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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 370,150 photos, 89,811 members
- Albuquerque/Santa Fe Social 6,819 photos, 580 members
- ALL CATS ^..^ NO PEOPLE -- SHOW US YOUR SLEEPlNG KlTTlES! 202,030 photos, 25,794 members
- Your Best Shot 2010 20,281 photos, 24,830 members
- Only In Albuquerque 405 photos, 65 members
- Abq. ATSF Rail Yard/Sheds 632 photos, 58 members
- Death of the Service Station 2,082 photos, 370 members
- Ghost Towns 17,910 photos, 2,543 members
- Train Stations - the older the better 19,262 photos, 2,611 members
- Texas -The Lone Star State - Tejas - TX - All The Great Views 56,096 photos, 2,043 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 ! 1,712 photos, 575 members
- Decayed yet Hauntingly Beautiful 83,399 photos, 6,641 members
- Route 66 Albuquerque 1,011 photos, 89 members
- Western Decay 1,324 photos, 43 members
- Industrial Decay 94,615 photos, 8,337 members
- Rusty Cars 23,621 photos, 2,774 members
- Junkers -n- Classics (OLD CARS TRUCKS,TRACTORS,BOATS,AIRPLANES , 82,545 photos, 3,830 members
- Carmageddon 14,167 photos, 930 members
- Motel & Hotel Signs (No postcards, please) 19,450 photos, 1,365 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 260 photos, 117 members
- 50's and 60's Motels 4,035 photos, 339 members
- *Landscapes of the West* 1,308 photos, 99 members
- Dunes 5,419 photos, 807 members
- The American Roadside 44,224 photos, 1,107 members
- New Mexico Signs 2,188 photos, 121 members
- Utah 38,185 photos, 2,137 members
- Rural Darkness 9,058 photos, 931 members
- US Highway - Route 66 = The Mother Road Route66 15,971 photos, 902 members
- Quality Abstracts 8,664 photos, 7,060 members
- Lost America 7,395 photos, 182 members
- Gas Pumps & Stations 7,165 photos, 1,053 members
- TRUCKS-OLD-RUSTY-TRUCKS! 6,827 photos, 750 members
- Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 3,709 photos, 528 members
- Albuquerque BioPark 1,432 photos, 123 members
- Albuquerque Old Town 756 photos, 135 members
- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument 253 photos, 38 members
- Abandonded Gas Stations 3,428 photos, 647 members
- Enchanted Expanses - New Mexico Skies 2,737 photos, 169 members
- Petroglyph National Monument & Volcano Park. Albuquerque 209 photos, 27 members
- The Look of Southwest 15,471 photos, 901 members
- Albuquerque Signs 1,256 photos, 109 members
- Any Derelict Building 74,264 photos, 3,571 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 (Off Grid in Myanmar) 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