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• I'm a photographer based in Portland, Oregon. Thank you for visiting my stream. Your comments, favorites and notes are greatly appreciated. Really! All photos in my stream are available as prints and most may be licensed for other uses. If you'd like to know more please contact me, visit my site or subscribe to my feed.•

The photo above is by HJ Schmidt of Bozeman, MT and used with permission.

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"Don't believe the hype."
-Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Sadler, Shocklee

"It's a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking."
-George MacDonald Fraser

“What were we trying to do? Were we trying to show off? Were we trying to kill ourselves? – No! We wanted to inhale and breathe life again. We were rebelling against an existence which human kind has forced upon itself. We were rebelling against an existence full of distorted values, against an existence where a man is judged by the size of his living-room, by the amount of chromium on his car. But here we were ourselves again: simple and pure. Friends in the mountains.”
-Hans Gmoser

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
-Henry David Thoreau

“Basically, I just hope that what I have to say in the photographs has validity and that I did it as well as I could.”
-Jerome Liebling

"One does not have to be a hard-core environmental activist to question the wisdom of letting corporations develop public land to service their debt and boost shareholders' profits without materially advancing the public good."
-Hal Clifford

This establishment puts no premium on clever tricks or cute business practice. Be open, frank, above all, Honest. Decide on the simple law of right or wrong-then you can't go wrong.
-Samuel H. Halle

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