MiguelATF's photos
Baseball Fans
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“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”
― Leo Durocher
Baseball fans at a minor league baseball game in southern Oregon.
Free Toilet
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“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.
Pee-Wee Herman doll
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"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.
Disembodied Legs
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“You're not allowed to have legs and not use them.
Dance.”
― Dianna Hardy
Disembodied legs protruding from an automobile transmission - advertising an automotive repair shop, in Central Point, Oregon.
Dusty's Transmissions
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In Central Point, Oregon. Makes you stop and think. If you're driving, it might make you crash.
Dead Bird
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“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.
Tante Hélène's Typewriter
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“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.
Kids' Bathroom
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“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.
Truck on the Highway
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“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.
la vie commence / life starts / la vida empieza
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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.
Bengard Broccoli
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“Don't be a salad, be the best damn broccoli you could ever be.”
― PewDiePie
Vegetable garbage pile behind a supermarket in Talent, Oregon.
E. 6th Street, Medford, Oregon
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“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.
Autorretrato
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“Todos los grandes cuadros son en realidad autorretratos.”
― Donna Tartt
Taken with the Lumix GX8, and the DJI/Panasonic/Leica 15mm lens.
Stuffed Shark
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"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.
My friend Olaf
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“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
Mirror Image
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“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
Bee Crossing
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“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
― David Foster Wallace
Good-luck cat / Gato buena suerte / Chat de bonne…
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“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.
