Kamakura, 5 December, 2024

 

A photo I took; Great Buddha at Kamakura, Japan; 5 December, 2024. The moon and Venus appeared behind stacks of fulgent clouds; crows flew and rasped in mystery, about the evocative statue. 

In Kyoto Station, September 2023

 

Dreams and visions, Kyoto Station, September 2023 (from photos I took, on a recent voyage) -JF 

Season's Greetings and Yuletide Visions

 

I'm posting this photo I took in Paris, 17 December, 2013 (at a Christmas market on the Champs-Élysées), as we creak past another solstice. Holiday greetings! 

42nd Street Precognition

 A photo I took; NYC, 10-17-19. 

Enter the Neo-20s

Happy New Year, and return of the 20s!

An instant I caught, from a Chinese New Year lion dance, Portland, Oregon, 1993. Note the sign for the defunct strip club, Magic A Go-Go, near the center of the photo.  (As to when the 20s, or any decade, century, or millennium, start, that is open to differing views, as with the big odometer roll-over in 2000. At least 2020 starts a nominal decade, which has some psychic reality.)

Tintype

Tintype

Profile

 A photograph of me, around age ten.

Norway

Vigeland Park, Oslo, Norway, 2 October, 2018; Herre, Norway, 1 October, 2018. Photos by JF.

Lake Como

 Sunset at Lake Como, Italy, 9-22-18.

Vanitas rambling, in the Columbia River Gorge

"Tested" -- a lone power pole, yoked to emptiness, ascended through the woods.

Behind me, the land, returning to a primal state.

Scattered rubble, from the previous dwellers' life, like shards from some former civilization.

Wood fading to flora. Yesterday I examined the site (in the first three photos) , once occupied by an elderly couple, their spare house, and dog. Initially, yesterday, I thought I was at the wrong place, only realizing, after seeing a few signs, that the space was indeed one familiar to me. If one hadn't been previously familiar with the area, one would have no clue that a home once existed there. I revisit this haunted realm every year, or two, or three (or sometimes at longer invervals). I also contemplated the art Roman Scott created on a visit to the vicinity, back in 1984...

Photos by JF

       

       

Portland in the Shortest Month, in 1993

Chinatown Gateway

Chinatown Gateway Lions

Cameron's Bookstore, and adjacent business of the day

At the Japanese American Historical Plaza

Photos by JF, taken in Portland, Oregon, February, 1993.

Billie Dove, Kay Francis, Marian Marsh: Publicity of the Elegiac

Billie Dove, Kay Francis, & Marian Marsh ("Marilyn Morgan").  From The New Movie Magazine, September 1930.

Jackie Coogan

Jackie Coogan, staring vulnerably at us, from a zone somewhere between The Kid, and Uncle Fester. From The New Movie Magazine, September 1930.

Harriet Lake (Ann Sothern)

Ann Sothern, under a variant of her original name, from The New Movie Magazine, September, 1930.

Midtown Manhattan, September, 1994

I call this photo "217." I snapped it on a visit to New York City in September, 1994. The purposeful pedestrians took on an inadvertent, geometrical progression.

Parents, circa 1953

 

My parents, ca. 1953.

Petroglyphs North

 Bronze or Iron Age petroglyphs, in the vicinity of Skien, Norway (on a visit to Roman and Heidi Scott). Photo by JF, June 2003. Possible sun/ ship/ calendrical markings, appropriate now, close after the winter solstice.

Merry Christmas, Saturnalia, and holidays to all who partake!

Nostalgia of the One Percent

My parents, Oregon, May 1954.

Veterans Day 2017

Dad, USMC, ca. 1946. (A couple days' late for Armistice Day.)

Grandfather, Granduncles, January 11, 1951

My grandfather, Fred Clark (fourth from left), and most of his brothers, probably in Ennis, Montana, January 11, 1951. There is a an elegiac sense here, a feeling that the photo could almost have emerged from 1880 rather than the 1950s. The Place of Dead Roads... Quién es?

The saloon might have been Oscar Clark's, mentioned by the late Dr. Losee.