MiguelATF's photos
Afternoon light
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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James
Sharing a beer with my friend Bob in Ashland, in the afternoon light.
Library Bug
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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
― Franz Kafka
Large stuffed toy Insect reading a book in the children's section of the local library in Talent, Oregon.
h-g-u-o-T (mirror image)
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“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
― Ansel Adams
Mirror-image of my Olympus Tough camera.
Fiddler
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“Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.”
― Duke Ellington
Fiddler at a musician's jam session in southern Oregon.
Barbershop Bear
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“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”
― Margaret Atwood
Stuffed bear on a log inside the coolest barbershop in Grants Pass, Oregon, the G Street Barber Co.
Banana in Winter
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“If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.”
― Terry Pratchett
A banana plant surviving a cold winter inside a greenhouse in southern Oregon.
ZOO YORK in OREGON
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“Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings”
― Evan Esar
Dude in a Zoo York hoodie in rural southern Oregon. Güey en sudadera Zoo York en el campo de Oregon sur.
Pressure
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“I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.”
― Gary Larson
Pressure gauge on coffee roasting machine, at Case Coffee, in Ashland, Oregon.
Buddha Hand
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“Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.”
― Anthony Horowitz
Buddha/Hand for sale in a supermarket in Ashland, Oregon.
Taillight
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“We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.”
― Rod Serling
Taillight of an old car sitting in the driveway of a small southern Oregon town.
HEAD SHOT / FOTO DE ROSTRO / TRÈS GROS PLAN
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“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
(Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
"...he told a TV journalist that "if the president does it, it can't be illegal..."
(Hunter S. Thompson: He was a Crook, obituary of Richard Nixon)
The squeeze-toy of Donald Trump's head, given to me for my birthday. No rest for the wicked.
Ford pickup truck
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I just want to tailgate, drink beer, and hang out in the middle of nowhere in a pick-up truck. That's my ideal date.
(Ronda Rousey)
An old Ford pickup truck in a small town in Oregon.
Fire Hydrant Nut
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“Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.”
― Ann Landers
Nut on top of a fire hydrant in downtown Talent, Oregon.
Rhino in the Window
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“It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.”
― G.K. Chesterton
Rhinoceros in the window of a house, in Talent, Oregon.
Screaming Goat
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“When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,
and the meaning has to go find an author again.
― William Stafford
My tiny toy 'Screaming Goat', sitting atop my desk in the room where I write.
Dodge Truck
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A guy who loves his truck needs other people to admire his driving machine. Yeah, needs. That's the truth. I don't know why, but that's the way truck guys are.” (Benjamin Alire Sáenz)
Rusted old Dodge truck parked alongside a rural road outside of Ashland, Oregon.
Taken with the Olympus TG-5
Monkey Primate
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“Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.”
― Malcolm de Chazal
The small plastic jumping monkey who sits above my writing desk, surrounded by other action figures.
Taken with the Oympus TG-5
Reynolds Woodcock Hair
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“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
― Jim Morrison
"What game? What precisely is the nature of my game?"
― Reynolds Woodcock (from the movie "Phantom Thread")
My friend Chase Danielle who is a brilliant barber gave me a shortish haircut; but now that it is growing out, it's starting to look a little like Reynolds Woodcock's, in the movie 'Phantom Thread'. Which is not a bad thing.
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