateboard skate along the horizontal shadow making it seem like the skater is riding the top rail of the gate.
May 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Can we #escape the #Scape? Somewhere between #Flagstaff and #Albuquerque.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Color #Dinosaur
A color image taken late in the day of some kind carnivorous dinosaur with a claw on some kind of herbivorous dinosaur, all in the foreground. Two out of focus teepees are in the background along with a flat desert horizon.
May 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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And maybe one more for #UrbanGaze this #Thursday

#BlackAndWhite #Film 🎞️ #Cityscape #FilmPhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky
A black and white image where the top third of the frame has a blue sky with streaks of clouds in the background and a coil of razor wire in the foreground with thin sheets of plastic caught in the razor wire. The bottom two thirds of the frame is a cement brick wall with the contrasty shadows of thick tree branches projected onto the wall.
May 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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A little something for #UrbanGaze this #Thursday

#BlackAndWhite #Carnival #Night #PhotographersOfBluesky
The bottom of the frame is a silhouette of two adults with their backs to the camera and leaning on a guardrail, look at a carnival ride for smaller kids go around in circles. The top of the frame has a small child sitting in a flying elephant figure attached its apex and attached to a long arm of the ride.
May 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Saw @actualylt.bsky.social tonight at the #OrpheumTheater in #Flagstaff. Such an incredible show.

#LongExposure #Music
The top half of the stage at the Orpheum Theater in Flagstaff Arizona is sitting at the bottom of the frame, while the rest of the frame is filled with a series of long exposure light trails emanating from a disco ball in the center frame. Also, Yo La Tengo was amazing!
May 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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It’s a #portrait of a real life #clown, back when clowns weren’t always immediately associated with #politicians

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #People #Beautiful #film 🎞️ #MediumFormat #6x7 #color
A professional clown with a mohawk and makeup washed off his face stand in front of an upright piano facing the camera while holding an old black hat against his chest. Both the piano and the clown are decorated with several red roses. There are candelabras on the upright piano.
May 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Going for #SelfieSunday in #BlackAndWhite and potentially missing #eyeball?!

#Photography #SelfPortrait
It’s a black and white close up portrait of good ol’ me, wearing glasses, a hat, and itching my left eye with my left middle finger.
April 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Daylight #Moon framed by trees branches for the #Friday
#Scape

#Photography #Sky #Color #EastCoastKin
The moon in the middle, high in the sky during midday, framed by naked tree branches in a clearing of the canopy.
April 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I had a #dream the other night. The #light was on, but it was #dark anyway. She was well guarded.

#BlueskyArtShow #Video #MovingPortrait #Story #Monochrome #Beautiful #Night
April 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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It’s all just a #dream, this whole #BlueskyArtShow. It’s like #SmokeAndMirrors

#Photography #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Abstract #EastCoastKin
A black and white photograph of a hand grabbing at the throat of a man in profile. He squints with his left eye closed. He also holds up a mirror with the reflection of his right eye, which looks open and calm, staring off frame and towards where the hand is coming from.
April 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM