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Isolation Photos

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My daughter Emma recently updated her website with some photographs and an essay on solitude. (Here’s a link to Emma’s website)
 
It prompted me to pull some isolation/solitude photos from my files.
 
Emma included both positive and negative aspects of the idea of solitude, “To show that feeling of isolation has many facets.” Where I, not so much. By negative I don’t necessarily mean depressing or morose, I’m just not focusing on a meditative or soothing solitude. I guess I am looking for people who look alone, even in situations where they might be surrounded by others.
 
I’ve always felt isolated. I remember recurring dreams from when I was three years old in San Diego and being able to flap my arms like wings and fly above all the people below. I could watch them from above (maybe a precursor to becoming a photographer, watching) but I was never noticed from below.
 
My photographs of these “isolated” people are perhaps a way for me to try to come to terms with my own form of isolation. Put it in perspective, if you will. Or maybe the photos are simply a way for me to connect somehow with these unknown, yet connected in some manner, brethren, whoever they may be.
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Lone elderly diner at Mill Valley, Calif., cafe
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Man near San Francisco Embarcadero fountain
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Cattle auction near Ghost Ranch, Northern New Mexico
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Lone bicyclist, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Nun, Jemez, New Mexico
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Man with cowboy hat sits outside Espanola, New Mexico, Walmart
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Alt Fashion, taken at Cedar Crest in the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Lone man waits for Fractal Foundation presentation in auditorium at New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico
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Man with guitar on back walks down Central Avenue, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Commuter on train, Detroit, Michigan
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Mother and infant, Los Angeles train station, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Espanola, New Mexico
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People on cell phones, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Isolated man peers out second story window somewhere in the midwest
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Elderly woman in San Francisco, Calif.
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San Francisco street scene. Waiting to cross the street.
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Accordion player, San Francisco, Calif.
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Comic Con Albuquerque
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Bus stop San Diego, Calif.
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San Francisco gay pride parade
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"Welcome to the Valley Hoopers" commune near Nelson, BC, Canada circa 1970s
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Chinatown, San Francisco
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Torrey Pines Beach, San Diego, California
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Normally when I think of isolation I immediately think of images with people, but when I encountered this small church that was used in an unnamed movie or TV program at Ghost Ranch in Northern New Mexico, I thought "isolation." It looks like it is in the middle of nowhere and the light snow falling added to the loneliness I wanted the image to reflect.

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    • Abiquiu Dam
    • Abiquiu Livestock Sale
    • Adjective Challenge
    • Aerial Photos
    • Aircraft - BW Portraits
    • Albuquerque Aquarium
    • Albuquerque Sunport Lowrider Show
    • Alt Fashion
    • Amish, Kalona, Iowa
    • Angel in Albuquerque
    • Astro Zombies Murals
    • Birds
    • Black and White Photos
    • Black Mesa, San Ildefonso Pueblo
    • Cabezon Peak
    • Car Portraits
    • Cell Phones
    • Cerro Pedernal
    • Chicano Park Murals
    • Children Portraits
    • Churches
    • Circus Behind the Scenes
    • Close Up Photos
    • Cloud Photos
    • Colors
    • Computers
    • Concorso Santa Fe
    • Contrast
    • Descansos
    • Design photographs in the style of Charles Sheeler
    • Detroit Street Photos
    • Dogs
    • Explora Albuquerque
    • Fisheye Lens Photos
    • Gay Pride Parade
    • Ghost Ranch
    • Goggles Sunglasses and Masks
    • Goofing Around with mime Mark Wenzel
    • Hats
    • Horizont Camera Panoramic Images
    • Humor
    • Industry
    • Infrared Photos
    • Infrared with a Leica M8 Camera
    • Insects
    • International Center of Photography
    • Isolated Trees
    • Isolation Photos
    • Juxtaposed
    • Lady of Guadalupe
    • Landscape Photos
    • Lomography Spinner 360
    • Lowriders
    • Lowrider Day Espanola, NM
    • Lowrider Show Story August 2012
    • Lowrider Summer
    • Lowriders: Vintage San Francisco Bay Area Show
    • Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
    • Matachines de Alcalde
    • Mirror Images
    • Moody, Dark, Mysterious Photos
    • Moon Photos
    • Moving Arts Espanola
    • Moving Landscapes
    • Murals in Espanola, New Mexico
    • New Mexico Press Association 2022 Award Winner
    • New Orleans Street Photography
    • NM Treasures 2023 Calendar Image
    • Northern New Mexico
    • Norteno Artist Portraits
    • Panoramic Photos
    • Photographers
    • Pic of the Day
    • Plants and Flowers
    • Portraits
    • Port of Portland
    • Portraits of Strangers
    • Published Favorites
    • Repetition in Photos
    • Road to Pedernal
    • San Francisco Chinatown
    • Santa Rosa de Lima Church Rluins
    • Shadows
    • Snow Photos
    • Still Life Photos
    • San Francisco Street Photos
    • Service People Portraits
    • Shadows
    • Stand Alone Photos
    • Storm and Rain Photos
    • Street Photography
    • Sunset / Sunrise Photos
    • Surplus Love
    • The Yin/Yang of Families
    • Trailer Landscapes
    • Trees
    • Urban Landscapes
    • Vintage Ford and Cadillac Manufacturing
    • Vintage - Pre -digital photos
    • Water
    • Widelux F6: First Roll
    • Widelux Panoramic Photos
    • Working
  • Selected Writing/Published
    • Agricultural Profile: Christopher Bassettt: Freshies of New Mexico Farm, Velarde, NM
    • Behind the Scenes at the Circus
    • ​​Book Review: "Orale! Lowrider: Custom Made in New Mexico"
    • Carlton, Oregon
    • Comic Con New Mexico
    • Crosswalk Painting
    • Cumbres Toltec
    • Day of the Dead, Albuquerque's Marigold Parade
    • Fog Smoke Haze in Photos
    • Gordon Tooley, Apple Guru
    • Indian Market Native Costumes
    • In Praise of Kit Lenses
    • In Praise of Manual Lenses
    • Instagram
    • Jeff Brock and Bombshell Betty
    • John Lea's Painted Truck
    • Kaleidoscope Photos
    • Light Quality
    • Luck in Photography
    • Luck in Photography vers 2.0
    • Luck in Photography vers 3.0
    • National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
    • Natural Dyeing with Glenna Dean
    • Pet Store Animal Photos
    • Photographing Lowriders
    • Resurrecting Film
    • Rio Arriba: A New Mexico County
    • Rocket Heads Jewelry
    • Scale in Photography
    • Shooting Into The Sun
    • Spanapalooza
    • Tibetan Monk Sand Painting
    • Timing in Photography
    • United Farm Workers
    • Variations on a Theme
    • Why I Take Photographs
    • WWII Reenactment
  • Archive