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Collection: family: Nona Rae Lynch

2011-12-12T10:37:00.001-05:00

The late, great Nona Rae Lynch. Vivacious and lovely dance instructor to countless kids in my home town of Pullman, Washington. I will always remember her off to the side of the set at Spokane's KHQ-TV all the times I tap-danced on our local televised talent show, Starlit Stairway. Murdered in 1979, Nona Rae and her husband Bob will always be remembered as kind, loving, and generous people. The world is a lesser place without her.

Collection: April Fecca: Tintype

2011-12-12T10:26:00.000-05:00

Collection: April Fecca: Tintype

2011-12-12T10:25:00.000-05:00

Collection: April Fecca: Old Man Whitebeard

2011-12-12T10:23:00.001-05:00

Collection: April Fecca: three girls

2011-12-12T10:22:00.001-05:00

Collection: Family: Stella Saunders

2011-06-11T22:22:00.000-04:00

Collection: Family: Dad's Cats

2011-06-11T22:21:00.000-04:00

Collection: Found: Pajama Party

2011-06-08T09:22:00.000-04:00

Collection: Found: Memento Mori

2011-06-08T09:15:00.000-04:00

Collection: Found: Prom

2011-06-08T09:09:00.000-04:00

Collection: Family: George, Mom, Dad, Rose in Jail

2011-06-08T09:05:00.000-04:00

Collection: Found: Boys In Tuxedos

2011-06-07T13:33:00.002-04:00

Collection: Family: Shuckin' Corn

2011-06-07T13:32:00.003-04:00

Collection: Found: The Drivers View

2011-06-07T13:31:00.002-04:00

Collection: Found : Cute Kid

2011-06-07T13:30:00.001-04:00

Collection: Family: Cougar Hunt

2011-06-07T13:29:00.000-04:00

Collection: Found: Boys with Ballons

2011-06-07T13:28:00.000-04:00

Collection: Family: Bi-Plane

2011-06-07T13:27:00.003-04:00

Collection: Found: Fence O' Death

2011-06-07T13:26:00.002-04:00

Collection: Found: Baby Propped by Mother

2011-06-07T13:23:00.000-04:00

Collection: Found Photos: Jim and Jack

2009-06-02T20:09:00.002-04:00

Death on the trail Jim and Jack

Collection : Found Photos: Josef

2009-06-02T20:06:00.002-04:00

Collection: Found Photos: Our Darling

2009-06-02T20:04:00.002-04:00

Collection: Found Photos: Gravesite

2009-06-02T20:02:00.002-04:00

Collection: Found Photos: Little Willie

2009-06-02T18:52:00.002-04:00

Collection: Found Photo: Roy Garlow

2009-06-02T18:01:00.004-04:00

Roy Irwin Garlow
Died at 17
Concordia Kansas

Roy Irwin Garlow died at 17

Concordia Kansas

Collection: Lomo: Wayne

2009-04-13T10:56:00.005-04:00

Collection: Lomo: Chevy Van

2009-04-11T15:10:00.005-04:00

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Eudora Welty said...

2009-04-11T10:35:00.007-04:00

" I learned in the doing how ready I had to be. Life doesn't hold still. A good snapshot stopped a moment from running away. Photography taught me that to be able to capture transience, by being ready to click the shutter at the crucial moment, was the greatest need I had. Making pictures of people in all sorts of situations, I learned that every feeling waits upon its gesture; and I had to be prepared to recognize the moment when I saw it." - Eudora Welty

Collection: Drive By

2009-04-11T10:30:00.001-04:00

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I Collect Photographs of Other People?

2009-01-27T15:50:00.000-05:00

For years I've been collecting photographs. No, I don't have some pricey pile of Anton Corbijn images in a vault. What I do have is boxes of someone else's old discarded memories. Family photos from someone else's family. Who knows how these pictures can escape a familys grasp. But they do. In various antique, thrift, junque stores and flea markets i've found everything from ancient tin-types and cartes de visite to Memorial photos to somebodys kid's school pictures to whole family photo albums containing pictures from the late 1800's to the 1980's. Of course I don't collect just any old picture. It has to have a Un/certain something about it. Maybe it's double exposed. Maybe it's some kids in crazy costumes. Maybe it's just a family grouped on the front porch. It has to speak to me in some way. It has to move me.

"I'm sure my customers never think about it, but these snapshots are their little stand against the flow of time. The shutter clicked. Flash goes off. and they stop time. Just for the blink of an eye...and if these pictures have anything important to say to future generations...it's this: I was here. I existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world...to take my picture. " - Sy the photo guy

Collection : found : Mother and Mandy

2009-01-26T21:57:00.000-05:00

Collection: found: The Old Man's Christmas Card

2009-01-26T21:56:00.000-05:00

Collection: family: Ladies and guns

2009-01-26T21:49:00.000-05:00

Collection: family: Charles and daddie

2009-01-26T21:46:00.001-05:00

Collection: Family : Clouds

2009-01-26T21:42:00.000-05:00

Polaroids by my late Mother. Inscribed on verso:
"For some reason I like to take pictures of clouds"

Collection: Family : Bull Elk

2009-01-26T21:39:00.000-05:00

Collection: found : Party Time 2

2009-01-26T14:36:00.001-05:00

Collection: found : Party Time 1

2009-01-26T14:35:00.000-05:00

Collection: found: Dr. Brown

2009-01-26T14:26:00.000-05:00

Collection: found: Sailor and friend

2009-01-23T08:33:00.000-05:00

Collection:found: One Eyed man

2009-01-23T08:27:00.000-05:00

Collection: found: Jacksonville Florida Fish Camp

2009-01-23T08:24:00.000-05:00

Collection: found: Baby Strips

2009-01-23T08:14:00.000-05:00

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Collection: Family : Dad with hat

2009-01-23T08:11:00.000-05:00

Collection: Family

2009-01-21T22:05:00.000-05:00

Original photos are approx. 2" x 2".
Found in a box of family photos.