You and Me Chasing Paper

"I think photography is editing, start to finish- editing life, selecting part of it to stand for the whole." --Robert Adams



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Basic Training, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX: 1 April 2011

Basic Training, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX: 1 April 2011

Dan, home after Navy Training Command clinicals.
“It is common for those who have glimpsed something beautiful to express regret at not having been able to photograph it.  So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of beautiful.”—Susan Sontag, On Photography
San Antonio, TX: 7 April 2011

Dan, home after Navy Training Command clinicals.

“It is common for those who have glimpsed something beautiful to express regret at not having been able to photograph it.  So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of beautiful.”

—Susan Sontag, On Photography

San Antonio, TX: 7 April 2011

Cracker-Jacked Dan, post uniform inspection and hating every minute of it. Well, not his Warsteiner and Lone Star hybrid.
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX: 12 April 2011

Cracker-Jacked Dan, post uniform inspection and hating every minute of it. Well, not his Warsteiner and Lone Star hybrid.

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX: 12 April 2011

Hotel, Great Lakes, IL: 8 May 2010

Hotel, Great Lakes, IL: 8 May 2010

Opening remarks
Graduation, Consolidated Surgical Technologist Program, Class 11005Fort Sam Houston in conjunction with Methodist Hospital
San Antonio, TX: 29 April 2011

Opening remarks

Graduation, Consolidated Surgical Technologist Program, Class 11005
Fort Sam Houston in conjunction with Methodist Hospital

San Antonio, TX: 29 April 2011

View from my hotel room while visiting Dan (his first visit after boot camp) Great Lakes, IL: 8 May 2010

View from my hotel room while visiting Dan (his first visit after boot camp) Great Lakes, IL: 8 May 2010

“Nobody ever really loved a lover. Because love was a private party, and nobody got on the guest list. She liked the pictures of Yoko and John in their white bed, their frizzy hippie hair. They’d retreated to the country with two passports only.”
—Janet Fitch, Paint It Black

Great Lakes, Illinois: 9 May 2010

“Nobody ever really loved a lover. Because love was a private party, and nobody got on the guest list. She liked the pictures of Yoko and John in their white bed, their frizzy hippie hair. They’d retreated to the country with two passports only.”

—Janet Fitch, Paint It Black

Great Lakes, Illinois: 9 May 2010


The twinkle of headlights and low fog on Vandegrift Blvd.
Camp Pendleton, California: 24 September 2012
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The twinkle of headlights and low fog on Vandegrift Blvd.

Camp Pendleton, California: 24 September 2012

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