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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 371,797 photos, 90,040 members
- Albuquerque/Santa Fe Social 6,819 photos, 580 members
- ALL CATS ^..^ NO PEOPLE -- SHOW US YOUR SLEEPlNG KlTTlES! 202,151 photos, 25,796 members
- Your Best Shot 2010 20,273 photos, 24,824 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 17,912 photos, 2,543 members
- Train Stations - the older the better 19,275 photos, 2,612 members
- Texas -The Lone Star State - Tejas - TX - All The Great Views 56,125 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 ! 1,712 photos, 575 members
- Decayed yet Hauntingly Beautiful 83,398 photos, 6,642 members
- Route 66 Albuquerque 1,030 photos, 90 members
- Western Decay 1,322 photos, 43 members
- Industrial Decay 94,640 photos, 8,338 members
- Rusty Cars 23,634 photos, 2,775 members
- Junkers -n- Classics (OLD CARS TRUCKS,TRACTORS,BOATS,AIRPLANES , 82,555 photos, 3,830 members
- Carmageddon 14,169 photos, 931 members
- Motel & Hotel Signs (No postcards, please) 19,453 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 4,036 photos, 340 members
- *Landscapes of the West* 1,308 photos, 99 members
- Dunes 5,420 photos, 808 members
- The American Roadside 44,243 photos, 1,106 members
- New Mexico Signs 2,188 photos, 121 members
- Utah 38,194 photos, 2,137 members
- Rural Darkness 9,063 photos, 931 members
- US Highway - Route 66 = The Mother Road Route66 15,974 photos, 902 members
- Quality Abstracts 8,664 photos, 7,059 members
- Lost America 7,396 photos, 182 members
- Gas Pumps & Stations 7,166 photos, 1,053 members
- TRUCKS-OLD-RUSTY-TRUCKS! 6,827 photos, 751 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 2,738 photos, 169 members
- Petroglyph National Monument & Volcano Park. Albuquerque 209 photos, 27 members
- The Look of Southwest 15,474 photos, 901 members
- Albuquerque Signs 1,256 photos, 109 members
- Any Derelict Building 74,266 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