MiguelATF's photos

“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.

“She who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.” ― Claudio Encarnacion Montero A collection of my favorite toy action figures sits on the bookcase behind my writing desk, watching over me.

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all.” ― Stephen King Giant larger-than-lifesize cardboard cutout of the school mascot at a southern Oregon university.

“The Eagles are coming! The Eagles are coming!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien Taken in the Student Union of Southern Oregon University, whose mascot, the Raiders, is sometimes represented by an eagle.

Yo que sentí el horror de los espejos no sólo ante el cristal impenetrable donde acaba y empieza, inhabitable, un imposible espacio de reflejos (Jorge Luis Borges) I have felt the horror of mirrors not only before the impenetrable glass where it finishes and it begins, uninhabitable, an impossible space of reflections Taken with my new (to me) GX8 camera.

“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.” ― Roland Barthes An old rusted Plymouth sedan, parked alongside a rural highway in southern Oregon.

“The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.” ― Marshall McLuhan Taken in a rural area of southern Oregon with my Nikon Coolpix A.

"J'ai fini par me taire et j'ai fumé en regardant la mer." (Albert Camus) “I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”

“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned” ― Cormac McCarthy PRIVATE PROPERTY sign on train tracks somewhere in Oregon.

“Los hermanos sean unidos porque esa es la ley primera; tengan unión verdadera en cualquier tiempo que sea...” ― José Hernández (Martín Fierro) Olof and Bjorn haven't seen each other for a long time. But brothers have a way of communicating without words.