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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 (16,416)
Contacts (304)
Groups (50)
- Group with Ҽxperience 702,007 photos, 126,370 members
- Albuquerque/Santa Fe Social 6,793 photos, 580 members
- ALL CATS ^..^ NO PEOPLE -- See our new icon for May and June 210,597 photos, 26,128 members
- Your Best Shot 2010 19,990 photos, 24,439 members
- Only In Albuquerque 362 photos, 65 members
- Abq. ATSF Rail Yard/Sheds 638 photos, 59 members
- Death of the Service Station 2,143 photos, 373 members
- Ghost Towns 18,017 photos, 2,582 members
- Train Stations - the older the better 20,220 photos, 2,641 members
- Texas -The Lone Star State - Tejas - TX - All The Great Views 59,110 photos, 2,125 members
- Rail Runner of New Mexico 281 photos, 38 members
- New Mexico In Black And White 442 photos, 45 members
- Route 66 New Mexico 315 photos, 13 members
- New Mexico Film Photographers 204 photos, 29 members
- VINTAGE CAFE SIGNS ONLY ! 1,759 photos, 574 members
- Decayed yet Hauntingly Beautiful 87,609 photos, 6,791 members
- Route 66 Albuquerque 1,005 photos, 92 members
- Western Decay 1,349 photos, 41 members
- Industrial Decay 99,732 photos, 8,477 members
- Rusty Cars 26,245 photos, 3,035 members
- Junkers -n- Classics (OLD CARS TRUCKS,TRACTORS,BOATS,AIRPLANES , 86,677 photos, 3,873 members
- Carmageddon 14,884 photos, 959 members
- Motel & Hotel Signs (No postcards, please) 20,535 photos, 1,395 members
- New Mexico Thunderstorms 985 photos, 187 members
- New Mexico State Fair/NM Expo 526 photos, 52 members
- abandoned new mexico 627 photos, 143 members
- NAM: The North American Monsoon 90 photos, 18 members
- Turquoise and Rust 281 photos, 116 members
- 50's and 60's Motels 4,238 photos, 350 members
- *Landscapes of the West* 1,261 photos, 96 members
- Dunes 5,610 photos, 848 members
- The American Roadside 47,713 photos, 1,143 members
- New Mexico Signs 2,230 photos, 125 members
- Utah 40,524 photos, 2,252 members
- Rural Darkness 9,384 photos, 940 members
- US Highway - Route 66 = The Mother Road Route66 16,795 photos, 937 members
- Quality Abstracts 8,846 photos, 7,083 members
- Lost America 8,337 photos, 187 members
- Gas Pumps & Stations 7,575 photos, 1,081 members
- TRUCKS-OLD-RUSTY-TRUCKS! 7,339 photos, 797 members
- Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 3,659 photos, 528 members
- Albuquerque BioPark 1,490 photos, 124 members
- Albuquerque Old Town 776 photos, 138 members
- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument 234 photos, 39 members
- Abandonded Gas Stations 3,610 photos, 663 members
- Enchanted Expanses - New Mexico Skies 2,866 photos, 176 members
- Petroglyph National Monument & Volcano Park. Albuquerque 217 photos, 28 members
- The Look of Southwest 16,203 photos, 941 members
- Albuquerque Signs 1,277 photos, 110 members
- Any Derelict Building 78,857 photos, 3,641 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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METAL_FIRECRACKER 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 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