Laughing head / Cabeza riéndose

Lumix G-Series (GX8, GX7, GX1)


Photographs taken with my micro 4/3 Panasonic Lumix cameras

Laughing head / Cabeza riéndose

08 May 2017 717
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” ― George Bernard Shaw Laughing head sculpture in a Chinese restaurant in southern Oregon.

Good-luck cat / Gato buena suerte / Chat de bonne…

08 May 2017 2 2 808
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ― Cormac McCarthy Taken in a Chinese restaurant in Oregon, with my GX8 camera.

Mirror Image

13 Jun 2017 1 2 886
“For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.” ― Vladimir Nabokov

My friend Olaf

15 Jun 2017 5 6 1175
“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Stuffed Shark

15 Jun 2017 570
"Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.” ― Neil Gaiman A stuffed toy shark in the local organic community supermarket in Ashland, Oregon.

E. 6th Street, Medford, Oregon

15 Jun 2017 1 2 856
“Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question...” ― T.S. Eliot East 6th Street in downtown Medford, Oregon, on a warm June night.

Bengard Broccoli

16 Jun 2017 1 911
“Don't be a salad, be the best damn broccoli you could ever be.” ― PewDiePie Vegetable garbage pile behind a supermarket in Talent, Oregon.

la vie commence / life starts / la vida empieza

17 Jun 2017 2 4 737
La vie commence à cinquante ans, c'est vrai; à ceci près qu'elle se termine à quarante. ― Michel Houellebecq Life begins at fifty, that’s true, inasmuch as it ends at forty. La vida empieza a los cincuenta años, es cierto; con la salvedad de que termina a los cuarenta. Late night ruminations after a long writing session.

Truck on the Highway

18 Jun 2017 4 6 1177
“The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate.” ― Hunter S. Thompson 18-wheeler truck parked by the side of the highway which runs between Talent and Ashland, in southern Oregon. Taken with an infrared-converted Lumix GX1.

Kids' Bathroom

18 Jun 2017 570
“Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.” ― Jim Butcher Tiny cutout photos of siblings Opal & Ira decorate this kids' bathroom.

Tante Hélène's Typewriter

20 Jun 2017 4 751
“take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning” ― Charles Bukowski The typewriter my Aunt Helen - who preferred to be called Tante Hélène - wrote all her manuscripts, novels and books on. She is gone now but her words live on.

Dead Bird

21 Jun 2017 1 669
“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.” ― E.B. White (Charlotte's Web) On the sidewalk, in Central Point, Oregon, a small dead bird lay there when I was walking along on a horribly hot June day. And part of me was thinking: well, at least if you're dead, the heat can't kill you.

Pee-Wee Herman doll

27 Jun 2017 3 931
"This was a particularly eerie doll." ― Augusten Burroughs A large Pee-Wee Herman doll, given to me years ago, sitting in Chairy atop a bookcase in my writing office...and always smiling at me.

Free Toilet

26 Jun 2017 5 11 1435
“I wanted nothing for free. Nothing came for free at our place anyway.” ― Markus Zusak Free toilet, being given away, out in front of a suburban house in a small town in southern Oregon. Taken with the Lumix GX8 and the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens.

Baseball Fans

30 Jun 2017 1 557
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” ― Leo Durocher Baseball fans at a minor league baseball game in southern Oregon.

Roadkill

01 Jul 2017 1 2 797
“Be careful, or be roadkill!” ― Bill Watterson (Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection) Dead squirrel / roadkill - on a heavily-trafficked rural street in Talent, Oregon.

Electric Power Meter

06 Jul 2017 3 960
“There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.” ― Bram Stoker Electric power meter in downtown Talent, Oregon.

Fresh Dairy

05 Aug 2017 1 2 819
“At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people.” ― Robert A. Heinlein Small supermarket in a small town in southern Oregon.

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