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"Not All Who Wander Are Lost"
----Bumper-sticker seen in Charleston, South Carolina
I'm usually found standing on a street corner with a cardboard sign that reads "WILL WORK FOR FILM". A permanently constipated writer (but still obsessive bookworm) who got into photography in a bass ackwards way, I discovered a viewfinder could do the job without a dreaded blinking cursor on a blank screen. Now I suffer from diarrhea of the shutter-button finger.
My life's goal is to visit and photograph in all fifty states in the U.S.. When I've done that, then I'll get a passport. While I'll do the obligitory tourist thing, my primary interest is along the backroads far off the tourist routes. Cities are beautiful, but the heart is in those tiny towns and lonely roads.
visited 23 states (46%)Create your own visited map of The United States or another interesting project
I happen to think I'm lucky enough to have some of the most talented photographers on flickr (or anywhere else, for that matter) as contacts. They inspire me every day. Please check them out.
Some of my images are for sale as fine art prints at:
www.jwoodphoto.imagekind.com
Photos of jwoodphoto (1)
jwoodphoto's favorite photos from other Flickr members (16,469)
Contacts (306)
Groups (50)
- Group with experience 380,897 photos, 91,285 members
- Albuquerque/Santa Fe Social 6,820 photos, 580 members
- ALL CATS ^..^ NO PEOPLE -- SHOW US YOUR SLEEPlNG KlTTlES! 202,258 photos, 25,793 members
- Your Best Shot 2010 20,265 photos, 24,811 members
- Only In Albuquerque 405 photos, 65 members
- Abq. ATSF Rail Yard/Sheds 632 photos, 58 members
- Death of the Service Station 2,083 photos, 370 members
- Ghost Towns 17,935 photos, 2,543 members
- Train Stations - the older the better 19,301 photos, 2,612 members
- Texas -The Lone Star State - Tejas - TX - All The Great Views 56,206 photos, 2,044 members
- Rail Runner of New Mexico 280 photos, 37 members
- New Mexico In Black And White 430 photos, 44 members
- Route 66 New Mexico 315 photos, 13 members
- New Mexico Film Photographers 195 photos, 27 members
- VINTAGE CAFE SIGNS ONLY ! 1,711 photos, 575 members
- Decayed yet Hauntingly Beautiful 83,534 photos, 6,643 members
- Route 66 Albuquerque 1,030 photos, 90 members
- Western Decay 1,322 photos, 43 members
- Industrial Decay 94,836 photos, 8,344 members
- Rusty Cars 23,707 photos, 2,779 members
- Junkers -n- Classics (OLD CARS TRUCKS,TRACTORS,BOATS,AIRPLANES , 82,699 photos, 3,833 members
- Carmageddon 14,177 photos, 931 members
- Motel & Hotel Signs (No postcards, please) 19,451 photos, 1,369 members
- New Mexico Thunderstorms 975 photos, 187 members
- New Mexico State Fair/NM Expo 550 photos, 54 members
- abandoned new mexico 637 photos, 135 members
- NAM: The North American Monsoon 90 photos, 19 members
- Turquoise and Rust 263 photos, 117 members
- 50's and 60's Motels 4,036 photos, 341 members
- *Landscapes of the West* 1,308 photos, 99 members
- Dunes 5,434 photos, 810 members
- The American Roadside 44,384 photos, 1,108 members
- New Mexico Signs 2,188 photos, 121 members
- Utah 38,079 photos, 2,144 members
- Rural Darkness 9,077 photos, 932 members
- US Highway - Route 66 = The Mother Road Route66 15,982 photos, 904 members
- Quality Abstracts 8,651 photos, 7,055 members
- Lost America 7,433 photos, 183 members
- Gas Pumps & Stations 7,169 photos, 1,053 members
- TRUCKS-OLD-RUSTY-TRUCKS! 6,836 photos, 752 members
- Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 3,703 photos, 528 members
- Albuquerque BioPark 1,436 photos, 123 members
- Albuquerque Old Town 756 photos, 135 members
- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument 253 photos, 38 members
- Abandonded Gas Stations 3,435 photos, 648 members
- Enchanted Expanses - New Mexico Skies 2,742 photos, 169 members
- Petroglyph National Monument & Volcano Park. Albuquerque 209 photos, 27 members
- The Look of Southwest 15,501 photos, 902 members
- Albuquerque Signs 1,259 photos, 109 members
- Any Derelict Building 74,421 photos, 3,573 members
Testimonials (6)
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James Edward Creamer says:
"from her photos i feel like we love the same aspects of new mexico. an amazing photographer."
17th August, 2008
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The Eleven says:
"I have never known such an excellent photographer. Someday I hope to rise to her imaging standards. I will say that she has taught me a lot about my own photography. It makes me happy to hear her comments and see what images of mine she favorites. I aspire to be as adventerous as she in my photographic journeys. Thanks for your images and insight jwood."
7th June, 2008
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Jen Murray (tollerSCREAM) says:
"Her photography takes my breath away... I like to wait to visit, so that I can completely lose myself in her photos, her landscape, and her gorgeous colors - for extended periods of time..."
2nd July, 2007
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Storm_Catcher says:
"Some of the best photos of Southwest USA on Flickr. Wonderful range, style, vision and imagination."
26th June, 2007
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taylorkoa22 says:
"I have seen the TRUTH and it is J....Some of the most profound images you will see on flickr come from this photographer....The photos have been thought-out and captured so well that just looking at them makes me want to quit....See for yourself and do not skip a page.
She is what I want to be when I grow up :-) It is those quiet ones that you have to watch out for....They are deadly with a camera"4th June, 2007
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Mark Griffith (Back in Beijing) says:
"J - Wood
Who knows her real name? Who knows what she really looks like? (Apparently she(?) is not bitten by the narcissistic bug that buzzes around so many people with a camera)
Regardless and besides the point, her photos evoke the south west, the light, the open space, the rock and the expanse. They make me ache for the dry air and the dessert sky. I live amidst the green, which I love, but I long to return to the quiet places that are captured so eloquently in jwoodphoto's stream."8th April, 2007
- Name:
- j wood
- Joined:
- June 2006
- Hometown:
- Albuquerque
- Currently:
- Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
- I am:
- Taken
- Occupation:
- photographer
- Website:
- J Wood Photography